Trying to forget Quote by Patricia McCormick

“I try to shed what I’ve learned, I try to forget the way I was taught to remember”

— Fernando Pessoa

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the…

— Patricia McCormick

“Remembering is easy. It's forgetting that's hard.”

— Brodi Ashton

“The things I want to remember I can't, and the things I try so hard to forget just keep coming.”

— Paula Hawkins

“But it is growing damp and I must go in. Memory’s fog is rising.”

— Emily Dickinson

“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

“The fact that you can't remember things doesn't mean that you haven't been shaped by them.”

— Douglas Wilson

“When at last I learned forgetting, I learned it very quickly and all too well.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“The ability to forget is a blessing, just like memory is.”

— Marwane Caber

“Some things one doesn’t want to remember.”

— Anne Rice

“[...] 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

“It was like trying to recall a forgotten dream—each time I felt close to remembering where we’d met, the memories slipped away.”

— Michelle Madow