Forgetting Quotes

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, ver...

When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist,...

there’s nothing todiscussthere’s nothing torememberthere’s nothing toforgetit’s sadand it’s notsadse...

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fr...

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at ...

Always we learn things and then we forget them.

In India they tell a fable about this: There was once a great devotee of Vishnu who prayed night and...

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming,...

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first ti...

One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot s...

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

Do not allow me to forget you

He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had bee...

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Most things are forgotten over time. Even the war itself, the life-and-death struggle people went th...

Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most importa...

There's pathos in this familiar routine, in the sounds of homely objects touching surfaces. And in t...

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forge...

So one can lose a good ideaby not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes ot...

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

There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what i...

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous...

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if ...

She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; ...

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I wa...

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as norma...

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped...

Memory is the enemy of wonder

The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the...

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, make...

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a b...

During the last ten years of his life my father gradually lost the power of speech. At first he simp...

Their message will never be decoded… because people have no patience to listen to it in an age when ...

Their message will never be decoded, not only because there is no key to it, but also because people...

There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.

Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly yo...

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the ...

I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, or if they had changed so that...

And when suddenlythe god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry,uttered the words: ‘He has turned ...

For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open w...

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other,...

The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until onl...

Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as...

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for ...

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think tha...

Some things you never forgot. She had come to believe that the very things the practical world dismi...

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount...

The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all...

The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his me...

That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, stil...

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is reme...

I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.

MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. Th...

There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuf...

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.