Quotes About Recollection

Pen told the tale, again; the repetition was beginning to seem more like the memory of a memory than the thing itself.

Intentamos hacer un pequeño Natches, ¿recuerdas?

instead of trying to forget, he found himself trying to remember.

She had not remembered then what she remembers now, a memory like something buried in river silt that finally works free and rises to the surface...

An image came back to him with such vividness that it might have been framed before him in glass

I have no recollection of that ever happening.

la memoria es traidora, débil, mentirosa.

Because my memory is a lie." "Mine, too. All memories are lies. We all invent the past. Do you think my parents were really the way I remember them today?

nosotros mismos, porque nuestra identidad reside en la memoria, en el relato de nuestra biografía

I think,' said Leo [Walton], 'that he [William, 'Tiger'] must have fallen in love with you, he certainly remembered you with the eye of love.' ['Skelmerton']

He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true.

The past was filling the room like a tide of whispers.

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

I have to hurry up and write them down before I forget. I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

When I'd put enough distance between us, it occurred to me that I was probably the only person in the history of the world who has ever recalled Sh?nagon in a strip joint in Texas. I liked that

Information like this had a life of its own, and once it entered her mind, she couldn't unknow or forget it.

My throat clogged up like an old drain with these happy memories.

The tree was past and the paper is present, and yet paper still remembers holding itself upright and altogether. Like a dream, it remembers its sap.

Sometimes you can remember everything about an old friend, down to minor details about his behaviour, but for the life of you you can't picture his face.

Battle day and night against the guile of oblivion...

For me, nothing is more dangerous than recollection. Once I have recalled some life-situation it ceases to exist. People say that separation helps to revive love. That is quite true, but it revives it purely in a poetic way. A life in recollection is the most perfect imaginable; memory gives you your fill more abundantly than all of reality and has a security which no reality possesses.

There is a loss that is eternally irreparable; thus eternity—even more frightful—far from wiping out the recollection of what is lost, is an eternal recollection of what is lost!

Wiederholung und Erinnerung sind die gleiche Bewegung, nur in entgegengesetzter Richtung; denn dasjenige, woran man sich erinnert, ist gewesen, wird rückwärts wiederholt, während die eigentliche Wiederholung eine Erinnerung in vorwärtiger Richtung ist.

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.