Memory Quote by Jostein Gaarder Download Open image ““The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it unconsciously.”” — Jostein Gaarder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Memory
“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
“Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering.” — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I try to forget, but in the process of forgetting, I remember why I don't want to forget.” — Genvieve Miller Copy Share Image
“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.” — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“We expend more effort in trying to forget memories than in trying to create them.” — Meeta Ahluwalia Copy Share Image
“I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.” — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“There are many things in my life I want to forget. But this I intend to remember.” — Brynn Kelly Copy Share Image
“[...] the first lesson about the nature of memory: what you wish to forget, you may not be able to. What seems to have… — Noam Shpancer Copy Share Image
“I no longer feel the need to see and sense more than I've already experienced. I just want so desperately to hang on what… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
The sophists were as a rule men who had traveled widely and seen different forms of government. Both conventions and local laws in the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Where did the world come from? The question has an answer, even though I cannot get to it. It is a good question. It… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“As soon as she concentrated on being alive now, the thought of dying also came into her mind.” — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Po haljini sam mogao da vidim kako njeno telo diše, jer se haljina dizala i spuštala, dizala i spuštala, skoro kao da morski talasi… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy. — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“The German poet Goethe once said that "he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living from hand to mouth." I don't want… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
“Sophie left the den and wandered about in the large garden. She tried to forget what she had learned at school, especially in science… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
“Maybe there is something when it all ends. Maybe there is memory, memory of the person you loved, when you lived. Maybe this is… — Kate Ellison Copy Share Image
In literature and art memory is a synonym for invention. It is the life-blood of imagination, which faints and dies when the veins are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
I am told many children block out the memory of trauma. In fact, the healing process can only truly begin when we are willing… — Phoebe Stone Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met. — Herb Caen Copy Share Image
Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from… — John Irving Copy Share Image
My first Olympics memory was watching Haile Gebrselassie in Sydney 2000. His sprint finish to defend his title really moved me. — Mo Farah Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad. — Mark Teixeira Copy Share Image
