Jonathan Safran Foer Quotes

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

I like people who have the capacity to forget. I think that to forget is a good thing. Forgetting is good. But sometimes I cannot. For me, I cannot.

I tell people all the time that it would be good if they forget about me next week, that they don't even mention my name anymore.

...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.

A good forgettery is a happier possession than a good memory.

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

To be forgotten, is to die a little.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

Memories are what you no longer want to remember.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.