Contrary Quote by Plutarch

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

— Romare Bearden

“We are all able to contain our uncomfortable memories to some degree, while there are those who suffer from compulsively remembering in spite of…

— Stanka Gjurić

Memory is the residue of thought

— Daniel T. Willingham

Memory inevitably romanticizes, pressing reality to recede like pain.

— Arthur Miller

Let us remember, so far as we can, that every unpleasant thought is a bad thing literally put into the body.

— Prentice Mulford

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

— Adrian Forty

“Every painful memory you have which keeps recurring is simply your unconscious mind trying to protect you by reminding you of experiences which caused…

— Roger Roger

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but…

— William Hazlitt

The repression of the memory is dependent upon and related to the suppression of feeling, for as long as the feeling persists, the memory…

— Alexander Lowen

After all, memory may be the only thing on earth we can truly manipulate to serve us, so we don't have to look back…

— Steve Toltz

memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast…

— Gail Caldwell

“It's a mistake to think that if we don't remember or don't acknowledge painful experiences they will just disappear. In fact, great damage is…

— Susan Forward