Conscious Quote by D. H. Lawrence

If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.

— Ivan Klíma

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

— Michael Ignatieff

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.

— Claudia Winkleman

Life has no memory. That which proceeds in succession might be remembered, but that which is coexistent, or ejaculated from a deeper cause, as…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.

— Anonymous

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

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?

— Elise M. Boulding

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

— Anonymous

To die completely, a person must not only forget but be forgotten, and he who is not forgotten is not dead.

— Samuel Butler

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

— George Harrar

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

— Mason Cooley

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig