And we forget because we must and not because we will.

And we forget because we must
And not because we will

Matthew Arnold, ‘Absence’ (1852)

Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget.

And each day brings it's pretty dust,
Our soon-choked souls to fll
And we forget because we must,
And not because we will.

We forget what we already have, don

Our struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.

Why do I not forget?

We forget what we have heard if we do not write it down.

funny how easily we forget the good times while the nightmares haunt us. Guess that’s a survival mechanism. We’re not here to be happy; we’re just here to be here.

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings