Quotes About Recollection

In that way you recall, suddenly, sharply, in daylight, a trace of a dream of the previous night--but even as you recall it, it begins to fade.

Laughter too depends upon memory—a memory of previous laughter. Dr.

Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself…

She could not testify against Zachary Lundt for she could not recall with any degree of accuracy, the sequence of events of the early hours of Sunday February 14, nor even herself during that time. It was like a movie where something has gone wrong with the film, images continue to flutter past, but dim, confused, out of focus.

No se puede ejercer la memoria hasta que uno se ha retirado de la fuente del recuerdo.

For Iris has learned that to experience a thing is not to know it, or even to have the power to remember it coherently.

Yet I remember little. Or nothing. A chloroformed handkerchief, perhaps; a stinging & burning sensation afterward, when required to make water—(as Nanny called it); ah, is it not distasteful, ugly—& too trifling to be recalled.)

No, I said. I didn't remember that. There was so much to remember, sometimes the best thing was to forget.

Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.

Esa noche volvieron a sucederse los sueños. ¿Por qué ese recordar intenso de tantas cosas? ¿Por qué no simplemente la muerte y no esa música tierna del pasado?

Their eyes met; neither would forget.

Why did happy memories fade and blur until one could scarcely recall them at all, while horrible memories seemed to retain their blinding clarity and painful sharpness?

There are no accidents in memory, for memory has its own reasons and its own logic. What I remember is what happened to me as I best recall it.

A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention, and

Henry James says somewhere that if you have to make notes on how a thing has struck you, it probably hasn't struck you. 8 Here is one thing that eventually struck me: March 19, 1938, a Saturday.

Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention...

It was the last nostalgia: that heShould understand.

The work of memory collapses time.

Mein Gedächtnis funktioniert wie ein Spinnennetz. Die unwichtigen Dinge - wie etwa den Wind - läßt es durch, aber die gefangenen Fliegen bleiben hängen und werden so lange gelagert, bis die Spinne Verstand sie benötigt und tilgt" (S. 398).

Sich daran zu erinnern, wo das Erinnerungsvermögen liegt, das kann einem auch nur in einem cerebralen Cortex passieren.

Do I situate myself in an environment that fosters recollection, that fosters calm, that allows me to see the value of things? Piles do not allow me to see the value of things. So what kind of space do I live in?

The Flasher of '04.

There are no memories in a bottle full of wine.