Quotes About Recollection

My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.

I DO know lots of things that I don't remember, and remember lots of things that I don't know. It's so with every educated person.

Più divento vecchio, più vividamente ricordo cose che non sono avvenute.

and when I waked up in the morning, drat it all, I had forgot what my name was.

The first meeting I really remember with the good doctor was when I was starting to be able to speak English again and making a brave attempt to regain some of my dignity. Trying to be very sane, I went up to him and asked if he was my doctor. He said he didn't think so. You're Dr. Dale, aren't you? Why, Mark, of course. I didn't recognize you with clothes on. He had a talent for saying just the right thing.

Say something enough times and you never forget it.

THE FILES OF RECOLLECTION* * * Oh, yes, I definitely remember him The sky was murky and deep like quicksand. There was a young man parceled up in barbed wire, like a giant crown of thorns. I untangled him and carried him out. High above the earth, we sank together, to our knees. It was just another day, 1918.

How strange it is, sometimes, which conversations or events stays with us while so much else melts as fast as April snow.

I remember every word ever said to me. That was a lie. Who would want that? Most of it I delete from permanent memory.

To remember a day would take a day. To remember a year would take a year.

It is impossible," he said, "to put a label upon remembered feelings. They are colored too much by all our subsequent experiences.

Ich erinnerte mich, wie der Baronet mir erzählt hatte, dass

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied

How are you, Watson?" said he, cordially. "I should never have known you under that moustache

I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

says the brave and tearful mother hustled over from subconscious central casting when recollection fails.

Nádja was off again, in rare and wondrous form, bewitching her audience with another recollection, exquisitely told, satisfying in its construction, lyrical and glamorous, slightly improbably but nowhere near impossible. And John did not doubt its probability. Lives like Nádja's must exist; he had read enough to know this was true.

That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

That you should write down valuable ideas that occur to you as soon as possible goes without saying: we sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought. Thoughts, however, come not when we but when they want. On

We sometimes forget even what we have done, so how much more what we have thought.

Exigir que um indivíduo conserve na sua mente tudo o que já leu é como querer que ele ainda traga dentro de si tudo o que já comeu na vida.

Smells, like music, hold memories. She breathed deep, and bottled it up for posterity.

On another occasion

When I was ten years old, I realized I'd been kidnapped as a toddler. Of course, I would have to have been a fairly dim child to miss the clues. Great big pink-elephant clues, trumpeting and lumbering and shitting through the house, ignored by everyone except me.