Top 100 Not Remembering Quotes
#1. Which was better: being alive (if that was the right word) but not remembering anything, or being dead?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#2. There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.
Bill Pullman
#3. Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back. Every moment that we are not remembering God is lost to us.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#4. Nursery schools and bars at 2 a.m. are the only places where it is completely normal if someone just spontaneously throws up on the floor ... and just like a toddler, the bar patron wakes up the next day not remembering or caring how they behaved.
Jim Gaffigan
#5. It's the way I study - to understand something by trying to work it out or, in other words, to understand something by creating it. Not creating it one hundred percent, of course; but taking a hint as to which direction to go but not remembering the details. These you work out for yourself.
Richard P. Feynman
#6. Our past shapes our future whether we realize it or not. Remembering well is as important as doing well." -- Jonita Mullins
Jonita Mullins
#7. It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become.
But at least I knew who I was.
Keri Arthur
#8. having DID in itself creates intense shame. A person continually has to deal with not remembering what one has said or done. Thus, the person with DID must be quick with inferences and cover-ups. Unfortunately, this often convinces her, as well as others, that she is a liar.
Elizabeth Howell
#9. How was it that he could remember not remembering, and yet the fugitive facts themselves remained so elusive? How could he misplace the skills of a lifetime? Where did such knowledge go?
Geraldine Brooks
#10. Imperceptibly, more time passes when I'm not remembering our every moment together, not recreating our every conversation, re-imagining our love-making. It is immeasurably sad.
Luke Davies
#11. It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
Joshua Foer
#12. I verily believe that her not remembering and not minding in the least, made me cry again, inwardly - and that is the sharpest crying of all.
Charles Dickens
#13. Isn't it amazing how you can actually remember things? Where are they when you're not remembering them?
Art Hochberg
#14. 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
#15. There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.
Jodi Picoult
#16. More than all those people who starved by famine, it was the thought of my mother not remembering what she looked like as a little girl that saddened me.
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#17. The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.)
Laurie Halse Anderson
#19. And so you worried about not remembering what happened in between the things you wrote down. You had lived those moments too. Where had they gone?
Edouard Leve
#20. It's not that I can't remember. It's that I prefer not to remember, which means that I prefer not to remember what not remembering did to me the last time I did it.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#21. Remembering the past should help you create a purposeful future, not cause you to be afraid of it.
Bill Crawford
#22. But then comes a time when forgetting isn't possible. And I do mean a particular time when no amount of dreaming, not then and maybe not ever, can change how naked and unimportant we become in our own eyes.
Stig Dagerman
#23. Remembering what you want about the past, even if it's not entirely true, keeps you from giving up on the present.
Susan Meissner
#24. That night I lay in bed, remembering the moment when her hand touched mine. I wondered what it would be like to have her touch me not by accident, to maybe have her let me touch her.
Alex Flinn
#25. There's all that brain work involved, remembering all those lines in a script. I find I have to eat a lot of fish, late - but not too late - in the afternoon. Doing theatre, you need to be like an athlete in training.
Jerry Hall
#26. We can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.
Walter Lippmann
#27. When it comes to our children, we do not have the luxury of despair. If we rise, they will rise with us every time, no matter how many times we've fallen before. I hope you will remember that the next time you fail ... Remembering that is the most important work as parents we can possibly do.
Cheryl Strayed
#28. (Always remembering, that our strength is continental, not provincial
Thomas Paine
#29. And I'll look back at him because I shan't be able to help it, remembering about being young, and about being made love to and making love, about pain and dancing and not being afraid of death, about all music I've ever loved, and every time I've been happy.
Jean Rhys
#30. Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you ... not ever ...
Judy Blume
#31. She'd not known grief would come in waves, brought on by the smallest of things. Nor had she realized that ordinary acts of living would continue even after the loss of a love and that it would remain possible to get caught up in the moment of a simple pleasure before remembering.
Tess Thompson
#33. Remembering is not enough, if it simply hardens hate. Sometimes the hating has to stop.
