Feels Quote by Thomas de Quincey

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

— Sara Zarr

The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Forgetting is like lighting a candle. The candle slowly disappears but the wax is always there.

— Anonymous

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

— Erich Maria Remarque

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

— Helen Clark MacInnes

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

— Michael Pollan

Repetition is the key weapon against forgetting.

— Ritu Ghatourey

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

— Tom Rachman

Forgetting is a very good survival mechanism.

— George Harrar

It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.

— Aldous Huxley

“Forgetting is what nature does best. The universe is a huge forgetting machine. It erases information no matter how hard we try to hang…

— Carolyn Ives Gilman

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes