Quotes About Recollection

If it upsets you better not recall it." --from The Chalk Garden

If it upsets you better not recall it.

We, all of us, wish to rescue, via memory, each fragment of life that suddenly comes back to us, however unworthy, however painful it may be. And the only way to do this is to set it down in writing.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. —Gabriel García Márquez

We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.

There is power in remembrance, recalling, and memorial celebration.

when Melanchthon recalled it, although, as we have said, he was not yet in Wittenberg when it happened, and was really only recounting the recollections of others who had been there. So when he did, he was speaking in the way so many of us do when remembering things: we aren't telling an untruth but conflating things in a way that is not perfectly and literally accurate, specifically to make a larger point, and, as good fiction does, to tell a greater truth.

We know that immediately upon entering the monastery, Luther was lent one that was bound in red leather, for he recollected this often in his later years. It seems that Luther did not receive the book lightly, for he not only read it but almost devoured it. He read it over and over until he was inordinately and perhaps even peculiarly familiar with it. This would of course have everything to do with the events of his future and the future itself.

We were happy. I know I ought to be able to tell you about it, yet I cannot, for while a nightmare will stay with you like hunger, when you awake from a happy dream, you have no memory of it.

No home-cooked food, no matter how delicious, can match the power of bringing people together in misty-eyed recollection of industrially produced food.

Flavours - these memories generated backwards through our nose - are all learned.

What you taste as a child is still there in your adult brain, even if you haven't thought of it for years.

Every bite is a memory and the most powerful memories are the first ones.

I remember everything, Trent. Not just the bad, but the good, too.

it. Oh, crap. He'd forgotten all about Ellen, but

Either you understood impulsive rage, and the memory failures that sometimes go with it, or you didn't. That was it.

Memory, of all the powers of the mind, is the most delicate and frail.

It was as though it had already happened; predicting it felt like recalling a traumatic event.

Everyone rehearses their recollections, believing that the more often an event is remembered, the closer we come to its reality. This is not always true. Most people tell a version of the past, and then either stick to or embellish it.

Che strano, Creta evocava i ricordi. Come una macchina del tempo, la sua antichità severa esumava immagini e sentimenti dal passato. Ogni momento sembrava rapportarsi a qualcosa che era successo anni prima.

the enduring human need to be remembered.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.

Creditors have better memories than debtors.

The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.