273 Quotes About Remembering

Recollection could be more powerful and more perilous than experience itself.

I don’t remember his face or the place we ate. I only remember how he grabbed my hand and his voice when he spoke of his dad.

He was on her mind but she doesn't let anyone stay for too long.

without our memories, growth and formation simply wander into oblivion

For this brief moment, he was the anchor and I was the boat caught in my sea of doubt and despair until we were back in his house where everything seemed to be so ordinary.

There is nothing one can miss about a person they see on the daily, so, even if it hurts them, let them miss you.

We enshrine things to memory very differently than we experience them in real time. The psychologist Daniel Kahneman has coined a couple of terms to make the distinction. He talks about the "experiencing self" versus the "remembering self.

You know the saying a rolling stone gathers no moss? I'm the opposite. I've gathered too much, and when one thing happens, it brings up everything else that's ever been similar to it. I don't just feel things once and then move on. I fell them over and over again, and the only new thing is whatever precipitated the memory of the old, so it never really feels new at all. Everything just gets integrated into one big giant ball...

She tells stories of working besideher father, cleaning out fence rowswith his sling blade and hoe. Her storieshelp me to see, as we work together,that history is being made as it gets told.Passed on as it passes by.