Forgetting Quotes

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

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.

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

Do not allow me to forget you

Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain.

And when suddenly
the god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry,
uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ –
she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?

Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.

...first, in order to remember, something must be forgotten; second, the place where memories are stored has no boundaries. In other words, forgetting is a twin; its tandem effect is best called "simultancous" distraction, the instant when one memory defoliates another. This fuzzy double - one devouring the other - presumably inhibits learning

I don't believe time heals. I don't want it to. If I heal, doesn't that mean I've accepted the world without her?

Everything started as nothing.

But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.

To forget would mean the things we never knew
had never waited to be known, never waited
to be forgotten, had never been; waiting
beneath the long dead stars
in time. . .

. . .the sorrows of the heart yearn
to be erased, for one final atonement
finite and forgetting and whole - but time in its preserving
will not permit forgetting; destroying
only when we can no longer beg
or argue with time
to preserve the brief benisons
a few moments longer than our sins

. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their names
written across the sky as ogham threads are traced
between the stars