Quote by Joshua Foer

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it.…

— Joshua Foer

“The truth is that we all live by leaving behind. Borges. That was it. Jorge Luis Borges’s Funes the Memorious, a book about a…

— Sarah Hilary

“And he uncovered in us a curious need: that we each secretly wanted him to remember us the most. It was strange, both vital…

— Sarah Winman

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

— Fady Seleem

“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.”

— Neal Shusterman

“We must forget what they said if it causes us to forget who we are.”

— Zara Hairston

“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what…

— Mary Roach

“My Past life as a human is now just memories, I try hard not to forget them.”

— Bianca Lizbeth Garcia

“The things he sees are not just remembered; they form a part of his soul.”

— Anonymous

“I understand that sometimes the only way we can survive our own memories is to shape them into a story that makes sense out…

— Yeonmi Park

“I am beginning to understand the way in which memories hold us, mindfully, to the earth, by the quality of attention paid that they…

— Liz Stephens

“We don’t discover, we don’t learn. We just remember things that we have forgotten…”

— Guillermo del Toro