Quotes About Recollection

Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

He had a way of anticipating memories he particularly didn't want to have.

It was strange to wonder what she had really forgotten.

What is memory but a story about how we have lived?

How do you remember this stuff? But why had she forgotten? That was the real question.

Recollection could be more powerful and more perilous than experience itself.

At this instant, Alessandro was electrified, as if lightning had struck the telephone wire or Saint Elmo's fire had filled the room, for part of the dream that he could not recall had come back to him with full force.

feelings and times long gone come and live again, or basic truths hard to keep in view return.

A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.

I shall try to conjure up each of the sentences engraved in my memory which were either so unbearable or so comforting to me at the time that the mere thought of them today engulfs me in a wave of horror or sweetness.

Memory plays tricks. Memory is another word for story, and nothing is more unreliable." ? Ann-Marie MacDonald, Fall on Your Knees

Doch die Erinnerung spielt uns Streiche. Erinnern iat ein anderes Wort für Erfinden, und nichts ist unzuverlässiger.

Frances is feeling a familiar yet unnameably old feeling. One she hadn't known was ever hers to forget. Happiness.

The danger of memory is that it can turn anyone into a prophet.

One's first memories are often vicarious: one is told that one did something or was involved in something; one dramatizes it and folds the image falsely into the annals of the truly remembered.

For a brief second, for an inexpressibly curtailed efflux of time, so short that its duration could be appreciated only in recollection, being immediately engulfed at the moment of birth, I was conscious of a sensation I had never before encountered: an awareness that Stringham was perhaps a trifle embarrassed.

I could not remember the story with sufficient clarity.

Bir deneyimi tekrar canland?rd?kça, onu tekrar kullanma olas?l???n?z artar.

Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.

Memory is the scribe of the soul

Los animales reciben de la naturaleza la facultad de conocer por los sentidos. Pero este conocimiento en unos no produce la memoria; al paso que en otros la produce. Y así los primeros son simplemente inteligentes; y los otros son más capaces de aprender que los que no tienen la facultad de acordarse.

memories of emotional events are stamped on running water

Ja see, mõtles Alvin, mida ta nüüd nägi, ei olnud lihtsalt mälestus. See oli midagi keerukamat - see oli mäluseadme mälestus.

Siempre hay tres partes de un recuerdo, la tuya, la de los demás, y la verdad, que está en algún sitio en medio de las otras dos.