Quotes About Recollection

Once someone dreams a dream, it can't just drop out of existence. But if the dreamer can't remember it, what becomes of it?

Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from?

People often work hard to obtain information they already have

you get when you can't think of a word that feels as if it's right on the tip of your tongue. For most people the relief they experience upon finding it is almost physical. They sink back in their

On such ventures as these one is inclined to forget much, as one forgets a dream.

we live with those retrievals from childhood that coalesce and echo throughout our lives

Wherever Hana is now, in the future, she is aware of the line of movement Kip's body followed out of her life. Her mind repeats it. The path he slammed through among them. When he turned into a stone of silence in their midst. She recalls everything of that August day— what the sky was like, the objects on the table in front of her going dark under the thunder.

forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Grof did extensive research trying to correlate his patients' recollections of their birth experience on LSD with contemporaneous reports from medical personnel and parents. He concluded that with the help of LSD many people can indeed recall the circumstances of their birth, especially when it was a difficult one.)

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and, honestly, I may as well just start it again now, because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

I have a phenomenal memory. I remember every single thing that anybody said to me, ever did to me, who was nice to me and who was not nice to me.

I really don't remember my first meeting with Arif Sir.

When it comes to memories of that iconic type, memories that are burned into you, I have maybe ten or so from my childhood. I'm a bad rememberer of situations. I forget almost everything as soon as it happens.

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

was not so much how memory works as how difficult it is to understand how it works.

A Memory It came back to me not in the way a thing might be returned to its rightful owner but like dance music traveling in the dark from one end of a lake to the other.

Remembrance of things past, I do that all the time.

The first job that we have today is putting yesterday aside to be remembered later.

He laughed out loud. He was trying to remember if his memory had been altered. The epitome of irony and futility.

The fact he has some kind of bond with you is quite extraordinary, she [Deep Throat's daughter] said. He doesn't remember Ed Miller and other FBI guys. He remembers J. Edgar Hoover. Well, I thought, Hoover and me.

Trump seemed not to remember his own decision because he did not ask about it. He had no list—in his mind or anywhere else—of tasks to complete.

Don't forget. Just don't forget.

Me pregunto si la identidad personal consiste precisamente en la posesión de ciertos recuerdos que nunca se olvidan

Strange smiled. Or rather he twisted something in his face and Sir Walter supposed that he was smiling. Sir Walter could not really recall what his smile had looked like before.