Eric Lomax
#34. brought them along nevertheless, remembering the old line, it was better to have and not need, than need and not have. Gus shook his head once,
Keith C. Blackmore
#35. I always hang up my own dresses. It is a good lesson in appreciation and in always remembering that you're part of a team, not outside of the team, but with the team and on the team.
Stephanie Seymour
#36. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
Daniel Burnham
#37. m because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love [6] toward all the saints, 16I n do not cease to give thanks for you, o remembering you in my prayers,
Anonymous
#38. It's not forgetting that heals. It's remembering.
Amy Greene
#39. Being a good leader requires remembering that you're there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn't to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism - they insist on it.
Travis Bradberry
#40. He's not learning. He's not experiencing. He's remembering.
He walks to the next screen, hungry to be himself again.
James Dashner
#41. What's more, sports are not, of course, always designed strictly to minimize the number of games. Without remembering this, some aspects of sports scheduling would otherwise seem mysterious to a computer scientist.
Brian Christian
#42. Waking up is not serious. It is a gentle remembering and an honoring of the present moment as the truth of life.
Leonard Jacobson
#43. Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Sholem Asch
#44. I assumed that they had heard it enough times and that they had believed it. Jesus and the cross? That was old news. The real action was in obeying, not in remembering.
Elyse M. Fitzpatrick
#45. If we were constantly remembering that love is as love does, we would not use the word in a manner that devalues and degrades it's meaning.
Bell Hooks
#46. Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.
Ryan Allis
#47. It always starts out that way," Kanin said, and his voice was distant, as if remembering. "Noble intentions, honor among new vampires. Vows to not harm humans, to take only what is needed, to not hunt them like sheep through the night.
Julie Kagawa
#48. This surprised me because it made me realize that what I sought was not outside myself. It was within me, already there, waiting. Awakening was really the act of remembering myself, remembering this deep Feminine Source.
Sue Monk Kidd
#49. It is strong proof of men knowing things before birth, that when mere children they grasp innumerable facts with such speed as to show that they are not then taking them in for the first time, but are remembering and recalling them.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#50. What I've learned, Mia, and what my grandmother always said, is that the whole point is wishing and remembering - not if what you want happens, not if remembering hurts. Because when you wish for something, you're asking. And when you ask, you're trying. And all everyone can really do is try, right?
Melissa Senate
#51. Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.
Amit Ray
#52. That was hot," I declared and watched his body lock.
"What?"
"No. That's not right," I said . "That wasn't hot. That was smoking' hot, and I don't care if that makes me a freak. It was hot. You were hot. Now I'm hot. So hot, I may have an orgasm, standing here remembering it.
Kristen Ashley
#53. I sometimes go months without remembering you.
Some griefs bless us that way, not asking much space.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
#54. Perhaps too much value is assigned to memory, not enough to thinking. Remembering is an ethical act, has ethical value in and of itself. Memory is, achingly, the only relation we can have with the dead.
Susan Sontag
#55. Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not.
Abraham Lincoln
#56. But it is one thing to remember, another to know. Remembering is merely safeguarding something entrusted to the memory; knowing, however, means making everything your own; it means not depending upon the copy and not all the time glancing back at the master.
Seneca.
#57. I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week ... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.
Patricia Hewitt
#58. 16I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers, 17that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Anonymous
#59. Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
Larry Gelbart
#60. (Actually now I'm remembering that the goodbye chow isn't spelled that way. It's ciao or something weird like that. It's Italian, right? But I'm not an Italian gypsy, I'm a hungry gypsy. So spelling it chow makes total sense.)
Wendelin Van Draanen
#61. Do not refuse me because I am dark and shadowed,' I whispered, remembering
Deborah Harkness
#62. If the dreamlike visions were stripped of all pretense of order and meaning, then they could safely ignore them. According to the rules: "If I do not remember it, it means, it was not worth remembering." In the jargon of the dreamers these dreams are called "lemons".
Andrzej Sapkowski
#63. Were the Romans Christians?" I asked him, remembering my curiosity at the Roman farm. "Not always," Ravn said. "They had their own gods once, but they gave them up to become Christians and after that they knew nothing but defeat.
