Desire Quote by Libba Bray

“memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it…

— Colm Tóibín

“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! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys…

— Anonymous

“One of the things that helps use cope with loss is the fact that while memories may remian, the emotions associated with them will…

— James Pratt

“In dreams lie forgotten lifetimes of joy and torment, leaving only the shadow of memory.”

— Kenneth Calhoun

“Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them…

— Irene Nemirovsky

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris

“Trying to forget is an everlasting act of remembering”

— Roberto Muniz Dias

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

— Rabih Alameddine

“Feeling lost is not the same as being forgotten. It just means you are in a place God already knows by heart.”

— Ibrahim B. Amunikoro

“Memory, which so confounds our waking life with anticipation and regret, may well be our one earthly consolation when time slips out of joint.”

— Keith Donohue

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth