340 Quotes About Forgetting

Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

هناك نوعان من القراء : نوع يقرأ ليتذكر .. ونوع يقرأ لينسى

The chain connecting mother to daughter was broken and the world passed to the keeping of men, who had no way of knowing.

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.

Amnesia of both past failure and success is the best way forward.

It's not that I forgot; it just stopped bothering me. It was the strangest thing.

...forgetting and perfecting freely, with open hand giving back to the world the gifts received, thus it is that the Ego stands in the current of life's events. Because a man bears this and no other Ego he has particular experiences, out of which certain deeds--and misdeeds--issue.

For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was ever a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was, and there was only ever the butterfly.

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?