340 Quotes About Forgetting

Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...

You like to think memory goes far back though remembering was never recommended. Forget all that, the world says. The world's had a lot of practice.

We can’t remember what it is that we’ve forgotten. That we have been made to forget.

Her memory like a skipping record, bumping continually up against the scratch.

Another way to remember someone is to create more memories with that person. The more there is to forget, the longer forgetting takes.

We're not built to recall every detail of every day. We're built to forget.

There's no such thing as forgetting. No matter how hard you try, you only think you've forgotten, and over time the things you think you have forgotten emerge again under another guise and tear into your soul. Understand this: whoever says they have forgotten have merely condemned themselves to an endless repetition of the same event until the end of their lives.

Memory is the art of forgetting.

Memory is a strange combination of those things we work to remember and the things we can never forget