Quotes About Recollection

There is nothing so momentary as a sporting achievement, and nothing so lasting as the memory of it.

Given the nature of the mind, we'll consider the dreams of sleep to be the past, never quite accurate in recollection, always made to serve our desires (except when haunting us for our sins). And the wakeful present . . . well, it, too, holds its dangers.

The female memory defies explanation.

The wound healed and the pain receded from me just as memories do, like landmarks on a distant, foggy shore.

He looked back at the house and at all the buildings around it, searching for landmarks that would fix the place in his mental map.

I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.

Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.

In a long story like 'Weathercraft,' it becomes kind of convoluted. It can become perhaps difficult to remember what led up to whatever point you're at. I worried a little bit about people being able to keep the shape of the story in their heads while they were reading it, and not wonder how they got wherever they were.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.

I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone.

I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.

Memory is very important, the memory of each photo taken, flowing at the same speed as the event. During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late.

I remember swallowing my tooth up in a high chair, but I definitely don't remember the first time I played bass.

I really love that song. I love when people cover songs that are familiar but have been kind of forgotten about. So when you play it, it takes people back to a certain place. That's what I wanted for 'Torn.'

According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands.

But we only have one path across the mire of remembrance in general.

Things that were hard to bear are sweet to remember.

Corpul are memoria senza?iilor tot a?a cum creierul are memoria imaginilor, carnea stocheaz? impresiile tot a?a cum encefalul stocheaz? trecutul... Corpul isi poate aminti.

On se souvient de rien, et puisqu'on oublie tout, rien c'est bien mieux que tout.

Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.

I can't remember the names of all the clubs we went to.

The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten.