Recall Failure Quotes

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

He was listening so I don't remember.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

A poem is learned by heart and then not again repeated. We will suppose that after a half year it has been forgotten: no effort of recollection is able to call it back again into consciousness.

You can't recall someone whose name has worn away.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

Not only can I not recall my experiences in my previous lives, sometimes I can't even remember what I did yesterday.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

That is one thing I've learned, that it is possible to really understand things at certain points, and not be able to retain them, to be in utter confusion just a short while later. I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try to call on it, just like a lightbulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

You try and remember, but it never works.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

Hillary Clinton told the FBI 39 times she couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember. Or recall key events concerning illegal server and related misconduct.