Forgetting The Pain Quotes

“I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Pink Smog

“Memory repression thrives in shame, secrecy, and shock. The shame and degradation experienced during sexual assault is profound, especially for children who have no concept of what is happening to them or why. Sexual abuse is so bizarre and horrible that the frightened child feels compelled to bury the event deep inside his or her mind.”
― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse

“Life became colourful and wild as Ada danced through night and day. She danced so fiercely that she forgot what day it was or even her own name.”
― Meara O'Hara, The Wanderess and her Suitcase

“Forgetting is not forgetting
Forgetting is ‘Letting things pass’

When Existence opens up to Essence
And rises above and beyond
The path of Transcendence opens

Love goes beyond Death
The body disappears
The person lives
In Love

And in this Love
Remembrance is born
(Page 91)”
― Neena Verma, A Mother's Cry... A Mother's Celebration

“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

“Putting into the dragon had helped in the same way that cutting off an infected limb helped. Being rid of it was not the same as being healed of it.”
― Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest