Quotes About Recollection

I can see all the stories of my life. I can pick and choose from among them.

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories-points in time which time itself cannot erase.

She might have forgotten names and faces and people and events, but she hadn't forgotten emotions.

Smells could bring a person back clearer than pictures even could.

Oh, sounds were what brought the past alive most clearly!

Same for the photos on the facing page: two little girls crammed into an armchair with a puppy, and a baby whose vast bouffant christening gown seemed to be wearing him rather than the other way around. There were no captions. Once the subjects' identities must have seemed so obvious; it hadn't occurred to the album's creator that the time would come when no one alive remembered them.

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

It helps to be with people who remember you, and who still think about you.

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

I don't remember writing most of these posts.

People don't remember what they read, what they hear, or even what they see. If they're lucky, people remember what they do, but they're not very good at that either.

She said that room up there is a remembering room and when she is up there remembering all those things fill up the room and when the room is too full they fly out the window.

sturdy five-foot-ten frame—but that was in another country, and alas… "What's that you've got in your hand?" he snapped at me. I glanced down at the piece of paper

One listened and one remembered. I listened as best I could, but there were no hooks in my head to hang much of it on.

I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?

If you don't like the things you remember, then all you have to do is change the memories. Instead of remembering the bad things, remember what happened immediately before.

And it's not the good stuff that I recall. No. It's the most traumatic shit that plays in the 3D IMAX Theater of My Mind.

There are always three sides to every memory…yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two

There are always three sides to every memory….yours, theirs, and the truth, which lies somewhere in between the two" - Acheron

He would remember their kiss forever. She wouldn't recall him at all.' (Wulf)

Looking repeatedly into the past, you do not necessarily become fascinated with your own life, but rather with the phenomenon of memory.

Pictures of my life stretch back into what must have been my very earliest childhood. ... They are not movies, then, nor are they talkies, but they are quite distinctly feelies.

Tell me of a happy memory, Zarek. One thing in your life that was good. (Astrid) You. (Zarek)

Sometimes, when there's a video montage. I'm thinking, 'That's my life. Oh, my God, I did that.' Yeah, it's amazing.