Jilly Cooper Quotes

Generally people forget the past and the path they took.

I don't remember what I did fifty years ago.

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

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

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

People do not connect with what happened last week, let alone what happened 20 years ago.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.

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

Remind a man of what he remembers, and you will make him forget it.

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

I feel that there is no such thing as ultimate forgetting; traces once impressed upon the memory are indestructible.

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

He who forgets will be destined to remember.

He forgets that he was someone's dream once, himself.

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

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

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

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

I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them....But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

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.

To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.