Quotes About Forgetting

Herleid tot zijn eenvoudigste vorm komt mijn besluit hierop neer, dat u de gebeurtenis weg hebt willen dringen uit uw bewustzijn. Waarschijnlijk heeft de overigens ongegronde wroeging om het feit, dat u de man niet helpen kon, u parten gespeeld en zich tot een schuldgevoel gefixeerd. Men vergeet echter niet, wat men wil vergeten.

He remembered that all the questions had been directed at him and that he had answered each and every questioning voice. But he did not know what he had answered. —You will forget, was his final memory. There his history ended, without a future, without a name.

Perhaps not without a future. His future would be a future of questions, of remembering all that he had forgotten. And perhaps that was all the future he needed, the act of asking was an end in itself.

information was like a stone skimming across the surface of his brain, soon sinking, never to be retrieved.

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember – and generally more practical.

Recordando y Olvidando No te has olvidado de recordar; Te has acordado de olvidar. Pero la gente puede olvidarse de olvidar. Eso es tan importante como acordarse de recordar y, en general, más práctico.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

After all, how many of us had tried to forget something traumatic...only to find it printed on the back of our eyelids, tattooed on our tongues?

You always remember what you forget to forget, you forget what you forget to remember and you remember what you do not forget to remember to remember.

Create the future by controlling the present and forgetting the past.

The hardest thing about moving on is forgetting the past, but the hardest part about forgetting the past is moving on..

The key of my happiness, just forgetting my past..

His habit of forgetting was too deeply ingrained, as if he passed his life perpetually walking backward through a desert, sweeping away his footprints,

Nations, without exception, disposed of body parts all the time. How could we bear ourselves otherwise if not for the mass graves of our forgetting?

Le plus difficile à admettre, c'est la certitude qu'on oubliera.

The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.

What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. This is bad for everyone; the majority lose all genuine taste of their own, and the minority become cultural snobs.

Voices Over Water" There are spirits that come back to us when we have grown into another age we recognize them just as they leave us we remember them when we cannot hear them some of them come from the bodies of birds some arrive unnoticed like forgetting they do not recall earlier lives and there are distant voices still hoping to find us

for a time beyond measure there were no rooms and now many have forgotten the sky

There are spirits that come back to us when we have grown into another age we recognize them just as they leave us we remember them when we cannot hear them some of them come from the bodies of birds some arrive unnoticed like forgetting they do not recall earlier lives and there are distant voices still hoping to find us — W.S. Merwin, "Voices Over Water," Garden Time . (Copper Canyon Press September 13, 2016)

All night while the rain fell the dark valley heard in silence the silent valley did not remember you were asleep beside me while the rain fell all around us I listened to you breathing I wanted to remember the sound of your breath but we lay there forgetting asleep and awake forgetting a breath at a time while the rain went on falling around us. — W.S. Merwin, from "The Sound of Forgetting," Garden Time (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)