“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”— Thomas Szasz, amazon.com
“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was angry at herself for forgetting her sadness.”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.”— A. A. Milne, amazon.com
“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”— C. Joybell C., goodreads.com
“Soon I will sleep, and my brain will begin to delete everything. Tomorrow I will go through it all again.”— S. J. Watson, amazon.com
“Indeed if memory helps us to survive, forgetting allows us to go on living. How could we go on with our daily lives, if we remained constantly aware of the dangers and ghosts surrounding us?”— Elie Wiesel, nobelprize.org
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.com
“I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.”— Rachel Vincent, amazon.com
“Sometimes we build such high walls for protection that we forget that our greatest enemy can grow from within.”— Eishes Chayil, amazon.com
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”— J.M. Barrie, amazon.com
“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at…”— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com
“Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com