Habits Quote by Viet Thanh Nguyen

“After a lifetime of living by his wits and his considerable memory, he had given himself full time to the profession of forgetting.”

— John le Carré

“Only in the desert can forgotten things still flourish.”

— Stacie Shannon Denetsosie

“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

“about one’s life; memories are unreliable—they smudge, and fade, like disappearing footprints in the sand. We’re too busy standing in the middle of it…

— Pat Summitt

“He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all…

— Stefan Zweig

“Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to life.”

— Rabih Alameddine

“He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would…

— Andrei Platonov

“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”

— Richard Flanagan

“He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.”

— Heywood Broun

“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

“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one must view…

— Ashim Shanker

“He would roam about the world carrying his recollections with him, and perhaps some day he would come to forget them, for one can…

— Vicente Blasco Ibáñez