Anxiety Quote by Helen Humphreys

“So much is kept off limits these days. There are things we don't speak of, things we not only don't remember but carefully forget,…

— Romesh Gunesekera

Memories seem to surface in no particular order, with no time attached. Yesterday can seem as distant as last year. My life now consists…

— Linda Olsson

&& I need death to forget everything.

— Jtg

The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would…

— Umberto Eco

Memory is what you did. Life is what you're doing.

— Deacon Jones

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

— Honore de Balzac

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Crowds have one expression, cruel and fixed. You let yourself be trapped by a look. You let yourself be carried off and shut away…

— Marie Desplechin

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

— Iggy Pop

“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”

— Rabih Alameddine

[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent…

— Elie Wiesel

No matter how much time passes, no matter what takes place in the interim, there are some things we can never assign to oblivion,…

— Haruki Murakami