Quotes About Forgetting

The important things to remember she remembered, she told herself. The rest was chaff, which time would have winnowed out of active memory anyway.

Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. Bu ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.

Mankind has a history of forgetting the unpleasant, the undesirable. But ignoring its existence, it can make the source of past Terror disappear.

Memory was a curse, yes, he thought, but it was also the greatest gift. Because if you lost memory you lost everything.

La memoria es una maldición -pensó-, pero también es el mayor de los dones. Porque si pierdes la memoria lo pierdes todo.

The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected that's when he doesn't forget them.

Everyone else had forgotten, or was forbidden from remembering, which came to the same thing. Dust had never been human, but he remembered.

Oh, human memory is shorter than I thought.

But I should never write what had happened down. One's nature is to forget, and one ought to go by that. Memory is quite unbearable enough, but even so it leaves out quite a lot.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

Communities must make decisions and establish institutions that foster forgetting as much as remembering. Shredding the personal files of old Stasi (the former Fast Germany secret services) is an example of a communal decision to forget.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

Knowing must therefore be accompanied by an equal capacity to forget knowing.

We meet and love, someone builds a tomb for us, perhaps. It does not matter—someone else will rob it, and the winds puff away our dust; then we shall be forgotten.

I have never done you injustice. Please remember me," said Dorothea, repressing a rising sob. "Why should you say that?" said Will, with irritation. "As if I were not in danger of forgetting everything else.

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed.

photographs supplant and corrupt the past, all the while creating their own memories. As I held my childhood pictures in my hands, in the tenderness of my "remembering," I also knew that with each photograph I was forgetting.

Some directors cast you because they trust you to do the performance - but then they forget to direct you.

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

It's a beautiful paradox: In order to remember, we have to forget to some degree.