Top 37 Quotes About Remembering And Forgetting
#1. But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.
Stig Dagerman
#2. I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.
Sue Hubbell
#4. They were a delicious bunch but always forgetting the sensible things like food and daylight and remembering only the more intoxicating ones like love and gin.
Rachel Joyce
#5. Friendship consists in forgetting; what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas
#6. But the only thing worse than remembering the feel of Rose in his arms, the softness of her black and white feathers, the sound of her voice when she sang quietly to herself, would be forgetting it.
Melissa Grey
#7. Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco
#8. When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever truly lost or gone once they have been in our life and loved us, as we have loved them.
Leslie Marmon Silko
#9. Servants must be big people. Big enough to go on, remembering the right and forgetting the wrong.
Charles R. Swindoll
#10. 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.
Maggie Nelson
#11. I stopped and asked him if he was all right, and he said he was tired of remembering everything he wanted to forget and forgetting everything he wanted to remember.
Kevin Brockmeier
#12. Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.
Brian Tracy
#13. Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free.
Leonard Peltier
#14. The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
Adolf Hitler
#15. Remembering and forgetting are part of the same mental process. To write down one detail of an event is to not write down another (unless you keep writing forever).
Jonathan Safran Foer
#18. Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.
Claudia Black
#19. Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering
remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
Desmond Tutu
#20. In some respects supermarket apples represent a kind of collective forgetting - of flavors, textures, and aromas, of landscapes and foliage. Forgetting can be far more difficult to study than remembering, because its traces are much harder to discern.
Jennifer A. Jordan
#21. Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.
Mark Batterson
#22. Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler
#23. Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.
Mark Batterson
#24. We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long as we here, we can get on living by never forgetting. Never forgetting and always remembering.
Andrew Galasetti
#25. The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.)
Laurie Halse Anderson
#26. 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
#27. When we think of fear as an acronym meant to support us, we find that fear itself has genius, magic and power in it. We can use any fear that we feel to our advantage in the moment by remembering what FEAR really is: Forgetting Everything is All Right.
Lori Cash Richards
#28. I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
Ann Brashares
#30. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.
Gary Wolf
#31. You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
Idries Shah
#32. The trick of functioning with grief is that of remembering and forgetting all at once. Of letting the ghost walk at your side but not block the way.
Jack Ketchum
#33. Forgetting is the easy part. This should be unsurprising, but it surprises me. Forgetting was easy. Remembering is endless and it hurts, endlessly.
Amy Zhang
#34. Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.
Mason Cooley
#35. The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.
John Gray
#36. I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance.
Jeanette Winterson
#37. To study history means to search for and discover the forces that are the causes of those results which appear before our eyes as historical events. The art of reading and studying consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting what is not essential.
Adolf Hitler
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