Quotes About Forgetting

I always pack too much, but I'm just nervous I'll forget something.

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.

Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is wonderful. It is by abandonment.

You read much, Bernie?' 'More and more,' I admitted. 'And for me it's like the French Foreign Legion. I do it to forget. Myself, I think.

Le problème, voyez-vous, c'est que quand on est grand, on oublie, on oublie presque tout, et on oublie surtout qu'on a été enfant.

It seems to me that we live in dangerous times all over the world: we have the technology to remember everything but a desire to forget the troubling and to seek the safety of numbness. Fiction can do something about that.

People's memories are quite short. Often people think they recognize me from down the shops or something.

There's a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

In the emptiness of evenings, serious and unequivocal, he would say: "How beautiful is forgetting! what relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents!

The Thanksgiving turkey is the flesh of competing instincts —of remembering and forgetting.

Remembering and forgetting are part of the same mental process. To write down one detail of an event is to not write down another (unless you keep writing forever).

Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely — yet not entirely — forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.

Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.

Things became duplicated in Tlön; they also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death. At times some birds, a horse, have saved the ruins of an amphitheater.

Tres suertes puede correr un libro de versos: puede ser adjudicado al olvido, puedo no dejar una sola línea pero sí una imagen total del hombre que lo hizo, puede legar a las antologías unos pocos poemas...

I don't speak of vengeance, nor of forgiving; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness

Vivimos descubriendo y olvidando esa dulce costumbre de la noche. Hay que mirarla bien. Puede ser última. (Our life is spent discovering and forgetting that gentle habit of the night. Take a good look. It could be the last.)

Para aprender el arte del olvido. Un símbolo, una rosa, te desgarra.

La meta es el olvido.Yo he llegado antes.

Things become duplicated in Tlön; they also tend to become effaced and lose their details when they are forgotten. A classic example is the doorway which survived so long as it was visited by a beggar and disappeared at his death.

Hay quien busca el amor de una mujer para olvidarse de ella, para no pensar más en ella.

El olvido bien puede ser una forma profunda de la memoria.