Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

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

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

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

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

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

If I have something I like to forget, then I forget it.

You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.

I have a hot memory, but I know I've forgotten many things, too, just squashed things in favor of survival.

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

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

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

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.

I feel like even if I was to, say, trip and fall over on the way to the car and scratch all my arm, by the time I got in the car, it would be blacked out in my head.

My memory stops at 14.

I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.

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

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

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.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

I forgot to remember to forget.

Memory is a wonderful thing if you don't have to deal with the past.

When you dream, sometimes you remember. When you wake, you always forget.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.