“It was just one of those days for him to forget and me to remember.”

“For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.”

Christopher Hitchens Mortality

“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.”

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist

“We remember the good times and the bad ones, forgetting that most times are neither good nor bad. They just are.”

Brandon Sanderson book The Way of Kings

“When I am laid, am laid in earth,
May my wrongs create
No trouble, no trouble in thy breast;
Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.
Remember me, but ah! forget my fate.”

Nahum Tate (1652–1715) Anglo-Irish poet and playwright

“Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.”

Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) writer, actress; Romanian princess

“When I remember those difficult days, I remember the fear, I remember the strength, I remember that hand of that fellow American soldier, reassuring me that I was going to be okay.”

Jessica Lynch (1983) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal

“One forgets
that one is one.
I must try
to
remember this.”

Mark Z. Danielewski book House of Leaves

“in time of daffodils(who know
the goal of living is to grow)
forgetting why, remember how

in time of lilacs who proclaim
the aim of waking is to dream,
remember so(forgetting seem)

in time of roses(who amaze
our now and here with paradise)
forgetting if, remember yes

in time of all sweet things beyond
whatever mind may comprehend,
remember seek(forgetting find)

and in a mystery to be
(when time from time shall set us free)
forgetting me, remember me”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet