Quote by Elizabeth Gaskell

“It's the forgetting that's the hardest. And the remembering, too.”

— Kayla Olson

“Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.”

— Brodi Ashton

“I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.”

— Lorraine Heath

“Sometimes all you need is to be remembered, especially in a place where it’s so easy to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“Forgetting used to be a failing, a waste, a sign of senility. Now it takes effort. It may be as important as remembering.”

— James Gleick

“Can I really remember, over and over again, that, contrary to all indications, fulfilling my desires will not be as satisfying as lessening them?…

— Jay Michaelson

“[...] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have…

— Noam Shpancer

“But isn’t that the way it is with memory? Give it enough time and it will become worn down and covered in a patina…

— Jason Mott

“Nothing ever really escapes memory, and even the things we forget often are condemned to it.”

— Michael W. Twitty

“At a certain point, memory begins to be a burden.”

— Laurie Colwin

“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.”

— Neal Shusterman