Emil Cioran Quotes

Life cannot go on without much forgetting.

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.

Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.

Shame has poor memory.

Remembering is the most overrated thing. Forgetting is far superior.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

There are a lot of times when I walk into a room and forget why I walked in there. I'm going through some studies right now, and I am going to do a brain scan.

At 60, I could do the same things I could do at 30, if I could only remember what those things are.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

People always complain about their memories, never about their minds.

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

I literally forget everything, and, trust me, that's the best thing that you can have.

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

Among our crimes oblivion may be set.

People sometimes forget when you remember, but they always remember when you forget.

Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.

How could you cleanse yourself if you couldn’t forget?

Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all.

You probably wouldn't remember. I probably couldn't forget.

In small letters, someone has written NEVER FORGET on one of the slats. I know it's supposed to be a pledge, but it feels like a curse. Don't we have to forget some of it? Don't we have to forget this feeling? If we don't, how will we live?

He who forgets will be destined to remember.