Top 36 Forget Quickly Quotes
#1. That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.
Joseph Roth
#2. These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
Peter Straub
#3. Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.
Hannah Arendt
#4. Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.
James Wood
#5. Humans were made to work in sweet to earn a living. Those that try to get rich or live at the expense of others all get divine retribution somewhere along the line. That's the lesson. unfortunately we forget the lessons quickly and then we have to learn them all over again.
Jet Black
#6. Katherine, how quickly you forget that I never give up when I want something. And right now, I've decided what I want is you. I want you next to me twenty-four-seven, at least until I've sated the desire you left me with. Then, I may actually let you sleep. -Joseph
Melody Anne
#8. And if he forgets them so quickly," Wendy argued, "how can we expect that he will go on remembering us?
James M. Barrie
#9. A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.
Lynne Rae Perkins
#10. But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation?
William Makepeace Thackeray
#11. The older you get, the more swiftly the years pass. It's easy to forget how quickly people die.
Joe Abercrombie
#12. For the human memory is short, and even when we write it in stone we quickly forget and the stones crumble and even those stones then forget.
Stant Litore
#13. If you've just stared into the abyss, quickly forget it: the lessons of history can only hold you back.
Seth Klarman
#14. You okay, baby? Cold"
"I'm fine." I glance quickly behind us and see the two security guys, whose names I forget, standing close by.
Moving me in front of him, Christian puts both his arms around me in my shoulder.
E.L. James
#15. If on paper one would say, "You're gonna spend three weeks in Death Valley," you say, "No, I'm not going to be able to." Very often, very quickly you forget about it.
Isabelle Huppert
#16. Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
Alice Hoffman
#17. The same (hated) man will be loved after he's dead. How quickly we forget.
Horace
#18. People quickly forget that people are people.
Jack Tatum
#19. Someone had told him one day that you forget the voices of those whom you have been close to in the past very quickly.
Patrick Modiano
#20. Digestion is quickly shut down during stress ... The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the actions of digestion. Along comes stress: turn off parasympathetic, turn on the sympathetic, and forget about digestion.
Robert M. Sapolsky
#21. 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
#22. Occasionally there are people who are not like me, and I forget that they're more introverted or shy, or just don't want to make a decision so quickly.
Wayne Coyne
#23. People quickly forget evil because they still haven't created a language to describe it so the world refuses to carry the burden, preferring to forget.
Semezdin Mehmedinovic
#24. The ghost of a smile appeared on her face. Learn to love the moment you are in. Treasure your experiences, for precious moments too quickly pass you by, and if you are always rushing toward the future, or pining for the past, you will forget to enjoy and appreciate the present.
Colleen Houck
#25. The most important thing is to get the fish in quickly and leave it in the water. Forget the hero pose.
Yvon Chouinard
#26. I do think that men can forget a lost love quickly. I know that women would find it much harder.
Jane Austen
#27. Countries under foreign command quickly forget their history, their past, their tradition, their national symbols, their way of living, often their own literary language.
Slobodan Milosevic
#28. However, embarrassment was quickly replaced with a completely different emotion all together when I heard him say the words that I knew I was never going to forget, "I'm going to marry that girl one day."
And in that moment ... I knew that I was falling in love.
Karli Perrin
#29. We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
Saul Bellow
#30. For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.
Daniel Quinn
#31. We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.
Robin Ince
#32. What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.
Gichin Funakoshi
#33. If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.
Paulo Coelho
#34. How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.
Honeya
#35. How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
David Wilkerson
#36. Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
Gary Wolf
