To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting.

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.

If you work hard enough at something that doesn’t matter, you can forget for a while about the things that do.

I'll just tell you what I remember because memory is as close as I've gotten to building my own time machine.

As she ran, a memory uncurled in her mind and spread out before her and it felt like she was running into the memory.

What better way to try to begin to understand the nature and meaning of human memory than to investigate its absence?

Gonzaga was the kind of place you’d not even think about loving until you’d left it for a couple of years.

She was also a memory, the worst kind of memory--the kind that pulled you to your knees at just the sound of her name.

When men do not forget what can be forgotten but forget what cannot be forgotten - that may be called true forgetting.

Odd as it may seem, I am my remembering self, and the experiencing self, who does my living, is like a stranger to me.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

Until we begin to wipe off the bitter memories from womb of our mind, we'll be living in the prison of embitterment

This [...] isn`t something I actually saw, but what you end up remembering isn`t always the same as what you witnessed.

Well we have to. We have to remember everything. If we don’t, by the time we grow up it’ll be gone forever.

Alcohol helps you to loosen up to make memories you won’t forget, and then it helps you to forget them completely.