Forget Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

“He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew…

— Tobias Wolff

“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.”

— Tobias Wolff

“Sometimes forgetting was just as bad as remembering.”

— Sarah Dessen

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

— Tom Rachman

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

— James Coco

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

— Michael Pollan

“I stopped and asked him if he was all right, and he said he was tired of remembering everything he wanted to forget and…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I'll read him tomorrow.) Sometimes it's like juggling a…

— Francisco Goldman

He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the words and pass it on.…

— Cormac McCarthy

“although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if…

— John Connolly