Consciousness Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness,

— Mia Couto

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig

Why is it that we always remember that people forget; but we always forget that they remember?I used to remember...but I forgot!

— Merrit Malloy

Some things become such a part of us that we forget them.

— Antonio Porchia

Memory is the place where our vanished days secretly gather. ... The past seems to be gone and absent. Yet the grooves in the…

— John O'Donohue

We choose to forget aspects of ourselves and then we forget that we've forgotten.

— Debbie Ford

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

— Erich Maria Remarque

It's so necessary to try and record the cultural memory of people. To set it down for generations to come. To better understand where…

— Natasha Trethewey

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

— Margot Livesey

Forgetting stuff is just human, especially when other things are on our minds.

— Claudia Winkleman

People forget things that they knew.

— Randy Travis