Forgetful Quotes

#1. The appearance of mediocrity is often useful in life because it weakens tautly strung strings and sobers up people's self-confident or self-forgetful feelings, reminding them how close they are to mediocrity as well.

Ivan Turgenev

#2. Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

Jason Mraz

#3. We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego.

Swami Vivekananda

#4. Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

Howard Nemerov

#5. Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#6. The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful, to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.

Seamus Heaney

#7. Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago ...

George Burns

#8. Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

Dave Eggers

#9. My grandfather's a little forgetful, but he likes to give me advice. One day, he took me aside and left me there.

Ron Richards

#10. Henry's worldly goal at the moment was drinking enough beer to be happy and forgetful.

Anna Godbersen

#11. 1. Deodorant CAN be perfume.

This was almost the title of this book. I carry travel-sized deodorants in my bags, because I'm self-conscious about how I smell and I'm forgetful when it comes to basic hygiene.

Grace Helbig

#12. Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful.

William Shakespeare

#13. We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

Nhat Hanh

#14. Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

Benjamin Haydon

#15. Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. All our human endeavours are like that, she reflected, and it is only because we are too ignorant to realize it, or are too forgetful to remember it, that we have the confidence to build something that is meant to last.

Alexander McCall Smith

#17. I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

Ryan Tedder

#18. April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.
Summer surprised us.

T. S. Eliot

#19. Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

Charles Caleb Colton

#20. Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J.K. Rowling

#21. I should acquaint the reader with the basic principles of the mythology I adhered to then. I believed ... that inanimate objects were no less fallible than people. They, too, could be forgetful. And, if you had enough patience, you could catch them by surprise.

Stanislaw Lem

#22. Ah, is this thing that you call tinola a variety of lotus which makes people - er - forgetful?

Jose Rizal

#23. Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

Kamala Markandaya

#24. Of the wickedness of the world he was too forgetful. To discover evil in a new friend is to most people only an additional experience: to him it was ever a surprise.

Thomas Hardy

#25. I'm insane, not forgetful.

Rachel Caine

#26. Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.

George Santayana

#27. We fly forgotten as a dream, certainly, leaving the forgetful world behind us to trample and mar and misplace everything we have ever cared for. That is just the way of it, and it is remarkable.

Marilynne Robinson

#28. When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Harvey Stanbrough

#29. The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

John Milton

#30. Whenever a thought occurs, be aware of it, as soon as you are aware of it, it will vanish. If you remain for a long period forgetful of objects, you will naturally become unified. This is the essential art of zazen.32

Yi Wu Taigen Leighton

#31. Corey Bryant sank into a great forgetful river, and that river was time, and its waters were red.

Stephen King

#32. What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

Nick Laird

#33. Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

T. S. Eliot

#34. For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed.

Rumi

#35. And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Heraclitus

#36. I routinely inform people when I meet them that I am like a real life version of Dory the fish, as I am very forgetful and have problems tracking conversations.

Steven Magee

#37. As he left, he decided not to go back, as it was too easy to lose himself in there, as if the woman had cast a forgetful spell over the place.

Sarah Holman

#38. Man is only a forgetful mortal, but God - He sees, hears and remembers everything.

Suzy Kassem

#39. But we believe that the Octavo must be read to avert catastrophe - otherwise why did the Creator leave it behind?" "Perhaps He was just forgetful," suggested the astrologer.

Terry Pratchett

#40. I'm forgetful by nature and often ask family, friends, and co-workers the same question.

Mallory Ortberg

#41. As I am both lazy and forgetful, I can't take proper care of too many things. That's why I want to cherish properly the things I love.

Marie Kondo

#42. The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

Angelus Silesius

#43. The sky peeled back for a moment, and a weak ray of sunset spilled over the scene like the diseased eye of some forgetful god
the light bearing with it cold in place of heat.

Luis Alberto Urrea

#44. Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.
Winter kept us warm, covering
Earth in forgetful snow, feeding
A little life with dried tubers.

