Forgetting Quotes

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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
We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within. — Jim Harrison
Only one thingâ€™s sadder than remembering you were once free, and thatâ€™s forgetting you were once free. — Leonard Peltier
Above or Love, Hope, Hate or Fear, It lives all passionless and pure: An age shall fleet like earthly year; Its years in moments shall… — Lord Byron
Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia â€“ forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
Captivated by its discipline, humanity forgets and goes on forgetting that it is the discipline of chess players, not of angels. — Jorge Luis Borges
All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials. — Adolf Hitler
In order to escape accountability for his crimes, the perpetrator does everything in his power to promote forgetting. If secrecy fails, the perpetrator attacks the… — Judith Lewis Herman
The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial.… — Jeanette Winterson
I made a circular motion with my finger around my temple to indicate I thought this guy was crazy, forgetting that there was no one… — John Swartzwelder
Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the… — Desmond Tutu
Wherever we go we do harm, forgiving ourselves as wheels do cement for wearing each other out. We set this house on fire, forgetting that… — Jim Harrison
. . . your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether… — Ted Dekker
Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not… — Pablo Neruda
Forgetting takes space./Forgotten matters displace/as much anything else as/anything else. We must/skirt unlabeled crates/as thought it made sense/and take them when we go/to other states. — Kay Ryan
We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
We had to survive to remember. Otherwise everything we were would disappear. Those people we loved would fade as though we'd never loved them, as… — Alice Hoffman
Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat. — William P. Young
But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew… — Ann Patchett

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