Erasing Memories Quotes

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the lore of the transmigration of souls is a true one, then these, between their exchange of bodies, must pass through the sea of forgetfulness.

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

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.

I have a lot of things that people say about me on the Internet. I have bad things that I don't want to remember now. It's hard to delete.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.

Illiterate him, I say, quite from your memory.

Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records.

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

The question that comes up a lot is, if you had the chance to erase your memory of something specific, what would you erase? And my answer has always been, I wouldn't erase anything, personally. In some ways, I almost wouldn't want to erase anything from the public consciousness, either, for the same reason.