Igor Stravinsky Quotes

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

You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

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

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

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

Though one cannot always Remember exactly why one has been happy, There is no forgetting that one was.

I seem to find different material every four to six months and I frequently forget it which is a shame because it would be nice to have a bigger library.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

My wife is troubled by the things I forget. I am troubled by the things she recollects.

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

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

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.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

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

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

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.

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

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.

People forget years and remember moments.