Quotes About Recollection

and I remember . . . the kisses, the taste of him, the feeling of him inside me.

First came a delightful thrill, as of something very pleasant; then a horrible remembrance.

Bygone troubles are a pleasure to talk about.

Once in a while I get an email from someone I have met briefly. "You may not remember me," these emails often begin, the hope to be remembered expressed by the acceptance of having already been forgotten.

To be forgotten was a defeat. To be doomed to remember someone was a defeat, too.

This is like deja vu all over again.

It was clear that he didn't remember me from one day to the next. The note clipped to his sleeve simply informed him that it was not our first meeting, but it could not bring back the memory of the time we had spent together.

because my memory had caught up with the world that had gone away.

Non gli dispiaceva raccontare di sé, ma era spaventoso come l'evocazione dei ricordi servisse solo a rendere la sua esistenza sempre più ambigua e incerta. [...] la parte di ricordanze che aveva la funzione di controllo e di indagine non andava forse accumulandosi di nascosto come letame?" pp.1338-9, Yukio Mishima, Romanzi e Racconti, La casa di Kyoko, volume 1, i Meridiani

Oamenii din "?inutul Rodiei" sunt foarte înÈ›elepÈ›i; È™tiu c? exist? doar dou? roluri pentru fiinÈ›ele din aceast? lume: cei care È›in minte È™i cei care sunt È›inuÈ›i minte.

Come svanisce velocemente il ricordo delle azioni, a paragone con il ricordo dei sentimenti!»

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

But they're not really paper dolls," Melanie said. "And I don't really play with them, not like moving them around and dressing them up and everything. They're just sort of a record of a game I play. I make up a family and then I find people who look like them in magazines and catalogues, just so I'll remember them better.

Minnen är som bomber.

'Thank you power' is writing down the moments that are good in your life so that you can go back and reflect on them - so you've got this sort of repository of good stuff in your past.

They talked in the shorthand of old friends and shared memories.

You must be jesting. What happened down there is one of the most mortifying moments of my life. Why on earth would I point it out to you if you'd forgotten all about it?" His eyes widened. "Forgotten about it? Forgotten about it? Sweetheart, I have replayed those moments in my mind a hundred times, at least.

uno no puede recordar lo que nunca ha aprendido.

Of course he could still conjure up the old faces. But they didn't return on their own anymore. In order to see images of Channa or Suddhodana, he would ask to see them. "Learn to use your memories," he told the younger bikkhus. "Don't let them use you.

uno no sabe que tiene alzheimer cuando olvida dónde puso las llaves del coche, sino cuando olvida para qué son.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

He who receives a favour must retain a recollection of it for all time to come; but he who confers should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid and ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred on him, and to talk of it, is little different from a reproach.

All knowledge is but remembrance.

Memory is not a simple replay. The bits of information that we recover from the past are often influenced by our knowledge, beliefs and feelings.