Body Quote by Sholem Asch

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

— Anonymous

Memory has no power but what the soul chooses to make of it.

— Carol Berg

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

— Milan Kundera

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places…

— Stefan Zweig

Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.

— Michael Ignatieff

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

— Erich Maria Remarque

Memory is the power to revive again in our minds those ideas which after imprinting have disappeared, or have been laid aside out of…

— John Locke

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

— Margot Livesey

Remembering the past gives power to the present.

— Fae Myenne Ng

“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

“The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We will not "forget" so as to be able to rejoice; we will rejoice and therefore let those memories (of wrongs suffered) slip out…

— Miroslav Volf