Quotes About Recollection

Do you remember Italy?

O Reitor veio em auxílio dos dois sunningtonianos [Maurice e Chapman]. Disse ao seu jovem primo [Risley]: - Estás a ser insensato quanto à memória. Confudes aquilo que é importante com aquilo que marca. Sem dúvida que o Chapman e o Hall [Maurice] se lembrarão sempre que te conheceram. ----------------------------------------------------- You confuse what's important with what's impressive. P. 35, MAURICE, E.M. FORSTER

Time passes, but memories linger.

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

Let it be admitted at once, mournful as the admission is, that every instinct in his intelligence went out at first to greet the new light. It had hardly done so, when a recollection of the opening chapter of 'Genesis' checked it at the outset.

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.

El deseo es el recuerdo del placer, el miedo es el recuerdo del dolor" Cuentos para adultos infantiles

y Aráoz ya había aprendido que el miedo es una excelente llave para guardar cosas en la memoria.

Three things my daddy tried to learn me. 'Son', he always said, 'remember these three precepts and you can't go wrong. One, never eat at a place called Mom's. Two, never play cards with a man named Doc.' 'That's only two.' 'I can never recollect the third, and that's what worries me.

I think you remember everything ... you just can't bring it to mind all the time.

Do you know me?

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

Thanksgiving is possible only for those who take time to remember; no one can give thanks who has a short memory.

Some folks never exaggerate — they just remember big.

This do in remembrance of me.

Memories cartwheel out of her head & tumble across the floor.

Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.

Where do memories go once we've lost our ability to summon them? It

it was as if these memories had been hibernating in him, not dead but merely dormant, weathering out, and now they stumbled out of their thousand dens.

a book—is a resting place for the memories of people who have lived before. A way for the memory to stay fixed after the soul has traveled on.

Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated." from "Village 113

Memory gallops, then checks up and veers unexpectedly; to memory, the order of occurrence is arbitrary. Winkler was still on an airplane, hurtling north, but he was also pushing farther back, sinking deeper into the overlaps, to the years before he even had a daughter, before he had even dreamed of the woman who would become his wife.

Memory is a house with ten thousand rooms; it is a village slated to be inundated.