Quotes About Recollection

We need to talk—both to remember and to forget.

information or had a chance to review it, as there's an excellent possibility that he'll say "no" to at least one of those questions, which gives him an easy exit ramp out of the encounter. The way to avoid this is to simply ask him if the conversation "rings a bell," to which he will almost always reply with a yes.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra

Pero de eso hacía demasiado, tanto que ya ni recordaba los matices, y veía las escenas como fotografías inmóviles sujetas con alfileres en su mente. Sabía que eran alfileres porque le dolían las punzadas de cada imagen, de cada recuerdo, como si aún lo llevara prendido de verdad en algún rincón de su alma.

Contava agora tão-somente com um mundo de lembranças, nele recolhida, refugiada em recordações, cinzas com que apagar a brasa do desejo vivo.

Viva mi Partido, carajo! No sé en donde puse la llave con que abro en donde muero con retraso. Perdón señores, ya recuerdo. Nadie parece que me llamo.

Una vez escuché en un documental dedicado al funcionamiento del cerebro que en ocasiones recordamos para olvidar. Pasamos una y otra vez sobre los surcos del mismo disco para borrarlos. Como si la repetición eliminara la memoria en lugar de preservarla.

Man's memory shapes Its own Eden within.

The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place- Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.

If there is any substitute for love, it is memory.

No one can yet tell me why I am able to forget what I wrote in articles and reviews that I once felt passionate about, and yet am able to recall the entire lyrics of Some Enchanted Evening

Once upon a time, and a very good time it was, though it wasn't my time, or your time, or anyone else's time...

Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

For one thing, people tend to remember how they felt at the end of an emotional episode rather than how they felt about the whole episode.

So war es damals! Alles, was wuchs, brauchte viel Zeit zum Wachsen; und alles, was unterging, brauchte lange Zeit, um vergessen zu werden. Aber alles, was einmal vorhanden gewesen war, hatte seine Spuren hinterlassen, und man lebte dazumal von den Erinnerungen, wie man heutzutage lebt von der Fähigkeit, schnell und nachdrücklich zu vergessen.

Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.

People have short memories, he said, especially when bad things are concerned. People tend to forget, he said, but you won't forget.

Already she meant everything to him but he'd completely forgotten her name.

By keeping a record of my experiences I live my life twice over. The past returns to me. The future is always with me. (Wednesday 7 April 1824)

Strange how deeply they reside and how one memory pulls out the next like links in a chain, until at times you find that even the subtlest thoughts you had decades ago are sill hidden somewhere inside of you.

Vivid memories only exist to influence future events

I don't remember everything about my life, but I'm very fortunate to have a group of friends I can rely on - they fill in the blanks.

My life is mine to remember.

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.