Forgetting Things Quotes

#1. Are you still forgetting things?" "I don't know, I can't remember," I said.

Stephen King

#2. Forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

Peg Bracken

#3. 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

#4. I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I don't like the physical side of getting older and I don't like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I'd take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever.

Ray Martin

#5. He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.

Heywood Broun

#6. I always feel like I'm forgetting things.

Jon Glaser

#7. It's hard to feel smart when you're always forgetting things, but Mama Shannon says that's how you can tell a smart person. They're too busy thinking about Big Ideas to worry about little details like tying their shoes or remembering their homework" -Fella

Sarah Dooley

#8. I wasn't a very good waitress, always spilling things on people and forgetting things. I once spilled ashes all over Mike Wallace's table.

Tracy Pollan

#9. Names are just our way of forgetting things.

Marty Rubin

#10. When I think back to my childhood, it's with a mixture of amusement and embarrassment. I was always forgetting things. My mum called me scatty because I could never sit still. But there was no sense I was suffering from a medical condition as such.

Rory Bremner

#11. We are all capable of fighting for what has little value while forgetting things of transcendent value.

Paul David Tripp

#12. I've started to have dreams while I'm awake. I remember music I've never heard ... I've got all this extra stuff in my head, but I'm forgetting things from my own life. I feel like I'm being taken over.

Bryony Pearce

#13. In the treaty were provisions for the hundred thousand veterans left maimed and irrevocably mute throughout the city. As is the way of things, their sacred places and comforts have dwindled to a lonely strip of shoreline and a polite nod whenever they are passed in the street.

Catherynne M Valente

#14. Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

Evelyn Underhill

#15. Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

Mother Teresa

#16. It comes, I suppose," I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, "of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don't always stay where you put them.

Naomi Novik

#17. Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.

Amy Hempel

#18. Were I still the man Eo knew, I would have stood frozen in horror. But that man is gone. I mourn his passing every day. Forgetting more and more of who I was, what dreams I held, what things I loved. The sadness now is numb. And I carry on despite the shadow it casts over me. The

Pierce Brown

#19. Honestly facing your lack of sovereignty over your own life produces either anxiety or relief. Anxiety is God-forgetting. It is the result of thinking that is life is on your shoulders, that it is your job to figure it all out and keep things in order.

Paul David Tripp

#20. Always we learn things and then we forget them.

Dave Eggers

#21. Every now and then, if I allow my mental focus to slip, I catch myself looking at her face and forgetting how to breathe. I guess these things take time to fade completely.

Melissa Keil

#22. Maybe if I forgot things once in a while, we'd all be a little bit happier.

Jay Asher

#23. The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#24. There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.

Frank Herbert

#25. They say every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things. There is only the present and nothing to remember.

Jeanette Winterson

#26. Things that give you heart are rare enough, better note them in your head when you find them and not forget.

Sebastian Barry

#27. but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." (Philippians 3:13-14)

Norman Vincent Peale

#28. Things are best that way, Deoga. Forgetting, not remembering. You Farangs become encumbered with your past. The past drives you mad. It keeps you from acting sensibly.

John Speed

#29. O, the things we kill for our dreams, forgetting all the while we shall wake up to find them naught but dust and ash!
What fools we are to pretend that when we walk to war, we do not bring our loved ones with us.

Robert Jackson Bennett

#30. Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#31. The existence of forgetting has never been proved: we only know that some things do not come to our mind when we want them to. - FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE B

Susannah Cahalan

#32. Thank God it's not, or your father would never have been conceived." "Ew! Grandma, ew! Don't say things like that! How can you say things like that with your face? Your actual grandma face? You're supposed to be all innocent and baking cookies and forgetting that sex was ever a part of your life.

Seanan McGuire

#33. Friends, she had realized, could make you do that. Forget the things that worried you most.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#34. About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

Lucio Russo

#35. I was staring to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place, reciting the incantation. It was the magic of forgetting.

Francesca Lia Block

#36. Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.

Nenia Campbell

#37. The problem of forgetting might not torment us so much if we could only convince ourselves that remembering isn't important. Perhaps the things we learn - words, dates, formulas, historical and biographical details - don't really matter. Facts can be looked up. That's what the Internet is for.

