Top Forgetting Quotes

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or nee...

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

Forgetting Definition

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Forget

Because in the end we forget everything, anyway. We're human; we're amnesia machines.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.

To be able to forget means sanity.

She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of...

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.

There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who we...

Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, A century of learning [from Native Americans] was coming to a close. A century and more of fo...

The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai Desert dr...

It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery o...

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

Forgiveness is an attribute we must practice , as we all want the Al-mighty to forgive us. But forgetting and trusting again with a revivifying attitude is undoubtedly stark exhausting . We have a won...

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we...