Quotes About Recollection

Memories do not fade even if you do not keep them in mind all the time. They lay deep inside of me, they're always with me. Memories never end.

even if they could remember, which I doubt. Once they're sober we'll do

I believe the true function of age is memory. I'm recording as fast as I can.

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports.

I had a lot of those memories clicking before me like projector slides in the dark. Lots of pictures, smells and sounds flashing in and out.

I remember a time when smoke filled the house. Not coughing smoke but smoke from a woman's smooth-voiced singing, with piano, bass, and drums. All together these sounds made smoke. Uncle Darnell would say, "You can't remember that. You were two. Three, maybe." But I do. I still see, hear, and feel bits and flashes. The sounds of musical smoke.

Again with the amnesia. This is getting old.

Telling them the story of my life as I knew it (i.e., the last four days). Good times, good times.

The radio tape puts you right back in the original time and place when you first heard the songs. You are there, my friend.

Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like to forget them.

Look through the reels of your memory and embrace them with gratitude.

The brain forgets much, but the lower back remembers everything.

You can be sad recalling sad times, but if you really want to be sad, recall happy times.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

What we cannot remember, we must rediscover.

Daily Law: Ask someone who recalls your childhood what they remember about your interests. Get reacquainted with those early passions. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

All things are known, Tallis, but most things are forgotten.

memory expanded what it did not shrink.

I am not so big a fool as that, boy. Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget. Morgase

I fought...I fought and I fought...until I...couldn't remember any more.

The past cannot remember the past. The future can't generate the future.

These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you" (John 14:25–26).