Bernard Cornwell
#64. Sometimes I had difficulty remembering that "all you can eat" is not a personal challenge.
Marika Christian
#65. On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don't do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.
Yaya Toure
#66. Remembering and forgetting are part of the same mental process. To write down one detail of an event is to not write down another (unless you keep writing forever).
Jonathan Safran Foer
#68. Forgiving is not forgetting. It is remembering and letting go.
Claudia Black
#69. When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened.
John Irving
#70. I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
Andrew Bird
#71. The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#72. The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
Jim Harrison
#73. Gotta bounce," I say, remembering that's what I heard someone say to someone sometime somewhere, at school or maybe it was on TV, or in a movie, probably not even from this decade, but who cares, all I know is I have to get away before I evaporate or crumple or cry.
Jandy Nelson
#75. Marriage is not just spiritual communion, it is also remembering to take out the trash.
Joyce Brothers
#76. Ah. Yeah, that would be better. Have you ever driven a bus?"
Caine shook his head. "No, I have not."
"Strangely enough," Sam said, remembering the long ago moment of terror and competence that had earned him the nicknames School Bus Sam, "I have.
Michael Grant
#77. History is made not simply with events, but by remembering those events, a double drumbeat like a heartbeat. History can be written not only with books but with ceremonies. Yet a real event read about in a newspaper is not always more important than a fictional one in a novel or play or poem.
Christopher Bram
#78. Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering
remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you dont want to repeat what happened.
Desmond Tutu
#79. Did you love your brother?"
"I don't remember."
"You don't remember?"
"No, Adam, I don't."
He knew I was lying. I guess I didn't care. Look, I don't want to remember should count as I don't remember. That's what I was thinking.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#80. I am not too accusatorial or defensive by nature. I have always been kind of philosophical about it, remembering that it is just a game. People take these things too seriously.
Steve Nash
#81. The whole contains nothing that is not for its advantage. By remembering that I am part of such a whole, I shall be content with everything that happens.
Marcus Aurelius
#82. The Polar Express was the easiest of my picture book manuscripts to write ... Once I realized the train was going to the North Pole, finding the story seemed less like a creative effort than an act of recollection. I felt, like the storys narrator, that I was remembering something, not making it up.
Chris Van Allsburg
#83. Bright star," Magnus said, and his eyes were thoughtful, as if he were remembering something, or someone. "Those of you who are mortal, you burn so fiercely. And you fiercer than most, Will. I will not ever forget you.
Cassandra Clare
#84. We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.
Garth Brooks
#85. So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a
sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof
John F. Kennedy
#86. Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside - remembering all the times you've felt that way.
Charles Bukowski
#87. 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
#88. The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the contrary, very ordinary ones. Charisma is easy; presence, self-remembering, is terribly difficult, and where the real work lies.
Morris Berman
#90. Maybe it's kinder not to remember, because you don't have to grieve.
Cynthia Lord
#91. I was not religious, but I liked rituals. I liked the idea of connecting an action with remembering.
John Green
#92. Whatever troubles may be before you, accept them bravely, remembering Whom you are trying to follow. Do not be afraid. Love one another, bear with one another, and let charity guide you all your life. God will reward you as only He can.
Mary MacKillop
#93. When you prepare for something, you can then play around; you're not as worried about remembering your lines because you already know them so well. That's where you can find the freedom. So I'm all about prep work.
Krysten Ritter
#94. I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Chris Marker
#95. What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?
Fritz Leiber
#96. I am not a historian. I am a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past
Eduardo Galeano
#97. And when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive
Audre Lorde
#98. We not only have today; we have all the yesterdays we are capable of remembering and all the tomorrows we can envision.
Harold S. Kushner
#99. Remember, the Law of Attraction does not care whether you are remembering, pretending, celebrating, playing, creating, complaining or worrying. It simply responds to what's in your Vibrational Bubble. So, find proof, rejoice and send out a positive vibration.
Michael J. Losier
#100. I did not fall in love with you,
I was born on the floor.
Everything else was just remembering.
Caitlyn Siehl
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