Forgetting the Past Quotes

Time past, even God is deprived of the power of recalling.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

I'm the kind of person who does not remember bad things.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

By the River Piedra I sat down and wept. There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.

I never look in the rearview mirror.

Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that must first be forgotten. Memory is not fully itself when it reaches only into the past. A memory that is not alive to the present does not remember the here and now, does not remember its true identity, is not memory at all. He who remembers nothing but facts and past events, and is never brought back into the present, is a victim of amnesia.

And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.

There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.

My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.

I'm not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn't do us any good whatsoever.

The hardest thing I do on stage is to self-induce amnesia. I want to go on every night and say, 'I've never sat in this chair. I've never been in this room.'

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

What I did before in my career you can pretty much throw out the window. Out of sight, out of mind.

My only regret is the media's obsession with the past.

It will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

The past has an undeniable grip on everyone, except, perhaps, amnesiacs.

Forgetfulness, the unhistorical, is ... the atmosphere, in which alone life can come into being. In order to understand it, let us imagine a youth who is seized with a passion for a woman, or a man who is swayed by a passion for his work. In both cases what lies behind them has ceased to exist and yet this state (the most unhistorical that can be imagined) is that in which every action, every great deed is conceived and accomplished.

Sometimes he felt sure that the key to happiness was a poor memory.

To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.