Forgetting Memories Quotes

#1. I can forgive, but no matter how hard I try, the memories never fade. Forgetting is the worst because there's a trigger for every memory.

Calia Read

#2. She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.

Genevieve Cogman

#3. It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them.

Robin Hobb

#4. Th tree sheds a memory with every leaf.

Marty Rubin

#5. If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

Ivan Klima

#6. To remember is to rewrite. To photograph is to replace. The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have been forgotten. They are the dark rooms of the mind. Unopened, untouched, and uncorrupted.

Abby Geni

#7. I don't like the memories because the tears come easily, and once again I break my promise to myself for this day. It's a constant battle. a war between remembering and forgetting.

E. E. Cummings

#8. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life. James Fenton, "A German Requiem

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#9. It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

Samuel Johnson

#10. My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Stephen King

#11. Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

Jean Anouilh

#12. I know you're just a rag doll now, sewn together with memories that we might have had. I know you're just the dream inside of a dream And don't worry, I know I don't know you, anymore.

Pleasefindthis

#13. He got up slowly, not bothering to curse himself for forgetting the stop where he had to disembark. He was not used to leaving things behind; he wondered how the bus stop escaped.

Faraaz Kazi

#14. Writing from memory like this, I often feel a pang of dread. What if I've forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?

Haruki Murakami

#15. History and memory aren't the same thing[...] History doesn't abide acts of the imagination but memories depend on it. And memories are as much what we've forgotten as what we recall. History cannot be forgotten.

Peter Geye

#16. When I say I'm going to forget you I know it's impossible to forget someone I once knew. What I want is to erase you from my thoughts and purge you from my memories. I'm saying it's what I wish for, not what is or could ever be.

Donna Lynn Hope

#17. I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

Thomas De Quincey

#18. What is living? Forging memories. What is dying? Forgetting them.
I never die.

Kaine Andrews

#19. You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if it doesn't make sense.

Lois Lowry

#20. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.

Shannon L. Alder

#21. Was the dementia of old age a blessing in disguise? No more thoughts. No more damage inflicted. No more memories of damage survived.

Janet Turpin Myers

#22. When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Sara Zarr

#23. Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.

Shannon L. Alder

#24. There are places I cannot visit. Places of unbearable sadness, grief, mourning. They say places are made by people. I say places are defined by the memories they conjure - the lunge of a curse, a shared and shattered history, a loved one drowned and lost in the ocean of forgetting.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#25. How often do we stand convinced of the truth of our early memories, forgetting that they are assessments made by a child? We can replace the narratives that hold us back by inventing wiser stories, free from childish fears, and, in doing so, disperse long-held psychological stumbling blocks.

Benjamin Zander

#26. Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.

Brodi Ashton

#27. Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

Sara Zarr

#28. Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves

Dathan Auerbach

#29. Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.

Marty Rubin

#30. Time doesn't really soften anything. Memories heave up, you know. Still sharp."
"Forgetting takes practice," says Enid. "You have to work at it.

Helen Humphreys

#31. Made a lot of changes
But not forgetting who i was

One Direction

#32. Memory shrinks until it fits in a fist
memory shrinks without forgetting

Fady Joudah

#33. Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories.

T. S. Eliot

#34. Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying "time heals all wounds" is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door.

Patrick Rothfuss

#35. The mind, he reflects, is like a house - thoughts which the owner no longer wishes to display, or those which arouse painful memories, are thrust out of sight, and consigned to attic or cellar; and in forgetting, as in the storage of broken furniture, there is surely an element of will at work.

Margaret Atwood

#36. The easiest thing to do is let go, the hardest is forgetting, That's why they're called memories. Life's Lessons

B. Easley