Quotes About Recollection

My moment of infamy was a long time ago.

Amazing how one's organic memory could cling so tightly to the worst moments of a life, and lose everything that surrounded them.

Everyone else had forgotten, or was forbidden from remembering, which came to the same thing. Dust had never been human, but he remembered.

Perfidious candle-flicker," he said in a hush. "Remember me.

Shared breath brought tumbling memories, salty bittersweet jewels.

He remembered more of being human than the humans did.

Oh, human memory is shorter than I thought.

Sebastien was already leaning in, drawn by the enticing heat of blood, when he recollected himself and jerked back.

I was too exhausted with memories and the volatile tears that memories seemed to drag from me at every opportunity now.

Perhaps I had been dreaming, processing and refining old memories in the way you're supposed to process and refine newer ones.

But I should never write what had happened down. One's nature is to forget, and one ought to go by that. Memory is quite unbearable enough, but even so it leaves out quite a lot.

Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.

Recordar puede ser tan doloroso cómo no recordar.

January seems like a year ago.

I momenti più crudeli vengono offuscati e distorti dal ripetersi dell'atto di ricordare, che per lei comportava il non ricordare esattamente come si era sentita perché il trauma era ormai assorbito: anch'esso era diventato un ricordo, privo della capacità che aveva di aggredirla all'improvviso.

My memories are not books. They are only stories that I have been over so many times in my head that I don't know from one day to the next what's remembered and what's made up.

say—every morning he said this—"Lucy B, Lucy B, how did we meet? I thank God we

That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind

Als ik op mijn geheugen af moet gaan heeft een halve eeuw Indië korter geduurd dan een willekeurige valkenjacht op Het Loo, het bezoek van Adeline Renselaar en haar feestcommissie langer dan een weekeinde in Scheveningen. De archieven van je geest kennen geen index, hooguit een paar steekwoorden.

For many months he had occasional fits of recollection, both cold and hot; but the bridge of time, gradually lengthening, made those dreadful and delicious images grow more and more indistinct, till at last they all passed into that wonderland which a youth looks back upon in amazement, not knowing why this used to be a symbol of terror or that of joy.

Te acuerdas de la María Fernanda? Asiente Raposo, guasón. —Nos acordamos yo y media España.

Cualquier hombre cabal puede escoger la forma y el lugar donde morir, pero nadie elige las cosas que recuerda. Capitán Alatriste

cualquier hombre cabal puede escoger la forma y el lugar donde morir, pero nadie elige las cosas que recuerda.

He was the only witness who claimed he could positively identify me, because i "had spent weekends at his house." But he didn't know the color of my eyes.