Forgetting Quotes

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We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose… — Dorothy L. Sayers
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep… — Haruki Murakami
The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left. — Lisa Kleypas
We are all prone to brood on the evil done us. That brooding becomes as a gnawing and destructive canker. Is there a virtue more… — Gordon B. Hinckley
...because in a way it happened to someone else. I don't really speak that person's language anymore, and when I think about her, she embarrasses… — Peter S. Beagle
It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. — Aldous Huxley
She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness. — Jonathan Safran Foer
over time, offering loving kindness to all beings everywhere, including ourselves, unites us to one another so that we know that we can not go… — Sharon Salzberg
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To… — Joshua Foer
Why do we not care to acknowledge them? The cattle, the body count. We still don't like to admit the war was even partly our… — Alan Bennett
Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some… — Louisa May Alcott
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are — Henri Nouwen
Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and… — Rainer Maria Rilke
I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards… — Pablo Neruda
I know,â€ said Peter. â€œPerhaps better than anyone. But you canâ€™t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echoâ€™s Well is to choose… — James A. Owen
I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting. — Ann Brashares
I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool. — Claire LaZebnik
By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I… — Thomas Wolfe
Arenâ€™t you forgetting something?â€ â€“ Acheron â€œWhat?â€ â€“ Artemis â€œYour payment.â€ â€“ Acheron â€œThe happiness on your face when first you touched him was enough.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Among her other talents were forgetting what she did not like and ignoring what she preferred not to see. — Anna Godbersen

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