I'm Trying To Forget Quotes

#1. I think maybe I'm trying to forget or not be so conscious about plastic circuitry and just go for the feeling.

Mark Linkous

#2. I'm trying to forget just as much as you probably are. Look, I'm not stupid. I know that we can never be the same. But I still wouldn't change anything. It was the plan and it worked. You're not dead and that's worth it to me. Maybe you'll forgive me someday.

James Dashner

#3. I'm trying to forget how much that cost, but I just had to have them.

Keith Sweat

#4. Whether it's a kid in high school who doesn't have any friends and finds friends in my characters, or a guy in Afghanistan, who's trying to forget what he did that day, and trying not to think about what he's gotta do tomorrow ... I give them a little bit of an escape.

R.A. Salvatore

#5. Forget worrying about the break-up of celebrities you don't even know. I have long since given up trying to figure out why even my closest friends split up.

John Niven

#6. If I do tell you the story, the two of us will always share it. And I don't know if that's the right thing to do. if I lift open the lid now, you'll be implicated. Is that what you want? You really want to know something I've sacrificed so much trying to forget?

Haruki Murakami

#7. It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

Markus Zusak

#8. I looked over at Maisey who seemed as if she was trying to remember and forget something all at the same time.

Chris Cole

#9. I remember as a little boy I ate one meal a day and sometimes slept in the street. I will never forget that and it inspires me to fight hard, stay strong and remember all the people of my country, trying to achieve better for themselves.

Manny Pacquiao

#10. It's the song of a man trying to forget a woman, but then he realizes it's impossible, that not being with her is harmful and he dies of despair, not knowing whether she still wants to be with him.

Amanda Laneley

#11. I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.

Michel Gondry

#12. But a haiku by Buson came into his mind: 'I try to forget this senile love; a chilly autumn shower.' The gloom only grew denser.

Yasunari Kawabata

#13. For years I'd been trying to forget ... , locking it up and burying it deep in my memory. The journey ... had shattered that, bringing it all back - but now that I'd faced it, I found to my surprise that the fear had been worse than the reality.

Benedict Jacka

#14. I've spent many dark nights trying to forget about Cricket. It doesn't feel fair that he could have forgotten about me.

Stephanie Perkins

#15. Ever since that night I've been on the road Travelling and trying to forget That awful night I lost all my friends I see their faces yet.

Phil Coulter

#16. I think all these great comforts that come from the human condition of trying to make things easier on ourselves also have these pitfalls, where things become so easy that we forget how enjoyable building a fence can be.

Nick Offerman

#17. Trying to remember, I have learned, is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the monsoon.

Patricia McCormick

#18. When I get on the World Cup tour, I'm kind of disconnected from the world. I just kind of get wrapped up in my world and wrapped up in trying to ski fast every day, and I forget about everything else.

Lindsey Vonn

#19. I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

Eric Burdon

#20. The truth is, I would've felt empty anywhere. I realize now that through a million moments of adventure and excitement, I was only trying to make up for the one moment I wanted to forget.

Melissa Tagg

#21. Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

Rebecca Stead

#22. When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.

Mike Colter

#23. I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

Paula Modersohn-Becker

#24. I stayed in Baghdad every summer until I was 14. My dad's sister is still there, but many of my relatives have managed to get out. People forget that there are still people there who are not radicalized in any particular direction, trying to live normal lives in a very difficult situation.

Andy Serkis

#25. When I'm filming something, I quite forget that it's all still got to come together and be edited. I'm so engrossed in trying to do the best I can on a day to day basis that I forget that people will see it and judge it.

Yasmin Paige

#26. I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life.

Mariane Pearl

#27. Smitty gave his best pout. "Why are y'all trying to hurt me?"
"Because it's fun?"
"It's easy."
"I love it when you cry."
Smitty sighed. "Forget I asked.

Shelly Laurenston

#28. I wanted to stay hooked because it was the first time I've been part of the tradition where forgetting was just fine. You do it, you try, you forget, you fail.

Laurie Anderson

#29. So just be normal," he says, "at least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened." I don't want to pretend. I don't want to be friends. I don't want to forget. I am trying to remember.

E. Lockhart

#30. It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

Tera Van Beilen

#31. I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror.

Chang-rae Lee

#32. I want to kiss you," Nikolai said. "But I won't. Not until you're thinking of me instead of trying to forget him.

Leigh Bardugo

#33. You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#34. I will never forget what you did to me. I will never forgive it. I will never stop mourning what you stole from me. But I realize now I can't steal it back and I'm done spending every day trying to.

Katja Millay

#35. You see, I may be trying to forget, but I still remember quite a lot.

Stephen King

#36. I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.

William Faulkner

#37. As a mother I think you often get so caught up in trying to take care of everyone else that you forget to take care of yourself. But I'm a much better wife and mother when I take the time to take care of myself.

