Life Quote by John le Carré

“His habit of forgetting was too deeply ingrained, as if he passed his life perpetually walking backward through a desert, sweeping away his footprints,”

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.”

— Heywood Broun

“There are things that one keeps on dreaming of forgetting, while others were ought to be remembered, but were kept off.”

— Fady Seleem

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

— Rabih Alameddine

“There is no one, no matter how wise he is, who has not in his youth said things or done things that are so…

— Marcel Proust

“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

“Only by forgetting does the mind have the possibility of total renewal.”

— Gadamer

“Forget forgetting. We seek to forget ourselves, to be surprised and to do something without knowing how or why. The way of life is…

— Peter Rock

“Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.”

— Carol Edgarian

“His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory - if anyone remembered him.”

— James Joyce

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“In the emptiness of evenings, serious and unequivocal, he would say: “How beautiful is forgetting! what relief it would be for the world to…

— Jonathan Safran Foer