Filled Quote by George Meredith

“And still it was gone. Seeing it again could not be living it again. You can always rediscover an old path and wander over…

— Beryl Markham

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

— Anonymous

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

“Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. Knows remembers believes a corridor in a big long garbled…

— William Faulkner

“I was born in a country of brooks and rivers, in a corner of Champagne, called Le Vallage for the great number of its…

— Gaston Bachelard

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

“That's what memory is like: layers, one overlapping another, and compacting down the way old leaves slowly crumble and turn to a rich peaty…

— Julia Green

You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach…

— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski

“Forgetting is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this…

— César Aira

“We need to remember our intention is a germinating seed lying beneath the surface of our life. We have to keep nurturing our desire…

— Jeanne McElvaney

“the forest glowered in the evening light, surrounding the town with its secrets and its plots, casting dark shadows on their lives. To her…

— Patricia Forde

“Trying to remember, I have learned , is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back…

— Patricia McCormick