Forgetting Quotes
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
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.
Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.
What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?
Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.
My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.
Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.
The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.
For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.
There's a lot of magic between you too, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard.
This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.
There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.
In life we are always getting ready to live, but we are forgetting to live in the process.
We want so badly to be happy – to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped we’d live – that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.
I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?
To remember nothing, " they would say. "What more could one possibly ask of eternity?
Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.
The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.
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.
There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.
We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful.
Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.