All Quotes By Tag: Forgetting
“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”
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“Everything started as nothing.”
“In years past, a person died, and eventually all those with memories of him or her also died, bringing about the complete erasure of that person’s existence. Just as the human body returned to dust, mingling with atoms of the natural world, a person’s existence would return to nothingness.How very clean.Now, as if in belated punishment for the invention of writing, any message once posted on the Internet was immortal. Words as numerous as the dust of the earth would linger forever in their millions and trillions and quadrillions and beyond.”
“And when suddenlythe god stopped her and, with anguish in his cry,uttered the words: ‘He has turned round’ –she comprehended nothing and said softly: ‘Who?”
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“Then one morning she’d begun to feel her sorrow easing, like something jagged that had cut into her so long it had finally dulled its edges, worn itself down. That same day Rachel couldn’t remember which side her father had parted his hair on, and she’d realized again what she’d learned at five when her mother left – that what made losing someone you loved bearable was not remembering but forgetting. Forgetting the small things first, the smell of the soap her mother had bathed with, the color of the dress she’d worn to church, then after a while the sound of her mother’s voice, the color of her hair. It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief that was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree’s heartwood. (51)”
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“The disadvantage of always understanding people is that you care more about others and eventually forgetting yourself.”
“What the waking and the healthy seem to have forgotten, the sleeping and the sick remember.”
“But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.”
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“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
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“The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.”
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“Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten.”
“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it’s true. It’s a new world every heart beat.”
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“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly.That’s human action on the outside world.We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget;And the sun is always punctual every day.(5/7/14)”
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“Do not allow me to forget you”
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“This time I wouldn’t forget him, because I couldn’t ever forgive him – for breaking my heart twice.”
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