recollection failure Quotes

Continents of memory had been lost.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question.

And then in the FBI report it says that Hillary Clinton can't remember her exit interview from the FBI because of her concussion because she didn't have a memory. But she was acting as secretary of state at the time which means we had a secretary of state who was acting who doesn't have a memory of what she was doing.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

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.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?

So many people, so many amateurs like Donald Trump believe that "I don't recall" is an absolutely fail-safe position and you can't get caught in perjury.

I forgot to remember to forget.

I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

Stories heard but not recalled. Letters too. Words filling my head. Fragmenting like artillery shells. Shrapnel, like syllables, flying everywhere. Terrible syllables. Sharp cracked. Traveling at murderous speed. Tearing through it all in a very, very bad inreparable way.

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.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.