Forgetting Quotes

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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and… — Sara Zarr
...forgiving is not the same as forgetting. — Cecily von Ziegesar
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting. — Milan Kundera
To lose oneâ€™s name is the beginning of forgetting. — Keith Donohue
For awhile I taped soap operas and watched them at night when I thought I might be forgetting what it was like to be human.… — Charlaine Harris
Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion. — Audrey Niffenegger
Fear, lest, by forgetting what you are by nature, you also forget the need that you have of continual pardon, support, and supplies from the… — John Bunyan
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book says. It must… — Mortimer Adler
Civilization has so cluttered this elemental man-earth relationship with gadgets and middlemen that awareness of it is growing dim. We fancy that industry supports us,… — Aldo Leopold
Every day: Wear sunblock. Cover your gray. Do not go insane. Eat less fats and sugars. Do more sit-ups. Donâ€™t start forgetting stuff. Trim the… — Chuck Palahniuk
Forgettingâ€™s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didnâ€™t happen to me. — John Fowles
You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this,… — Alison Croggon
But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a… — Jonathan Safran Foer
What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices… — Elie Wiesel
I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long. — Pablo Neruda
a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he… — Jack Kerouac
Hey, arenâ€™t we forgetting something? (Savitar) Your dignity? (Takeshi) No, you have me confused with you again. Arenâ€™t you supposed to be training him? (Savitar)… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I sleep all day. Noises flit around the house- garbage truck in the alley, rain, tree rapping against the bedroom window. I sleep. I inhabit… — Audrey Niffenegger
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. — Ivo Andric

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