Always thinking Quote by Allan Bloom

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 Klíma

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

— George Harrar

“In the old days, a man was taught to forget himself. Today it is quite different: he is taught not to forget himself and…

— Natsume Sōseki

People leave strange little memories of themselves behind when they die.

— Haruki Murakami

When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“What use are experiences if we're not allowed to remember them? If we forget in order to avoid the pain and loss? What is…

— Carrie Ryan

This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and…

— Peter Kreeft

We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle; easily and often breached. Unable…

— Irving Townsend

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

— Michael Ignatieff

“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys…

— Anonymous

Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price:…

— Irvin D. Yalom