Forget Quote by Ann Patchett

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

— Augusto Roa Bastos

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of…

— Albert J. Nock

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

— Charles de Saint-Evremond

A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past, according to his interest in the present.

— George Santayana

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

— Henry David Thoreau

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

— Herbert Newton Casson

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

— Erich Maria Remarque

He who forgets will be destined to remember…

— Anonymous

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

Letting go is not always about forgetting the past, but living and growing for a better future.

— Anonymous

I kept quiet, but the knowledge gathered like a storm. I could see the future: My father wasn't coming back. And this one fact…

— Karen Thompson Walker