Jules Renard Quotes

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.

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

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

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

The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.

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.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

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

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

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

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

I'm very good at forgetting people.

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

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

We forget how quickly the American people forget.

The mistakes you made you tend to conveniently forget

Forget whatever should be forgotten, so that you can remember what should be remembered

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

Continents of memory had been lost.