Mardy Grothe Quotes

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

People are machines of forgetfulness

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

Memory is man's greatest friend and worst enemy.

Memory is the thing you forget with.

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.

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

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

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

Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

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

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

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

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

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.

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

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.

People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.

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

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.