T. S. Eliot

#45. Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, Please strike here!

George Santayana

#46. Nowadays games immediately appear on the Internet and thus the life of novelties is measured in hours. Modern professionals do not have the right to be forgetful - it is 'life threatening'.

Garry Kasparov

#47. Ultimately, the controversy around PETA may have less to do with the organization than with those of us who stand in judgment of it - that is, with the unpleasant realization that "those PETA people" have stood up for the values we have been too cowardly or forgetful to defend ourselves.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#48. Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.

Heraclitus

#49. Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#50. With the fullness of God, we are free to let humans be humans - fickle and fragile and forgetful.

Lysa TerKeurst

#51. The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

David Bentley

#52. The human being is not a fallen being in need of redemption but rather a forgetful being who must be reminded of God and his own nature.

Joseph E. B. Lumbard

#53. When warriors feel afraid they lack something, it is only because they are forgetful. They have forgotten how capable they truly are.

Mercedes Lackey

#54. That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

Ovid

#55. Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.

Mitch Albom

#56. A man's memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can't do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.

Sebastian Barry

#57. It's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't.

Liz Fichera

#58. That she was now more tired and forgetful, while able to do three times what she had been able to do when she was somewhat less tired and forgetful but also stressed, guilty, grouchy, and overwhelmed, seemed a small price to pay.

Kamy Wicoff

#59. There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he never so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in idleness alone there is perpetual despair.

Thomas Carlyle

#60. As we go forth into the coming year, let it not be in the haste of impetuous, forgetful delight, nor with the quickness of impulsive thoughtlessness . But let us go out with the patient power of knowing that the God of Israel will go before us.

Oswald Chambers

#61. Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

Don Adams

#62. We were bullied, broken, built up, bronzed and polished.
We grew dull, dusty, doubtful, dark, and forgetful.
Yet we still know that we can love deeply.

Antonia Perdu

#63. Till now they send him dreams and no more deed;
So doth he flame again with might for action,
Forgetful of the council of the elders,
Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle,
Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to him
So doth he flame again toward valiant doing.

Ezra Pound

#64. The Internet is fast, while humans are slow; capacious,
while humans are forgetful.

Michael Chorost

#65. I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

John Updike

#66. Mother nature is a fickle and forgetful bitch," she snapped. "She needs a helping hand and I am trying to hurry her along for their sake.

Sabrina Jeffries

#67. Be not forgetful to entertain strangers; for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Serena B. Miller

#68. Forgetful of thy tomb thou buildest houses.

Horace

#69. She might be idle, and silent, and forgetful, - and what seemed more than all other privileges - she might be unhappy if she liked.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#70. the bottom line of assurance comes when you stop analyzing and you look to Christ and you look and you look and you look until Christ himself in his glory and his sufficiency by reflex, as it were, awakens a self-forgetful "Yes!" to him.

John Piper

#71. If an earnest person has roused himself, if he is not forgetful, if his deeds are pure, if he acts with consideration, if he restrains himself, and lives according to law,then his glory will increase.

Max Muller

#72. Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

Homer

#73. I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

Elena Ferrante

#74. Good memory skill is the offspring of good focus. If you find yourself becoming a little forgetful, it is probably not because there is something wrong with your brain. Rather, it is simply because your mind is too cluttered to allow things to stick.

Ilchi Lee

#75. What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

Elizabeth Bishop

#76. No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

Flannery O'Connor

#77. All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river ... In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.

Virgil

#78. The truly gospel-humble person is a self-forgetful person whose ego is just like his or her toes. It just works. It does not draw attention to itself. The toes just work; the ego just works. Neither draws attention to itself.

Timothy Keller

#79. Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#80. Do I forget, or do I refuse to remember?

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#81. The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

Vera Nazarian

#82. ....my brain works like an etch-a-sketch; even the slightest movement causes it to go completely blank.

Quinn Cummings