95 quotes found
“They had learned nothing and forgotten nothing.”
“We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighb...”
“People always talk about how hard it can be to remember things - where they left their keys, or the name of an acquaintance - but no one ever talks about how much effort we put into forgetting. I a...”
“And then, gradually, the memory of her would fade away, I had forgotten the girl of my dream.”
“The important thing for the remembering author is not what he experienced, but the weaving of his memory, the Penelope work of recollection. Or should one call it, rather, the Penelope work of forg...”
“Nothing stays forgotten for long, Elly. Sometimes we simply have to remind the world that we're still here.”
“So one can lose a good ideaby not writing it down, yet by losing it one can have it: it nourishes other asidesit knows nothing of, would not recognize itself in, yet when the negotiationsare termin...”
“How much of this day have you already forgotten?”
“To remember is to rewrite. To photograph is to replace. The only reliable memories, I suppose, are the ones that have been forgotten. They are the dark rooms of the mind. Unopened, untouched, and u...”
“Memory is the enemy of wonder”
“The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered.”
“We want so badly to be happy to live the kinds of lives that we always hoped wed live that we give gifts to ourselves by remembering things not as they were, but as we wish they were.”
“The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai Desert...”
“There is a goddess of Memory, Mnemosyne; but none of Forgetting. Yet there should be, as they are twin sisters, twin powers, and walk on either side of us, disputing for sovereignty over us and who...”
“When a memory fails to appear, it seems as though the time when it was created did not really exist, and maybe that is true. Time itself is nothing; only the experience of it is something. When tha...”
“Forgiveness is an attribute we must practice , as we all want the Al-mighty to forgive us. But forgetting and trusting again with a revivifying attitude is undoubtedly stark exhausting . We have a ...”
“One who cannot leave himself behind on the threshold of the moment and forget the past, who cannot stand on a single point, like a goddess of victory, without fear or giddiness, will never know wha...”
“That's just the way it is. I'll always remember. She's forgotten.”
“Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting”
“At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which private life unfolded the gripping show of its adventure...”
