Quotes About Forgetting

To be able to forget means sanity.

Unfortunately," he said, "we have short memories. Most heroes are forgotten by the next news cycle.

Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before. Those books that allow us to forget the most are accorded he authority of the classic.

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own life hath been one long forgetting, the erasure of what was drawn, a terrible redaction; til all that remains is blank white and comfortless. I know not what we have been; I know not what we are; but I know what we might be. And so I light out for the unknown regions.

Harry Stickles certainly did possess quite a number of peculiarities which would have been nerve-racking to any less well-constituted girl. These nasty little ways were made worse by the man's preposterous and incredible conceit. But Nancy had been given by Nature one supreme gift—wherein only one other person in Glastonbury rivalled her, and that was John Crow—the gift of forgetting.

But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me

there were times i thought i would forget her. but forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. only it didn't happen to me

There were even times I thought I would forget her. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.

He is stressed by the unsolved problems of his day and finds relief through forgetting them. [...] She, however, wants to find relief by talking about the problems of her day.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

The rule of identity is the rule of amnesia.

The first is the extreme brevity of the financial memory. In consequence, financial disaster is quickly forgotten.

We all need that experience of forgetting who you are. Forgetting who you are is such a delicious experience and so frightening that we're in this conflicted predicament.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

In life we learn, have fun and forget the bullsh..!

Forgive and forget, and don't hold grudges, because those who hold grudges are immature, those who never forgive are weak, and those who accept things the way they are, are growing.

to wish to forget how much you loved someone—and then, to actually forget—can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart.

A]fter all, what does it mean for pain to be 'memorable'? You're either in pain or you're not. And it isn't the pain that one forgets. It's the touching death part. As the baby might say to its mother, we might say to death: I forget you, but you remember me.

We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.

a relationship with time that removes all relevance from the distinction between memory and forgetting, something like a rediscovery or, as in the case of the ritual when it is successful, a renewal.

Given the fleeting nature of the moment and the least event, the most important thing is to anticipate being able to see it again in order to believe it, to anticipate the absence that already looms, the shadow cast by an elusive present. This is the opposite of what is sometimes called the work of grieving, which tends to allay the forgetting. It is not a question of admitting that the other is no longer there but of assuring oneself of having been there, in person.

I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it.

For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell - joy consists in forgetting life.