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Quotes About Forgetting

God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.
~ Nachman of Breslov
Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
~ Gertrude Stein
I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.
~ Tracy Pollan
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from.
~ Gene Fowler
I don't know why they are all so eager to be remembered. What good will it do them? There are some things that should be forgotten by everyone, and never spoken of again.
~ Margaret Atwood
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
~ William Lyon Phelps
History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.
~ Matt Smith
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
I went to the hardware store to buy some batteries, but they weren't included, so I had to buy them again.
~ Steven Wright
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.
~ William Wordsworth
Much we learn only to forget it again, to stand by the goal, we must traverse all the way to it
~ Friedrich Ruckert
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
~ Evan Esar
Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
~ Paulo Coelho
Ignoring the question is not the solution of problem, Same as forgetting the sorrow isn't happiness
~ Sarthak Tiwari
Perhaps an eternal law of art is that, for everything discovered, something of value is forgotten.
~ Jan Swafford
You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.
~ Jane Yolen
The whole point is that time passes. That things fade. He is already hard to remember. Look, I used to cry because I thought I'd forget. Then I knew that was ridiculous and cried because I remembered. But the truth is that one is the same as the other. Remembering and forgetting are the same bloody thing. He is not alive any more. That's all there is to know. There is no purpose to any of it. The point is there is no point.
~ Janice Galloway
Vaikeinta on unohtaa oppimansa, olla taas tavallinen.
~ Jarkko Laine
Lo que pasó es lo de menos. Es una novela, y lo que ocurre en ellas da lo mismo y se olvida, una vez terminadas. Lo interesante son las posibilidades e ideas que nos inoculan y traen a través de sus casos imaginarios, se nos quedan con mayor nitidez que los sucesos reales y los tenemos más en cuenta.
~ Javier Marías
Así que se olvida cuando se desea olvidar, cuando ya se está listo o cuando recordar no trae placer ni consuelo y es sólo una carga que no permite dar un paso, ni respirar siquiera
~ Javier Marías
Soy joven, habría tiempo de sobra, dicen que se olvida hasta lo inolvidable, lo dicen las personas de más edad.)
~ Javier Marías
Uno olvida mucho más lo que sale de su boca que lo que entra por sus oídos
~ Javier Marías
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it and because you are forever making poems in the lap of death Humanity i hate you
~ E.E. Cummings
I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting.
~ E.E. Cummings