Absent Quote by Charles Dudley Warner

“Memory isn't something that stays with you at all times. It's a quantity that gets summoned or evoked or brought to mind. It gets…

— Jodi Picoult

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

— Honore de Balzac

“There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after…

— Elizabeth Kostova

... I remember you and recall you without effort, without exercise of will; that is, by natural impulse, indicated by a sense of duty,…

— Anonymous

Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.

— Anonymous

One who easily forgets can be easily forgotten.

— Anonymous

“The memory has a marvellous capacity to remember the forgotten, its existence and its stalking, and thus allow us to stay alert when we…

— Juan Gabriel Vásquez

When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that…

— Steve Toltz

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

— Erich Maria Remarque

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

— Richard Rodriguez

To learn from experience, we must remember it, and, for a variety of reasons, memory is a faithless friend.

— Daniel Gilbert

“People who have lost their memories have lost much of what makes them who they are. Memory is what enables us to learn by…

— Patricia Wolfe