Quote by James Joyce

“He did not remember when everything began to remind him of something else.”

— Tobias Wolff

“I stopped and asked him if he was all right, and he said he was tired of remembering everything he wanted to forget and…

— Kevin Brockmeier

“He did not remember when he began to regard the heap of books on his desk with boredom and dread, or when he grew…

— Tobias Wolff

“He captures memories because if he forgets them, it's as though they didn't happen.”

— Donald Miller

“And she realized very soon that the desire to forget him was the strongest inducement for remembering him.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The forgetting and having to remember again was the very worst part.”

— Ann Brashares

“Sometimes forgetting was just as bad as remembering.”

— Sarah Dessen

“Part of him wanted to remember; part of him needed to forget.”

— Larry McMurtry

“Sometimes....we forgot why we chose to forget in the first place!”

— MpD

“Is only reminding when one forgets.”

— Carolyn Crane

“Because he had been- and in many ways still was- such a brilliant man, he no doubt understood the nature of his memory problem.…

— Yoko Ogawa

“Sometimes I try to forget, but in the process of forgetting, I remember why I don't want to forget.”

— Genvieve Miller