Quotes About Recollection

You may come back as soon as your senses have returned.

My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

The conscious mind is where we store our explicit, or declarative, memories. Therefore, declarative memories are memories that we can declare. They're the knowledge we've learned (termed semantic memories) and experiences we've had in this lifetime (episodic memories).

What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

In some instances, the accuracy of past-life memories can be objectively verified, sometimes with remarkable detail.

These handwritten words in the pages of my journal confirm that from an early age I have experienced each encounter in my life twice: once in the world, and once again on the page.

What was our life like? I almost don't remember now. Though I remember it, the space of time it occupied. And I remember it fondly.

At the end, one didn't remember life as a whole but as just a string of moments.

I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

I think...that I would rather recollect a life mis-spent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

Things you did. Things you never did. Things you dreamed. After a long time they run together.

Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it.

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.

That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.

I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.

Unless we remember we cannot understand

Also, that men fall into two classes--those who forget views and those who remember them, even in small rooms.