Forgetting The Past Quotes

“You’re just another story I can’t tell anymore.”
― pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You

“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”
― Alyson Noel, The Immortals Boxed Set

“I HOLD

If I could have had
him,
I could have let
him
go.

But without
the having
there was
nothing—
so to the nothing
I
hold.”
― Coco J. Ginger

“My name will be Edith Proir," she says. "And there is much I am happy to forget.”
― Veronica Roth, Insurgent

“I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.”
― Richard Paul Evans, Grace

“Let's not let this be your life tonight," he says. "Let's get back in the car and pretend we're driving away because we want to... not because we need to. We can pretend I'm taking you somewhere amazing... somewhere you've always wanted to go. You can snuggle up to me and we can talk about how excited we are and we'll talk about everything we'll do when we get there. We can talk about the important stuff later. But tonight... let's not let this be your life.”
― Colleen Hoover, Hopeless

“For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“Even a spineless anthropod sheds what's no longer useful and leaves it behind them. Are you not greater than they?”
― Jason Versey

“The only things we never forget
are the ones we never possessed.”
― Laura Chouette

“Remembering everything is not the only solution. Perhaps, forgetfulness can make us live in peace too.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo

“Perhaps no word exists in our terribly inadequate English language to name this abstract, emotional thing that is not forgiveness, is not forgetting, and also is both.”
― Janisse Ray, Wild Spectacle: Seeking Wonders in a World Beyond Humans

“Long before there were digital photos and digital manipulation, there were scissors. A simple pair of scissors could remove history, remove the truth. Sometimes the truth behind a picture doesn't have to be cut out. You just have to keep quiet about it.”
― Mike Hawthorne, Happiness Will Follow

“If you forget the path traveled, you will forget the path to travel”
― Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“People forget the ladder which raised them and remember the pillar which hold them”
― P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

“You can't forget a person, so don't even try that. because you're indirectly reminding your mind of that person. by accepting the fact and the reality that, the person is no more attached to your present will lead you towards your goal but in a different way. So, Just go with the flow.”
― SiD

“My life there was entirely new, and as near to a cliché as I could make it. I was drawn to those parts of the city where one could find the most tourists so I could throw myself into their center. It was a hectic form of forgetting, and I spent the summer in pursuit of it: of losing myself in swarms of travelers, allowing myself to be wiped clean of all personality and character, of all history. The more crass the attraction, the more I was drawn to it.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“I understand that you are claiming it is almost impossible to forgive, but only easier to forget. The truth is that, you can only forgive that which you have forced your mind to forget. We must forget first, then
forgiveness will come by itself.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“Forgetting the person who you Love is much Better than hating them.”
― Pradip Bendkule

“No matter the challenge that you face in life, your joy and happiness cannot be touched except you allow it.”
― Dele Andersen

“Penance, prayer, power none is capable of killing the past.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We are quick to forgive and forget about the past, or our memories when we find the present satisfying.”
― Mwanandeke Kindembo, Treatise Upon The Misconceptions of Narcissism

“The scar is gone, but the cut will never be forgotten.”
― Huguens Noel, 180 Degrees of Consciousness

“There is an ancient Arab proverb that says, 'You should write the bad things that happen to you in the sand; that way they can be easily erased from your memory.”
― Anthony J. Does, Blurry Daydream: When Faith Feels Like Make Believe

“So much time and energy is wasted when we worry about the past. Every time we walk back into yesterday's yarn we get tangled up in its woolly story. We were not created by God with an extra set of eyes on the back of our head because God did not intend for us to keep looking backwards. Don't rehearse your reverse. The Apostle Paul got it right when he said, 'I press on'. Press on, beyond the past, into your tomorrow.”
― Anthony J. Does, Blurry Daydream: When Faith Feels Like Make Believe

“It feels like every reference he makes, every little word, catapults me back there, to a place that doesn't really exist anymore.”
― Eric Smith

“This will not last forever. One day soon it will be over and a week or a month after that it will seem as though it were no more than a dream. A nightmare, perhaps. But not something real. That's the remarkable thing about humanity; our capacity to forget.”
― T.M Cicinski, The Mind Is Its Own Place

“We must forget what they said if it causes us to forget who we are.”
― Zara Hairston

“There's more things in the world that are old and deep than these men of philosophy and science we're infested with these days can admit of. Forgotten, maybe, by most; not the same as being gone.”
― Brian Ruckley, The Edinburgh Dead

“I can no longer deny that bad things happened to me. I can’t be absolutely sure what happened to me, or who did them to me: I can’t ‘prove’ that 100%. But I have enough evidence to be able to state unequivocally that a lot of bad things happened to me from a very young age for a very long time.”
― Carolyn Spring

“Like a moth is drawn to the light we are drawn to melancholy, we succumb to it.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights