#forget

The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long. ↗

— Natsuo Kirino

#forgetting #mourning #death

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world. ↗

— Amelie Mauresmo

#because #certain #court #difficult #difficult times

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams. ↗

— Stephen King

#memories #sad #dreams

It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything - love, convictions, faith, history - no longer has meaning. The whole mystery of human life resides on the fact that it is spent in the immediate proximity of, and even in direct contact with, that border, that it is separated from it not by kilometers but by barely a millimeter. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#forgetting #meaningless #faith

We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. ↗

— Marc Augé

#memory #oblivion #faith

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#normalcy #the-trouble-with-forgetting #life

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#chiefly #falling #forgetting #how #love

Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#forgetting #memory #wonder #food

It is unfortunate that in most cases when the sins of the father fall on the son it is because unlike God, people refuse to forgive and forget and heap past wrongs upon innocent generations. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#forgive #forgive-and-forget #forgiveness #future-generation #future-generations

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#freedom #memory #freedom