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Quotes About Recollection

Me pides algo terrible: que me recuerde a mí misma cuando ya me había olvidado. Para sobrevivir en mi reino de sombras había cerrado la puerta a la memoria.
~ Elena Garro
En ese instante retrocedían a un lugar sin lugar, sin espacio, sin luz. Solo le quedaba el recuerdo del peso de las catedrales sobre sus cuerpos sin cuerpo. Perdió su otra memoria y perdió también el privilegio de la luz asombrosa. —
~ Elena Garro
Han pasado tres años, imposible revivirlo. -Para poder olvidar, primero hay que recordar.
~ Elena Poniatowska
All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~ Elias Canetti
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
~ Elias Canetti
After all, God is God because he remembers.
~ Elie Wiesel
For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.
~ Elie Wiesel
There are certain books that one remembers together with the material circumstances of reading: how long it took, the time of year, the color of the cover.
~ Elif Batuman
Nothing is ever more appreciated than when it is remembered.
~ Anthony Paolucci
Sometimes it is better to imagine the past than to remember it.
~ Anthony Shadid
cryptomnesia (lit. hidden memory) – that although he had lost all conscious recollection of Binet's work, it had none the less borne fruit in his personal unconscious.
~ Anthony Stevens
What about the way he tried to raise his arm while looking at Jeff? Did he remember that? What had he been trying to do? Signal? Beckon? Acknowledge? Thank? Even if everything that had happened at the beach was a blur, or a blank, Jeff had no doubt that somewhere in that man lingered a remnant of that canceled gesture.
~ Antoine Wilson
Gli emblemi potevano essere facilmente rimossi, ma la memoria e l'affetto erano più difficili da cancellare.
~ Antonia Fraser
De toda la memoria, solo vale el don preclaro de evocar los sueños.
~ Antonio Machado
Tal vez las cosas han de ser primero soñadas para fijarse en la memoria.
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
But he didn't have to invoke her, she was a constant, secret presence in his memory
~ Antonio Munoz Molina
Io ne serbo un ricordo indimenticabile, e così nitido, così dettagliato come possono darlo solo le cose vissute davvero nell'immaginazione.
~ Antonio Tabucchi
The past is a chatty companion, I can tell you.
~ Ari Berk
He was beginning to feel his head swim a bit. It all came to this, a glance, a word, a face … everyone he knew was, most of the time, merely a recollection. Then a thought fell on him. Ghosts. Maybe we're all ghosts anyway, just as soon as the moment's passed.
~ Ari Berk
El desierto] que parece recordar de todo lo que le ha pasado, que recuerda y que termina por destruir todo lo que le pasa.
~ Ariel Dorfman
De bloem van de eeuwige jeugd', mompelt hij. Er dringen zich meer herinneringen aan hem op, ook aangename. In het moeras van zijn geheugen zitten ook mooie herinneringen verstopt. Als je je geluk kunt herinneren, dan heeft het bestaan.
~ Arnon Grunberg
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
~ Gary Wolf
Most people ask me questions based on a previous interview. That's not an interview. It's like they're just saying my quotes back to me.
~ Kirsten Dunst
I don't remember anything about '93. I remember going to some Copper World Classic races. I probably had to have been 4 or 5 around then. I probably mostly remember it because of my mom's pictures that she takes all the time.
~ Kyle Larson