Goethe Quote by John Zelazny

“When you write something down, you give yourself permission to forget.”

— Mindy Welch

“I may at times forget the details of my life but I remember the stories I read.”

— Ann Patchett

“Stories help us remember what we never want to forget.”

— Emory R. Frie

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

— Genvieve Miller

“I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget. Every man's memory is his private literature. Some people come into our…

— Emily Kimbrough

“I don't like remembering. Remembering makes me feel things. I don't like to feel things. I'm thinking I could spend the rest of my…

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

“I don't like forgetting," I said with my eyes closed. A single tear slipped down my cheek and I let it. "I don't want…

— Nadège Richards

“The world forgets. We always forget. We say that we won’t forget, but we do. We go about our lives, and the daily petty…

— Elizabeth C. Mock

“Maybe memory is overrated. Maybe forgetting is better. (Show me the Proust of forgetting, and I'll read him tomorrow.) Sometimes it's like juggling a…

— Francisco Goldman

“Memory can refuse to let you forget what you’d like to and run away with what you want to remember. It’s an unreliable bitch,…

— Megan Hart

“I hear and I forget I see and I remember,sometimes I write and understand”

— Derek Smith

“You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.”

— Henning Mankell