Jay Asher Quotes

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good 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.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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

I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

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.

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

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

The color white is the absence of memory.

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.

...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.

The memory of everything is very soon overwhelmed in time.

Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

The only practical way yet discovered by the world for curing its ills is to forget about them.

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

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.

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

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

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.