Quotes About Forgetting

Remember, forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, hiding isn't a long-term strategy, and distraction isn't your friend.

The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

My mind lets go a thousand things, Like dates of wars and deaths of kings

It is a great blessing to be able to forget, but it takes a lot of wisdom to know what should be forgotten.

To je uradila uvjerena da njen život nije toliko zanimljiv nikom osim njoj samoj, a njoj je ionako valjalo mrijeti. Nije pomislila da je brisanjem onoga što je smatrala okamenjenim uspomenama iz svoje li?ne povijesti, ona osudila tu jedinstvenu hroniku cijelog jednog života na zaborav koji sobom nosi nadolaze?a buktinja.

Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Os homens se esquecem com maior rapidez da morte de um pai que da perda de um patrimônio.

There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.

Remembering was pointless; but forgetting somehow seemed immoral.

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

George makes himself remembers. He is afraid of forgetting. Jim is my life, he says. But he will have to forget, if he wants to go on living. Jim is death.

How about forgetting? you say. Sometimes forgetting is better than remembering when nothing can be done. Forgetting is harder than you think, says Nyasha. Especially when something can be done. And ought to be. It's a question of choices.

La nostra identità non è fatta solo delle cose che ricordiamo, ma anche di ciò che riusciamo a dimenticare.

He seemed to be growing conservative, allying himself with Göring's friends, the great industrialists, and forgetting the promises he had made to the common man.

A human being survives by his ability to forget. Memory is always ready to blot out the bad and retain only the good.

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. Lately

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Yo procedo de una generación más reservada. Comprendemos el valor de olvidar, el aliciente de reinventarnos.

There were some memories, though, that never faded.

But where does the silence that neglects her end, and where does the silence that respects her begin? The problem with silence is that it can't speak up and say why it's silent. And so silence collects, becomes amplified, takes on a life outside our intentions, in that silence can get misread as indifference, or avoidance, or even shame, and eventually this silence passes over into forgetting.