Active Quote by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and who at…

— Honore de Balzac

“Describe what is meant by “forgetting.”

— Richard Benson

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

— Anonymous

“Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.”

— Carol Edgarian

“Look around you and look at yourself: the world is swarming with assassins, that is, people who allow themselves to forget those they claimed…

— Amélie Nothomb

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

Forgetting is like lighting a candle. The candle slowly disappears but the wax is always there.

— Anonymous

It's rare that we actively and consciously 'forget'; most of the time we have simply forgotten, with no consciousness of having forgotten. In individuals,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

— Plutarch

“Trying to forget is an everlasting act of remembering”

— Roberto Muniz Dias