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

And what part of me will beginTo forget you first; the suddenPains that shoot to my bruised palmsAs I think of you in the cover of the dark,Or the invisible handClutching at my heart, as...

She goes on with her beautiful hair and mouth like before,I go on like before, alone in the field.It’s like my head had been lowered,And if I think this, and raise my headAnd the golden...

I’ve never stopped; I simply forgot that I love you. However, every time I look at you I’m reminded of how I can never stop loving you.

Morning not only forgives, it forgets.

She’s sure, absolutely sure, that what she’s waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I’m so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece...

To remember nothing,” they would say. “What more could one possibly ask of eternity?

Sometimes we focus on the lyrics too much and forget to dance to the music.

Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys alone were forgotten, perhaps oblivion would be justly desired. But we...

The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai Desert drowned out...

People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things – where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance – but no one ever talks about how much effort we...

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

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...

Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.

I pour blood on my naiveté, your apathy, and your betrayal tonight.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.

Hanya melupakannya? Apakah itu mudah?

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.

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

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if...

I loved her like elephants like remembering stuff. Those bastards just won’t let me forget and move on.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forgetting? …...

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a...

What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you’d never forget?

They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

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...

When I go on the plane to fly home, I’m literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because...

Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.

Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad...

This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

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

In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at...

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor...

To the victims and people out there, our hearts are going out to them. We’re not forgetting about them.

Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won’t. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference.

And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

MASHA. Just think, I am already beginning to forget her face. People will not remember us either. They will forget.VERSHININ. Yes. They will forget. That is our fate, you can’t do anything about it. The...

Nawet nie proszę, abyś mi wybaczyła. Tego, co zrobiłem, nie można wybaczyć. To można tylko zapomnieć.

There are some who believe that the mind is a blank tablet, on which experience is writ until the page be full, and the cryptic world is known; but I see rather that my own...

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They’re fond of paradox in that region.

Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we’re still here.

Life experiences are but moments, you can let them pass or you can make them last.

Writing is the art of remembering and forgetting. You must forget what you’ve already written, because if you’re dwelling on your old material you can’t write new material, and you must remember all you’ve written...

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars

We deliberately forget because forgetting is a blessing. On both an emotional level and a spiritual level, forgetting is a natural part of the human experience and a natural function of the human brain. It...