Quotes About Recollection

Plastic tries to remember a fur-losing accident, but it must have slipped her mind.

It was only I who had forgotten how well we knew each other.

the familiar and nostalgic colors and smells, tastes, and places in our memories.

I accidentally skipped Sotaro.

If you want someone to be ignored then build a life-size bronze statue of them and stick it in the middle of town. It doesn't matter how great you were, it'll always take an unfunny drunk with climbing skills to make people notice you.

Recalling "Love Games," she returned to the present with a jolt and glanced at the set in time to find the show over for the day. She'd missed it!

Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory.

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

It's surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Leonora liked to think of her life as calm of mind, all passion spent, or, more rarely, as emotion recollected in tranquillity.

The lines on Rugby Chapel…I wish I could remember some of them now, but English Literature stopped at Wordsworth when I was up at Oxford, and somehow one doesn't remember things so well that one read since.

The turnings of thought" (citta-v?tti) refers to the totality of mental processes—conscious, subconscious, and hyperconscious—not simply to the faculties of intellect, recollection, or emotion.

Many who lived through the next thirty days of mounting combat, agony, and terror were to remember the sound of endless, repetitious masculine singing as the worst torment of the invasion.

As Socrates said, "True learning is remembering.

You forget the things you want to remember and remember the things you want to forget.

Nobel Prize–winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman and his colleagues have shown that what we remember about the pleasurable quality of our past experiences is almost entirely determined by two things: how the experiences felt when they were at their peak (best or worst), and how they felt when they ended. This "peak-end" rule of Kahneman's is what we use to summarize the experience, and then we rely on that summary later to remind ourselves of how the experience felt.

It is always through arbitrary combinations that experience enslaves the memory.

You: Why did you pick my first name? Your dad: I don't remember. You: I see. Can you give me an example of something else you can't remember? Your dad: Uh . . . what? You: Did you like the sound of my name? Your dad: Yes. Your name rhymes with platypus, and that has always been one of our favorite animals.

It is easier to die than to remember.

No actor ever forgets a role, so I should have realized something was wrong.

I have never liked the memoir form because I tend to think that memory fictionalizes anyway. Once you claim that you are writing a narrative purely from memory, you are already in the realm of fiction.

I do not recall ever seeing Spirit perform live.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

My police record says I went to Panama City, but I don't recall it.