Tom Rachman Quotes

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

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

Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

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.

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

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

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

I have a great 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.

Remembering. Forgetting. I'm not sure which is worse.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

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

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

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

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

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.

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

The very effort to forget teaches us to remember.

Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget.

To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

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

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.