340 Quotes About Forgetting

Tu avais commencé sous l'égide de Miranda à écrire des éloges du présent mais maintenant, son présent s'était rétréci jusqu'à n'être qu'un minuscule point de lumière, les ténèbres alentours te confondaient.

Will the same day ever come back, and with it Our amazement at having been in it, or will only a dark haze Spread at the back of the mind, erasing events, one after The other, so brief they may have been lost to begin with?

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .

If you are able to forget yourself, you will know you would not be forgotten!

Reasons get forgotten.

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

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