Basil of Caesarea Quotes

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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

Memory sometimes makes merciful deletions.

It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

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

Normal people have nothing to forget.

I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

To be able to forget means sanity.

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.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

My memory's pretty much gone.

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

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.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

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

Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s.

You don't just forget things overnight.

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

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

For once a thing is known, it can never be unknown. It can only be forgotten.