Forget Quote by Anonymous

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

— James Carroll

“Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to do one,…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Remembrance is a form of meeting. Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”

— Kahlil Gibran

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

— Plutarch

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

— Margot Livesey

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“Look around you and look at yourself: the world is swarming with assassins, that is, people who allow themselves to forget those they claimed…

— Amélie Nothomb

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.”

— Carol Edgarian

We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

— Bayazid Bastami

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

— Romare Bearden