Top 71 Quotes About Forgetting Past

#1. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

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#2. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Ba Jin

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#3. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.

Kirsten Hubbard

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#4. I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will
a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul ... the bloodiest of mutilations.

Jim Fergus

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#5. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Richard Paul Evans

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#6. Holding on to some part of your past even if it means also holding on to the pain of never again having it. That pain is less horrible than the pain of forgetting.

Sara Raasch

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#7. You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#8. Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by your past ... not strangled by it.

Steve Maraboli

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#9. There is much I am happy to forget

Veronica Roth

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#10. If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

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#11. Belfast is a city which, while not forgetting its past, is living comfortably with its present and looking forward to its future.

James Nesbitt

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#12. Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this visible and tangible thing we hold in our hands, with no folds left hidden in the past.

Cesar Aira

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#13. I note that I've lived longer in the past now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting more of it.

Denis Johnson

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#14. South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

Nelson Mandela

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#15. 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

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#16. However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

Tony Judt

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#17. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.

Nelson Mandela

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#18. I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.

Andrea Seigel

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#19. You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.

Ali Rezavand Zayeri

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#20. Did he really want this warm room of his, so comfortably fitted with old family furniture, to be transformed into a cave, in which, no doubt, he would be free to crawl about unimpeded in all directions, but only at the price of rapidly and completely forgetting his human past at the same time?

Franz Kafka

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#21. Rituals keep us from forgetting what must not be forgotten and keep us rooted in a past from which we must not be disconnected.

Tony Campolo

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#22. It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

Aldous Huxley

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

Malala Yousafzai

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#24. Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.

Emil Cioran

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#25. The good and the beautiful is not forgotten; it lives in legend and in song.

Hans Christian Andersen

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#26. I think that's what a fresh start is all about. Not ignoring the past, but seeing it through the eyes of God, through the eyes of grace. Knowing where we've been and where we're going. A fresh start isn't about forgetting; it's about perspective.

Susan May Warren

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#27. Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain.

Nitesh Nishad

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#28. Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.

Norman Vincent Peale

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

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

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#30. People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present.

Tim I. Gurung

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#31. For a movement supposedly devoted to conserving the past, conservatives are oh-so-splendid at forgetting their own past.

Rick Perlstein

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#32. True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

Nelson Mandela

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#33. I also forgive myself. May the misfortunes of the past no longer weigh on my heart. Instead of pain and resentment, I choose understanding and compassion. Instead of rebellion, I choose the music from my violin. Instead of grief, I choose forgetting. Instead of vengeance, I choose victory.

Paulo Coelho

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#34. I just . . . it's sometimes hard not to associate moving forward with forgetting the past," I said.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

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#35. The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered.

T.K. Kiser

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#36. Crossing the line isn't about forgetting the people we love. It's about not letting our past sorrow steal our future joy.

Deanna Roy

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#37. . . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars

John Daniel Thieme

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#38. One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know what happiness is; and, worse still, will never do anything that makes others happy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#39. To grant forgiveness to someone who has truly changed is not a way of condoning or forgetting his or her past crimes, but of acknowledging whom he or she has become.

Matthieu Ricard

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#40. Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.

John Speed

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#41. Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

David Brin

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#42. While forgetting the past might condemn people to repeat it, remembering it too vividly condemned them to never leave.

Louise Penny

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#43. Forgiveness is not a one off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.

Corallie Buchanan

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#44. There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.

Frank Herbert

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#45. Life is short as breathing!
Forget Yesterday, Focus today to enjoy tomorrow!
The purpose of life is to live it, not destroy it.

Ebelsain Villegas

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#46. You're just another story I can't tell anymore.

Pleasefindthis

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#47. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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#48. Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and we are lulled by this intoxication into forgetting the unseen horizons beyond.

Gustave Flaubert

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#49. Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.

Fethullah Gulen

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#50. The sadness in your heart is a yesterday you can no longer see, so put it behind you and walk always forward.
Swift Antelope to Amy in Comanche Heart

Catherine Anderson

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#51. The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.

Jeanette Winterson

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#52. Writers don't forget the past; they turn it into raw material.

Joyce Rachelle

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#53. Moving on is not about forgetting the past; it's about learning from it. Find the message in the mess ... Cry. Forgive. Learn. That's moving on.

Steve Maraboli

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

Marty Rubin

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#55. That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.

R.A. Salvatore

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#56. Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

Jose Saramago

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#57. 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

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#58. You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.

Laura Aranda

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#59. By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

Jack Dempsey

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#60. Sometimes people have to compensate for the past, forgetting about the future.

Alen Sargsyan

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#61. Remembering to live by forgetting all the places where I died.

Jenim Dibie

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

Jean Anouilh

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#63. 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

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#64. Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory.

Jesse Ball

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#65. The day we forget the horror, Sam, we will repeat it. Never forget your past. It will make you less human, less than human.

Katherine Reay

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#66. Smartass Disciple: Master, I want to be the better me by forgetting my past.
Master of Stupidity: If you just forget it, how would you measure you're better?

Toba Beta

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#67. Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.

Patrick Modiano

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#68. Memory really matters ... only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to become without ceasing to be, and to be without ceasing to become.

Italo Calvino

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#69. For some, excavating the past isn't an adventure, it's more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.

Raquel Cepeda

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#70. Don't forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

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#71. Forget the past... "I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead." - Philippians 3:13b

Lisa Cheater

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