“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

At present I have the feeling I don’t live anywhere. I am suffering complete agony, I, not only don’t live here, I am never even present here.

Marina Tsvetaeva (1892-1941), from a letter to Boris Pasternak June, 21, 1926

"In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world, the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and nothing was true."

- Hannah Arendt