Alice Hoffman Quotes

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

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

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Forgetting’s not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn’t happen to me.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.

I don't know their names. Their names have been erased from my memory banks. If I tried to bring 'em back, I'd get shocked.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

Continents of memory had been lost.

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

If we forget our past, we won't remember our future and it will be as well because we won't have one.