Forgetting Quotes

643 quotes by 531 authors

It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to… — Alain de Botton
How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Marco knows he does not have the time to push her away, so he pulls her close, burying his face in her hair, his bowler… — Erin Morgenstern
Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson. — Paulo Coelho
A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or… — R.J. Ellory
and I wonder if Beethoven held his breath the first time his fingers touched the keys the same way a soldier holds his breath the… — Andrea Gibson
In the blood-heat of pursuing the enemy, many people are forgetting what we are fighting for. We are fighting for our hard-won liberty and freedom;… — Julia Child
We depend on our surroundings obliquely to embody the moods and ideas we respect and then to remind us of them. We look to our… — Alain de Botton
The life I walk binds my hands it makes me take things that I donâ€™t understand I walk this dark world unknowing of what they… — Abbi Glines
It's silly to be depressed by it. I mean one thinks of it like being alive in a box, one keeps forgetting to take into… — Tom Stoppard
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting… — Norman Vincent Peale
I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are… — Jeanette Winterson
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss. — Rebecca Solnit
We will paste upon the curled pages words Like charming and romantic and sentimental Forgetting that charming is witchcraft Romantic is love And sentiment is… — Emilie Autumn
What made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting small things first... it's amazing how much you could forget, and everything… — Ron Rash
Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse. — Kelley Armstrong
Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover.… — Ted Dekker
Shakespeare put no children in his plays for a reason," Sir Godfrey muttered, glaring at Alf and Binnie. "You're forgetting the Little Prince," Polly reminded… — Connie Willis
I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending… — Francesca Lia Block
She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future. — Alice Hoffman

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