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When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.
— Zhuangzi
One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
— Floyd Skloot
But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.
— Julian Barnes
To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.
— Erich Maria Remarque
To remember nothing," they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?
— Stefan Merrill Block
This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;
— J. Jack Halberstam
When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
— Steve Toltz
I have forgotten more of my life than I remember, and with my forgetting I have lost my being.
— Russell Hoban
We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.
— Marc Auge
Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.
— Shannon L. Alder
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
— Vera Nazarian
Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.
— Janet Turpin Myers
If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
— Ivan Klima
I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
— Richard Paul Evans
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
— Gordon Bell
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.
— Arundhati Roy
Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.
— Johnathan Jena
Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
— William Gibson
And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.
— Marcel Proust
Dickens writes that an event, began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
— Charles Dickens
But I feel as if I have said everything of importance that I need to say, I feel as if I'm losing my memory and forgetting who I am.
— Paulo Coelho
I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting
of murdering the memory. — Caryl Phillips
of murdering the memory. — Caryl Phillips
But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.
— Erna Paris
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
— Michael Ignatieff
Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
— Abigail Thomas
Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
— Joyce Rachelle
I've a grand memory for forgetting,
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Memory is the enemy of wonder
— Michael Pollan
Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory.
— Jesse Ball
I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory.
— Calia Read
A life is bookended by forgetting, as though memory forms the tunnel that leads into and out of a human body.
— Sarah Hepola
There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.
— John Boyne
I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.
— Thomas De Quincey
A world that won't forget is a world drowned in its not forgetting. Do we want a world full of unedited memory? To be human is to be finite.
— Tacita Dean
Of course she wants him to forget her. The last place she wants to reside is in his thoughts. What an unpleasant place to be.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.
— Nenia Campbell
Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves
— Dathan Auerbach
Th tree sheds a memory with every leaf.
— Marty Rubin