Quotes About Recollection

Augustine's insight that emotion dims in memory, however, is overwhelmingly true of our episodic memories. The cooling of the emotions that belong to such recollections is built into the nature of this kind of memory, because it is quickly turned into narrative.

Augustine's insight that emotion dims in memory, however, is overwhelmingly true of our episodic memories. The cooling of the emotions that belong to such recollections is built into the nature of this kind of memory, because it is quickly turned into narrative. The raw affective material of memories is restructured and then told as stories from a remove.

We are all, to one degree or another, made of what we call "memory", not only the bits and pieces of time visible to us in pictures that have hardened with our repeated stories, but also the memories we embody and don't understand.

In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later.

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

I love that the idea of examining memory, and the way memory is edited was made more interesting because it was being filtered through a writer.

Scent is the strongest tie to memory.

I love you. Never forget that. Never forget...me.

She did not need now to forget what she had seen; and, not needing to forget it—thus are our brains fashioned—she was able to forget it.

Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.

I hadn't so much forgot as I couldn't bring myself to remember. Other things were more important.

I'll remember the things you said to me and I'll cherish them always.

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You realize that if he doesn't know who you are, he won't be able to remember who you were.

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Do you ever sense a little silver sliver of sadness around your happiest memories? I'm not sure I know what you mean... I do. There's something about remembering that just isn't the same as the real thing. No matter how happy it makes you feel. When you remember something, you have to recognize that the moment will never happen again.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember? I used to remember...but I forgot!

Funny, how once you touched off a memory, it was like pulling out a stitch—all the others kept unraveling

We are born and have our being in a place of memory. We chart our lives by everything we remember from the mundane moment to the majestic. We know ourselves through the art and act of remembering. Memories offer us a world where there is no death, where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection

An important verity about knowledge is that the brain works most effectively with consciously retained information. We more easily remember what we want to recall later. When we feed our fourteen billion brain cells with information that will enrich us and help others, we are really learning to Think Big.

Memory,' wrote the Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury, is a process of organizing what to forget.

I could imagine it in a way that felt like remembering

Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.