Forgetting Quote by Carol Edgarian

“Describe what is meant by “forgetting.”

— Richard Benson

“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.”

— James Gleick

“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.”

— Marwane Caber

“Remembering and Forgetting You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as…

— Idries Shah

“Trying to forget is an everlasting act of remembering”

— Roberto Muniz Dias

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another…

— Emil Cioran

“Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is…

— Peter Rock

“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.”

— John Fowles

“There are things that one keeps on dreaming of forgetting, while others were ought to be remembered, but were kept off.”

— Fady Seleem

“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

— Erich Maria Remarque