Quotes About Forgetting

We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

I want to believe that her memory will soon come back, because we don't have the strength to fight against forgetting.

On se souvient de rien, et puisqu'on oublie tout, rien c'est bien mieux que tout.

In a way, it was the beginning of something I'd long feared: that vampires would become part of the popular culture. That people would be too busy worshiping them or imitating them or even laughing at them—and forget to fear them.

I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.

But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.

It's a shame, but every time I get something scientific in the script, I read up to find out what I'm talking about - but then I'm on to the next script and it's forgotten.

I had to forget you, force you from my thoughts and my heart. I could not have stayed sane else.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

And we forget because we must

It's almost as if the harder you try to forget something, the harder your brain tries to remember it. This is why forcing yourself to forget about something that happened to you is impossible. It's also why you can't simply force yourself to get rid of emotions that you don't want.

La sabiduría reside en saber cuándo hay que recordar y cuándo olvidar.

Maybe he's been in Africa so long he has forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it is called Monotony. If I'd known what marriage was going to be like, well, heck, I probably would have tied all those hope-chest linens together into a rope and hung myself from a tree!

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

They can't do it without wandering down blind alleys or making contradictory or even nonsensical claims. This is partly because talking (and thinking) is often more about forgetting than about remembering.

We need to talk—both to remember and to forget.

Una vez escuché en un documental dedicado al funcionamiento del cerebro que en ocasiones recordamos para olvidar. Pasamos una y otra vez sobre los surcos del mismo disco para borrarlos. Como si la repetición eliminara la memoria en lugar de preservarla.

I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.

Partid los días de año entre las que ahí encontráis. Uno para enamorarlas, otro para conseguirlas, otro para abandonarlas, dos para sustituirlas, y una hora para olvidarlas.

That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.