Memory For Forgetfulness Quotes

#1. Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

James Carroll

#2. That's when you know you really fit with someone - when you can just sit there and not do anything. Kind of ignoring each other.

Marina And The Diamonds

#3. Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness.

Erich Maria Remarque

#4. Let old ones go. Dont be a memory-monger!
Once you were young--now you are even younger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. Growing up, my favorite TV show was 'The Man From U.N.C.L.E.', hands down.

John Lasseter

#6. There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country.

Theodore Roosevelt

#7. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#8. If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

Elie Wiesel

#9. Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

Mort Sahl

#10. Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

Joseph Joubert

#11. Nothing distinguishes memories from ordinary moments. Only later do they make themselves known, from their scars. - Chris Marker

Zeina Abirached

#12. The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

Vera Nazarian

#13. But what price do you put on a great memory?

John C. Maxwell

#14. The minute you see him, your hand will throb, your heart will pound out of your chest, and you won't be able to breathe.

Jordan Deen

#15. Everybody wants to identify things about a poet or about a playwright. They want to codify something or put it in terms that can be understood. We want to understand something, because that's how our minds work. We like to understand things, and it's discomfiting if we don't understand things.

Anthony Zerbe

#16. Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Romare Bearden

#17. Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

James Stephens

#18. I'll go gentle, baby," he whispered against my lips. "I promise. You'll always be safe with me."
Oh. My.
"Mitch," I breathed.
His soulful eyes held mine captive as he repeated firmly, "Always.

Kristen Ashley

#19. Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Robert Green Ingersoll

#20. Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: "I did not know that fellow was a poet." And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical management of forgetfulness.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#21. You always seem so in control."
"And you don't?"
He laughed, but somehow not humorously. There was a darkness in his eyes that had nothing to do with color.
"I'll let you in on a secret. I'm not. Sometimes I think that this life is shit. I mean, don't you find it pathetic?

Melina Marchetta

#22. Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Arthur Helps

#23. The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

Maggie Nelson

#24. What is fame? a fancied life in others' breath.

Alexander Pope

#25. Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

Samuel Butler

#26. Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Kahlil Gibran

#27. Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of its roots, nothing distracts it from its profound homeland and the look that it casts upon the outer world is gently dismayed.

Adrienne Monnier

#28. As always, the first instant he sees her, he can feel his heart shut down, the way you do in those first moment after impact, or, he supposes, when you're drowning. Love or panic. The two have always been fairly indistinguishable to him.

Jonathan Tropper

#29. Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Mason Cooley

#30. Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.

Ivan Turgenev

#31. Despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.

Edward Hirsch

#32. Though you forget the way to the Temple,
There is one who remembers the way to your door:
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
You shall not deny the Stranger.

T. S. Eliot

#33. What is one man among so many men?
What are so many men in such a world?
Can one man think one thing and think it long?
Can one man be one thing and be it long?

Wallace Stevens

#34. The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.

Lewis F. Powell Jr.

#35. The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.

Giacomo Casanova

#36. Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Goswami Kriyananda

#37. What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful memory.

Joseph Hall

#38. My father was my trainer, my teacher. He was closer to my sister in the sense that she adored him and he adored her. He was more like my pal. Because of the 13-year gap, I think by the time I came along, it wasn't a big deal. I wasn't spoilt or cherished, I was just put to work.

Felicity Kendal

#39. Should the Egyptians learn to write, Thamus goes on, "it will implant forgetfulness in their souls: they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks." The

Nicholas Carr

#40. Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

Adrian Forty

#41. I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

Patrick Gale