Quotes About Forgetting

Au moment où je commençais à oublier, l'oiseau sinistre est venu battre des ailes autour de moi et il a donné du bec dans la plaie de la blessure des souvenirs. Subitement la honte du passer, la mémoire de mes fautes ont surgi devant mes yeux. En proie à une frayeur qui me donnait envie de crier, je ne pouvais plus rester en place.

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

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying "time heals all wounds" is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

Memory plays an essential part in this process of working out a sat-isfactory relationship between past and present. It is the mental faculty of retaining and recalling the past. But it is a faculty that functions in a wide range of ways. Memory can operate comprehensively or selectively, more or less accurately, more or less honestly. It is always accompanied, moreover, by forgetting and invariably supplemented by invention.

In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against understanding.

Ogni giorno è la stessa battaglia, lo stesso senso di vuoto, lo stesso desiderio di dimenticare e poi di non dimenticare. Quando ciò accade, è perché si è a questo punto, è solo quando si è toccato questo limite la penna comincia a scrivere. La storia inizia e si ferma, va avanti e poi si perde e, in mezzo a ogni parola, quanti silenzi, quante parole sfuggono e svaniscono per non essere mai più ritrovate.

Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must put all else out of our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate… give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been seen before our time.

The search for ground lights is not enough. There is the axis to be followed and '—dot dot dot—' forgotten. You must above all find lightness, buoyancy, the permanent defiance of gravity.

And to read is to understand, to question, to know, to forget, to erase, to deface, to repeat--that is to say, the endless prosopopoeia by which the dead are made to have a face and a voice which tells the allegory of their demise and allows us to apostrophize them in our turn. No degree of knowledge can ever stop this madness, for it is the madness of words.

The failure to remember is not a lie, although liars will often try to excuse their lies, once discovered, by claiming a memory failure. It is not uncommon to forget actions that one regrets, but if the forgetting truly has occurred, we should not consider that a lie. for there was no choice involved. Often it will not be possible to determine whether a memory failure has occurred or whether its invocation is itself a lie.

But we cannot choose what we remember and what we forget. All the lovely bright moments of our lives get forgotten except for remnants here and there, like the leaves blown from a tree in the autumn, and the terrible things, they stick with us forever, as bright and raw as the day they happened.

Some people want the past repeated and have an interest in making sure we don't remember it.

Some of the girl's cheery hopefulness had come back to her in the presence of her brother's dejection, as a woman always forgets her own sorrow when someone she loves is grieving.

It is not only the arduousness of the effort of memory that confers this unsettling character upon the relation, but the fear of having forgotten, of continuing to forget, of forgetting tomorrow to fulfill some task or other; for tomorrow, one must not forget...to remember.

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

I suppose if we forgot stuff we'll never know we forgot it, because we won't remember

At a minimum, Larsen would like to see something done to interrupt the forgetting: give a quiz at the end of a conference and follow it with spaced retrieval practice. "Make quizzing a standard part of the culture and the curriculum. You just know every week you're going to get in your email your ten questions that you need to work through.

While cramming can produce better scores on an immediate exam, the advantage quickly fades because there is much greater forgetting after rereading than after retrieval practice. The benefits of retrieval practice are long-term.

The increased effort required to retrieve the learning after a little forgetting has the effect of retriggering consolidation, further strengthening memory.

Researchers began to ask whether the schedule of testing mattered. The answer is yes. When retrieval practice is spaced, allowing some forgetting to occur between tests, it leads to stronger long-term retention than when it is massed.

When retrieval practice is spaced, allowing some forgetting to occur between tests, it leads to stronger long-term retention than when it is massed.

Retrieval practice—recalling facts or concepts or events from memory—is a more effective learning strategy than review by rereading. Flashcards are a simple example. Retrieval strengthens the memory and interrupts forgetting. A single, simple quiz after reading a text or hearing a lecture produces better learning and remembering than rereading the text or reviewing lecture notes.