340 Quotes About Forgetting

Why is it important to forget?Forgetting plays a vital role in our ability to function for a deceptively simple reason. Forgetting allows us to prioritise. Anything irrelevant to our survival will take up wasteful cognitive space if we assign it the same priority as events critical to our survival.

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

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

Forgetting you is not easy for me,Death is easier for me than Forgetting you.

It is not good to talk about rude things you have done willingly or mistakenly. We have to forget those things after telling about it to someone virtues. Then we have another chance to correct us. Repeatedly reminding those things will give us lot of bad results. Instead it is better to talk about best things you have done.

Forgetting is a very useful kind of ignorance: it wipes the bad sums off our slates.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

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

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.