Patricia McCormick Quotes

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

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

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

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

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

Even under normal conditions, how we can distinguish various events, various experiences, and be able to reproduce it later is, of course, a very interesting question and, I think, one that we face in day to day life.

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.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

I never forget, remember that. Not an action, not a name, not a face.

Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

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.

We just want to be remembered before something is set in stone.

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

Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.

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.

The pen will never be able to move fast enough to write down every word discovered in the space of memory. Some things have been lost forever, other things will perhaps be remembered again, and still other things have been lost and found and lost again. There is no way to be sure of any this.

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.

Memory is the basis of every journey.

People are machines of forgetfulness

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

Memory is imagination pinned down.