Gary Wolf

#38. Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

Diane Sawyer

#39. I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

Maisie Williams

#40. Almost all of the finer things in life are free or nearly free. You don't have to pay for the sky at night or snow in the morning or a kiss on the nose when you're sick. Forgetting that may put you at the mercy of those who seek to profit by convincing you to want whatever it is they have to sell.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#41. The little things you forget, kill me.

Pleasefindthis

#42. I was starting to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place. It was the magic of forgetting.

Francesca Lia Block

#43. He got up slowly, not bothering to curse himself for forgetting the stop where he had to disembark. He was not used to leaving things behind; he wondered how the bus stop escaped.

Faraaz Kazi

#44. Too few of us, perhaps, feel that breaking of bread, the sharing of salt, the common dipping into one bowl, mean more than satisfaction of a need. We make such primal things as casual as tunes heard over a radio, forgetting the mystery and strength in both.

M.F.K. Fisher

#45. To forget would mean the things we never knew
had never waited to be known, never waited
to be forgotten, had never been; waiting
beneath the long dead stars
in time. . .

John Daniel Thieme

#46. 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

#47. The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

Daniel J. Levitin

#48. There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

John Boyne

#49. I wot well you are more more godly in such-like things that I can ever be - yet, Kristin, 'tis hard for me to see how it should be a right reading of God's word to go on, as your way is, ever storing up wrath and never forgetting.

Sigrid Undset

#50. It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.

Christina Baker Kline

#51. We in the Hispanic community are truly tired of both the Democrats and the Republicans promising all of these things during the campaigns and then forgetting about it after the campaigns are over.

Jorge Ramos

#52. I missed you more now than I had when I lost you. I was forgetting the bad things faster than I forgot the good, and the changing ratio felt a little bit like falling in love even though I was actually speaking to you less and less.

Alexandra Kleeman

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

Katherine Arden

#54. We're all too apt to think that things are as we feel them to be, forgetting that they have an objective value apart from what we feel about them. An embittered mind colors the world black for its owner yet that does not alter the fact that the world is a treasure house of beauty and love.

Elizabeth Goudge

#55. But that man is gone. I mourn his passing every day. Forgetting more and more of who I was, what dreams I held, what things I loved. The sadness now is numb. And I carry on despite the shadow it casts over me.

Pierce Brown

#56. They were a delicious bunch but always forgetting the sensible things like food and daylight and remembering only the more intoxicating ones like love and gin.

Rachel Joyce

#57. Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Albert J. Nock

#58. Forgetting the things that lie behind, I will strive towards my higher spiritual possibilities. I dedicate myself anew to the service of the Coming One and will do all I can to prepare men's minds and hearts for that event. I have no other life intention.

Alice Bailey

#59. You can lose your past by forgetting it but you can never lose your future because you can lose only the things you already own!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#60. So excuse me forgetting, but these things I do
You see I've forgotten, if they're green or they're blue
Anyway, the thing is, what I really mean
Yours are the sweetest eyes, I've ever seen.

Elton John

#61. Forgiveness is a spiritual exercise that has to do with many things, but forgetting is not among them.

Colin Tipping

#62. Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new ... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.

Kirsten Hubbard

#63. I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.

Theo De Raadt

#64. We've never thought too deeply about the roles things like forgetting or partisanship or inefficiency or ambiguity or hypocrisy play in our political or social life. It's been impossible to get rid of them, so we took them for granted, and we kind of thought, naively, that they're always the enemy.

Evgeny Morozov

#65. Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.

Oscar Wilde

#66. I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

Gordon Bell

#67. Of all the things you said I couldn't do
forgetting you has been the easiest ...

Sanhita Baruah

#68. Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.

Haruki Murakami

#69. Various kinds of self-forgetting, usually accompanied by illusions and myths, make it possible to live without the intransigent facing of death-in the sense of always thinking about it and what it means for life and the things dear in life-which is characteristic of a serious life.

Allan Bloom

#70. There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot - that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes.

Arundhati Roy

#71. You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.

C. JoyBell C.

#72. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

H. Rider Haggard

#73. Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.

Marty Rubin

#74. When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.

Bill Walton

#75. We did a Tarot
card reading. She told me different things, most of them depressing and
worth forgetting. But what I'll always remember is her prediction of my
death, and how I'd become a kind of ghost, 'wandering' she said, with a
'spiritual restlessness'.

Keith Steinbaum

#76. Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands.

John Boyne

#77. You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

Alison Croggon

#78. Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.

Elizabeth Lesser