John Fowles Quotes

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

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

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

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

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

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

I can remember much forgetfulness.

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

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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

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

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

My memory's pretty much gone.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

My memory's bad!

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

I've always been forgetful.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

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 literally forget everything, and, trust me, that's the best thing that you can have.

You don't just forget things overnight.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

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

Continents of memory had been lost.

Why is it that we are born remembering, and live forgetting?