Quote by Richard Hytner

“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 is like a great alchemy free of secrets, limpid, transforming everything to the present. In the end it makes our lives into this…

— César Aira

“To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Being able to forget something or someone is being true to yourself”

— Mari Mar P. Manuel

“Describe what is meant by “forgetting.”

— Richard Benson

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

— Anonymous

We practice conscious forgetting by refusing to summon up the fiery material, we refuse to recollect. To forget is an active, not a passive,…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“For humans, being able to 'forget' is what allows them to survive through their cruel and harsh lives.”

— Hotaru Odagiri

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

— Plutarch

“Forgetting means remembering at an inconvenient time.”

— Carol Edgarian

“That's the blessing and the curse of loss: You don't get to choose what falls within the inevitable dissolution of recollection or what lingers…

— Julie Buxbaum

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another…

— Emil Cioran