Memory Quote by Doris Lessing

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

— Cormac McCarthy

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

— Tim O'Brien

When you remembered to forget, you were remembering. It was when you forgot to forget that you forgot.

— Ann Brashares

It's hard to forget when all you can remember is what you did

— Anonymous

Memory is the thing you forget with.

— Alexander Chase

You don't forget what you will remember

— Lotte Boone

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

— Julian Barnes

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

— Anonymous

Memories are said to be remembered. But sometimes it's better to forget and let the past behind to face the future.

— Kreyzii

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

— Bill Johnson

You can easily forget the things you try to remember, and remember the things you try to forget.

— Syoung

Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative…

— Natasha Trethewey