Janet Fitch Quotes

Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

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

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

Continents of memory had been lost.

Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.

The color white is the absence of memory.

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

I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

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.

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

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

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours´ sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.

Too much to take in, too much to purge. Why must every memory, once sweet, dead end in such ugliness?

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

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

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

I have the worst memory in the world. I can remember some of my dreams, but later that day, i'll forget them.

We are living in the United States of Alzheimer's. A whole country has lost its memory. When it can't remember yesterday, a country forgets what it once wanted to be.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

What we learned here is love tastes bitter when it's gone.

I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.