Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

When we forgive someone, we do not forget the hurtful act, as if forgetting came along with the forgiveness package, the way strings come with a violin. Begin with the basics. If you forget, you will not forgive at all. You can never forgive people for things you have forgotten about. You need to forgive precisely because you have not forgotten what someone did; your memory keeps the pain alive long after the hurt has stopped. Remembering is the storage of pain. It is why you need to be healed in the first place.

One can forgive but one should never forget.

You can always forgive, you just can't really forget.

If it's hard to remember, it'll be difficult to forget.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

Experience is valuable only when it has brought suffering and when the suffering has left its mark upon both body and mind.

It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

Forgetting lets you live without the pain for a moment but remembering hits hard.

All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.

You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

How can you forgive if you can’t remember to forget?

Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.

The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever.

I took revenge on hardship from my earlier life by forgetting it.

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.

Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you've championed.

Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.

There is hurt that cannot be fixed by band aids or poetrybecause no matter how wide you stretch your fingers, your hands will always be too small to catch all the pain you want to heal. Believe me, I’ve tried.