340 Quotes About Forgetting

That's the way history works. People forget so easily. You start telling yourself a new version of the past, and after a while, it becomes reality.

Every act of reading is an act of forgetting: the experience of reading is a palimpsest, in which each text partially covers those that came before. Those books that allow us to forget the most are accorded he authority of the classic.

I don’t want to beone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, soinfluential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distantmemory.

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

We will not read of that which hurts our pride or fears or 'feelings'. We forget, or gloss over, or excuse, an experience which injured the tentacles of our personality. We forget the pscyhiatrist's definition of a neurosis as 'refused pain'. In the same way we escape from mental pain. We refuse to believe what we do not like.

Forgetting the fruits of your action is for getting the fruits when you truly deserve them.

Tell me all the things I'm going to forget.""With every person it's different.""Will I forget to love you?""I hope not.""Don't let me forget to love you.

Two missed calls and you think your father is dead again. The conversation is rushed. Nuances of your new life are pushed into a speaker. They meet alien ears. At home; you are an old stranger. Away; you are a new one.All you have of your family is in a phone. And it is why you can never lose it.