Forgetting Past Quotes

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.

I don't want to talk about the past. I don't live in past.

We forget cruelty and past betrayal, Heedless of where the next bright bolt may fall.

I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

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.

Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

You can't live in the past, and I don't. I'm not nostalgic about my own work, at all.

I don't live in the past. And besides, there are too many times in my career to remember specific events, because I played so many games.

I don't have a rear-view mirror.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

A Church which has lost its memory is in a sad state of senility.

Maybe the past is supposed to fade-and that's actually a kindness of human memory.

It is the great arrogance of the present to forget the intelligence of the past

I never went to high school reunions. My thing is, out of sight, out of mind. That's my attitude toward life. So I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past.

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

The most memorable is always the current one. The rest just merge into a sea of blondes. (On wives)

I think my most happy and carefree state was 2012 because I really did say, 'Forget everything. I'm going to play for myself.'

Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.

People can remember their childhood, but events from four or five years ago are in a never-never land.

As far as my mental approach, I really think it's just knowing that the past is really irrelevant.

we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been

I find inspiration by feeling like I haven't done or achieved anything. I push all songs I've written to the furthest part of my mind so I am not thinking of what I've done. I continue to think on what I need to do.