Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

Memory loss is one way of coping with damage.

It turns out that my memory is just not that great, so for specific scenes with people doing stuff, sometimes I'd have the details all wrong or I couldn't remember what happened exactly, so I just let that be.

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

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

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.

The girls I've dated hate me a little because I can't remember anything about first dates or when we kissed. I have the worst memory in the world!

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

I don't even know my own phone number.

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

What a man can't remember doesn't exist for him.

Too much has been forgotten in the name of memory.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

I had amnesia once or twice.

Dreams feel real while we're in them. It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange.

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.

Hillary Clinton told the FBI 39 times she couldn't remember anything. I couldn't remember, I couldn't remember. Or recall key events concerning illegal server and related misconduct.

When something like this happens, you suddenly have no sense of reality at all. You have lost a piece of your past. The infidelity itself is small potatoes compared to the low-level brain damage that results when a whole chunk of your life turns out to have been completely different from what you thought it was. It becomes impossible to look back at anything that's happened ... without wondering what was really going on.

Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

I am a frustrating interviewee. I'm like Ronald Reagan. I don't remember and I don't recall.

I have terrible short-term memory loss, which I like to think of as Presidential eligibility.

I have no memory, any at all, of actually performing the play, no recall in terms of the lines. I can't tell you any line from any play I've ever done.

I can't read music and I'm crap at learning lyrics. Especially since the accident I have memory problems. I can't remember words, names, places.