Forgetting Something Quotes

#1. You think the only thing you can do is leave, but that won't help you. You're forgetting something very important. Actually, you're forgetting two very important things." He paused. "Come to think of it, you're probably forgetting a lot, because you got your head knocked -

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#2. I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.

Charlie Huston

#3. My cat is always looking at me like i am forgetting something crucial and he depends on it

Megan Boyle

#4. People who boast about age are actually forgetting something special. Age is not barrier to or elevator to success; that's the job of vision.

Israelmore Ayivor

#5. Hey, aren't we forgetting something? (Savitar)
Your dignity? (Takeshi)
No, you have me confused with you again. Aren't you supposed to be training him? (Savitar)
So you admit my superiority by deflecting my attention to the neophyte. (Takeshi)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#6. I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.

Eric Halvorsen

#7. The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.)

Laurie Halse Anderson

#8. You're forgetting something iadala. Love is not a consequence. Love is not a choice. Love is a thirst
a need as vital to the soul as water is to the body.

Colleen Houck

#9. She trusted him.
She had faith in him.
And he left her forever.
Something tells me she's not forgetting that anytime soon.

Lisa Schroeder

#10. They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure
of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.

Jill Conner Browne

#11. Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.

John Fowles

#12. The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber! You specifically said, it couldn't see!"
"I know-isn't it wonderful to learn something new?" Umber laughed.

P.W. Catanese

#13. Here I am ... wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end
that there is such a thing as death.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

Nick Hornby

#15. The heart becomes wide by forgetting self, but narrow by thinking of the self and pitying one's self. To gain a wide and broad heart you must have something before you to look upon, and to rest your intelligence upon - and that something is the God-ideal.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#16. Americans like to get rich fast. That this means we go broke fast, too, is something that we have become very good at forgetting. Our ignorance of history is matched only by our unfailing optimism; it's actually part of our optimism.

Jill Lepore

#17. Mourning is not forgetting ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Margery Allingham

#18. Forgetting is something that time takes care of, but forgiveness is an act of volition, and only the sufferer is qualified to make the decision.

Simon Wiesenthal

#19. Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.

Jose Saramago

#20. Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting
still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation.
When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are
rarely the center
of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous
curve.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#21. I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it.

Daniel Radcliffe

#22. I believe that that foolish man of Galilee, Jesus Christ, had something to tell us, to tell me. Not considering his existence here, I would immediately go into despair. Immediately. And forgetting him, I would first despair of the institutional church and its hierarchy, and only later, of the Jews.

Elias Chacour

#23. It's like wearing gloves every time we touch something, and then, forgetting we chose to put them on, we complain that nothing feels quite real.

Mark Nepo

#24. I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.

Nora Ephron

#25. Like it takes so little not only to change something, but to make you forget the way it once was, as well.

Sarah Dessen

#26. It's funny how you can become something merely by forgetting who you once were.

Chrissy Moon

#27. We've all experienced pondering a problem all day long only to find we receive the solution when forgetting about the problem and thinking of something else. When we stop concentrating so hard, we allow our subconscious to flourish, and those who do this more than others are often called geniuses.

James Morcan

#28. The practice of Zen is forgetting the self in the act of uniting with something.

Yamada Koun

#29. I can be like that: forgetting how hard it was to do something after I'm past it.

Andrea Seigel

#30. Laws of silence don't work ... . When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out.

Tennessee Williams

#31. When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#32. Oh, I know. He cares about controlling you, using you, and what else am I forgetting? Oh yeah, claiming you. You're an object to him, something to be won.

H.M. Ward

#33. Looking on oneself as something alien, forgetting the sight, remembering the gaze.

Franz Kafka

#34. I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

Stephen Moyer

#35. Nothing changes, Vasya. Things are, or they are not. Magic is forgetting that something ever was other than as you willed it.

Katherine Arden

#36. There is consequence of our forgetting who we are. Forgetting that we're able to create our environment, from our health to economy to war. Something can be done about everything we perceive as bad, if we so choose. If we are aware of the concept of compassion.

Alanis Morissette

#37. However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

Tony Judt

#38. We're human beings; we're not robots. And face-to-face contact is something totally different than typing a text message and then forgetting about it.

Noam Chomsky

#39. Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.

Maggie Nelson

#40. But forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you.

John Fowles

#41. If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.

C. JoyBell C.

#42. You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.

Ali Rezavand Zayeri

#43. The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.

Roberto Bolano

#44. There have been years where I've had to take a real job and I wrote during slow times and lunches. I think never forgetting how lucky I am to be able to do something I love has really fueled me.

Caroline Leavitt

#45. When you don't grasp something or remember something, I think your mind at last says, "Okay," and part of it accepts this. In the end your mind gets to welcome that deadening. that's what I believe anyway. Half of our memoryloss is by choice.

Anna Smaill

#46. The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.

Donna Lynn Hope

#47. But I reckon that this realm of higher needs, of something more than just forgetting about everyday life, of mere recreation, this realm of needs has been clearly neglected by us.

Krzysztof Kieslowski

#48. You think you want to know something, and then once you do, all you can think about is erasing it from your mind.

Sue Monk Kidd

#49. Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

Sara Zarr