Quotes About Forgetting

Al poner demasiado empeño en olvidar, sólo recuerdo; ¿por qué, cuando uno trata de olvidar, no olvida?

Whoever thinks that in high personages new benefits cause old offences to be forgotten, makes a great mistake.

They learned the wrong things. But if we stay, if we fight, we will remember the wrong things. And then we would become… We decided that we would rather not remember.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

Morat ?e pro?i još mnogo godina prije nego što Max zaboravi ljeto kad je otkrio, gotovo sasma slu?ajno, magiju.

A háborúnak nincs emlékezete, mivel senkinek sincs bátorsága ahhoz, hogy megértse, mi is történt valójában; aztán egyszer csak nem marad szemtanú, aki elmesélhetné; eljön a pillanat, amikor már senki sem emlékszik, s akkor kezdÅ'dik elölrÅ'l az egész, új arccal, új néven, és azt is felfalja, amit maga után hagyott.

Ho sempre invidiato la capacità di dimenticare che possiedono alcune persone per le quali il passato è come un cambio di stagione, o come un paio di scarpe vecchie che basta condannare in fondo a un armadio perché siano incapaci di ripercorrere i passi perduti. Io ho avuto la disgrazia di ricordare tutto e che tutto, a sua volta, ricordasse me.

outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.

Sempre invejei essa capacidade que algumas pessoas têm de esquecer, pessoas para as quais o passado é uma mudança de estação ou uns sapatos velhos que basta condenar ao fundo de um armário para que fiquem incapazes de refazer os passos perdidos.

Nunca subestimes el talento para olvidar que despiertan las guerras

She had spent the summer forgetting to be English--and Tannhahorens had spent the summer forgetting the same thing.

I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of murdering the memory.

For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human. After a while I stopped, because from the examples I saw on those shows, forgetting humanity was a good thing.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

White Americans have a short memory.

My memory's bad!

I have a terrible memory.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Sure, she knew folks who had no problem at all with the past. A lot of it they just didn't remember. Many told her, one way and another, that it was enough for them to get by in real time without diverting precious energy to what, face it, was fifteen or twenty years dead and gone. But for Frenesi the past was one her case forever, the zombie at her back, the enemy no one wanted to see, a mouth wide and dark as the grave.

The Swiss psychoanalyst Alice Miller reports that many adults are unable to remember their childhoods. According to Miller, these memories are repressed at a time when it is necessary for the child's emotional survival to forget. To experience the pain of wounds inflicted by parents on whom the child is totally dependent is, in the child's undeveloped mind, tantamount to death. And so the child learns not to feel—and eventually, not to remember—these hurts.

It was painful to remember him, but the thought of forgetting him was even worse.

You see if you tell yourself the same tale over and over again enough times then the tellings become separate stories and you will generally fool yourself into forgetting you started with one solitary season out of your life.

To lose one's name is the beginning of forgetting.

The addiction was all about looking for oblivion, for forgetting, the contortions we go through just enough to be ourselves for a few hours.