Quotes About Forgetting

The critics tend to forget their own answers after a while.

In 2014, as a Christmas gift, I wrote an essay for my husband, about our story. Writing that showed me there was value in interrogating my experiences while they were fresh - especially because I was terrified of forgetting.

Now, forgetting is the means of transition from one state of consciousness to another. Even in the case of sleep, which can be considered as a "natural ecstasy", one has to forget the world of the day in order to be able to pass into the world of the night. In order to fall asleep one has to be able to forget. Insomnia is due to the inability to forget.

Surrendering that pain to stone had deadened me in a way that was a relief, but there was a darker side to that forgetting. I've seen folk who numbed their pain with strong drink or Smoke or other herbs and always the loss of their pain made them less connected. Less human. And so it was with me. Every

Some memories are best left undisturbed. Sometimes, if you forget something, it's because it's better forgotten.

My father had already forgotten him. He had suddenly

The human memory is such a cruel, frustrating thing, the way it just discards things without asking permission, precious things.

It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life. —JAMES FENTON, "A German Requiem

Thus he illustrated a perennial problem of new theological thinking: it is all too soon forgotten as a new generation arises, one that 'knows not Joseph'.

Her alanda, as?l yenilgi, unutmakt?r, özellikle de sizi neyin gebertmiÅŸ olduÄŸunu unutmak.

Que adiantava eu perguntar se ele se lembrava de uma coisa que ele queria se esquecer? Quem queria se lembrar era eu, que não queria construir nada de novo

I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.

Everybody forgets some small things, all the time!" But if small things go, will large things be close behind?

The light of the fire dying in the water like a dream being forgotten.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.

So is it true, what our enemies say about us: nothing learned, nothing forgotten? (Talleyrand)

Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

Forgetting it is important. We do it on purpose. It means we get a bit of a rest. Are you listening? We have to forget. Or we'd never sleep ever again.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.

She was good at forgetting; she had practiced for years, and it was now a skill at which she excelled.

One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there was no way to stop her. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future

This is what happens. You put it away for a little while, and now and again you look in the closet for something else and you remember, and you think, soon. Then it becomes something that is just there, in the closet, and other things get crowded in front of it and on top of it and finally you don't think about it at all. The thing that was your bright treasure. You don't think about it. A loss you could not contemplate at one time, and now it becomes something you can barely remember.