Memory Quote by Rebecca Stead

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

— Brodi Ashton

“The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it unconsciously.”

— Jostein Gaarder

“You see, I may be trying to forget, but I still remember quite a lot.”

— Stephen King

“But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.”

— Julian Barnes

“Sometimes I try to forget, but in the process of forgetting, I remember why I don't want to forget.”

— Genvieve Miller

“But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.”

— John Fowles

“It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.”

— Lorraine Heath

“Remembering can be almost as good as what actually happens.”

— Kathryn Stockett

“But we can't choose what we forget. The more we try to forget something, the more we end up remembering it.”

— Neal Shusterman

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

— Douglas Wilson

“Sometimes forgetting was just as bad as remembering.”

— Sarah Dessen