Mia Hamm

#38. Loving you is what I've learned so easily but trying to forget you is the last thing I could hardly learn.

Zayn Malik

#39. Don't play coy.
You know what I mean. I get ready to say something
to you and you just kiss me! Like you're trying to
make me forget what I was about to say to you! -Avery Callimer

Nikki Lynn Barrett

#40. I have learned in life that the best thing you can do to create a great future for yourself is don't forget what's in front of you. And so I'm trying to do a great job at HUD.

Julian Castro

#41. I try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.

Chuck Palahniuk

#42. I used to get down on myself a lot if I missed a shot, and it would just break my focus. But now I stay mentally tough and try to just forget about that play and keep on going.

Antonio McDyess

#43. I try to make the audience forget all their problems
for an hour and a half or so get them out of themselves, and space, and time, and consciousness.

Rick James

#44. I'd never forgotten him, despite spending half my life trying to forget him. I'd given him everything: my love, my body, my pride, & parts of my heart & mind that I could never get back.

Beth Harbison

#45. Usually, when I act, I try to forget the words and let them come, and just find my way through them.

David Duchovny

#46. That night,I lay on my side,staring out the window into the invisible world outside.I kept trying to fall asleep,but then my eyes would dart open,just to check.I couldn't help but hope that Margo Roth Spiegelman would return to my window and drag my tired ass through one more night I'd never forget.

John Green

#47. I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

A.A. Milne

#48. I put you through hell and then I only made it worse, all the mistakes I made trying to get you back.'
'I've forgiven you.'
'Forgive, yes. Understand, yes. Forget, no.

Kelley Armstrong

#49. I do not want to say I'm a product designer. I've been trying all my life to not be categorized, to learn something and then to forget about it.

Milton Glaser

#50. I don't forget you. Really.
I was just trying too hard to get you out off my mind.

Nina Ardianti

#51. For a long time now I have trusted my dreaming self as wiser than that waking self whose head is cluttered with reason and practicalities, so busy trying to control things that he sometimes forgets that the heart has reasons that reason does not know. When I dream, I never forget to trust myself.

Sheldon B. Kopp

#52. When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

John Constable

#53. I try to forget what happiness was, and when that don't work, I study the stars.

Derek Walcott

#54. I can't forget things that way. There's only one thing for it, and that's to admit everything and accept everything, and find some way of living that doesn't mean always sitting on top of a chest of grudges, trying to keep the lid from opening.

Ellis Peters

#55. I don't like this idea
It is too much focus
on something I am trying to forget
I am afraid
that this attention to detail
will only fuel my anxiety

Samantha Schutz

#56. Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up.

Doug Liman

#57. I spend all my time trying to keep thoughts away and ignore them ... But here you are, trying to remember your own life, writing your thoughts down so that you don't forget. I suddenly realized what it would be like not to know, not to remember.

Michael Scott

#58. I've kept my sanity in this business by trying out for a role and then going home and trying to forget about it.

Blythe Danner

#59. This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.

Raquel Cepeda

#60. I will not insult you by trying to tell you that one day you will forget. I know as well as you that you will not. But, at least, in time you will not remember as fiercely as you do now - and I pray that that time may be soon.

Terence Rattigan

#61. I don't live in the past at all; I'm always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

Brian Eno

#62. Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

Jessica Walter

#63. When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget ... So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.

Katherine Paterson

#64. We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.

Anna Carey

#65. Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

Stephen Graham Jones

#66. Here is the first point I am trying to make in this chapter: It is natural for people to forget to be grateful; so, if we go around expecting gratitude, we are headed straight for a lot of heartaches.

Dale Carnegie

#67. I just worked really, really hard to stay in people's faces, so it would be hard to forget about me. I'm just trying to stay popular and do the same thing over and over.

Wiz Khalifa

#68. At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Jonathan Davis

#69. No matter how much you try to pretend and force yourself and maybe fight against love and try to forget or be oblivious to it, there's no way to fight it. I think when it's there, it's there.

Olga Kurylenko

#70. One forgets that one is one. I must try to remember this.

Mark Z. Danielewski

#71. I think I'm always subconsciously trying to write the ideal school play. Lots of parts for everybody, great parts for women - don't forget, more girls try out than boys in the school play; everyone gets to be in the school play.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#72. My legacy is in my family, not in my work. For me. I don't know about for other people. I try to forget a lot.

Meshell Ndegeocello

#73. What happens when we get back? I don't know. I guess we try and forget. I don't want to forget.

Suzanne Collins

#74. They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

Velma Wallis

#75. What do you think?" he asks.
"I hate them," I say. I can almost smell the blood, the dirt, the unnatural breath of the mutt. "All I do is go around trying to forget the arena and you've brought it back to life. How do you remember these things so exactly?"
"I see them every night," he says.

Suzanne Collins

#76. I don't want to forget I'm trying to remember.

E. Lockhart