Julia Leigh Quotes

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

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

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.

In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

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

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

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

I don’t remember.

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.

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

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

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

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

All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and forgotten it.

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.