Top 34 Quickly Forgotten Quotes
#1. The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.
Tift Merritt
#4. Hardships are quickly forgotten. Intense heat, bitter cold, rain and snow, fatigue,and luckless hunting fade quickly into memories of great fellowship, thoughts of beautiful country, pleasant camps, and happy campfires.
Fred Bear
#5. We remember the truth because it has a name, is rooted in the past, but a makeshift lie is quickly forgotten.
Marcel Proust
#6. It's a dreadful assertion to make that once the war is over, the lesson learned, the conclusion drawn lies anywhere but in the verdict 'slaughter'. The dead are very quickly forgotten. But it's extraordinary - and a good thing too - how we're bested by them in this respect.
Jacques Yonnet
#7. The practice of inhibiting impulses, which is to a great extent necessary to civilized life, makes mistakes easier, by preventing experience of the actions to which a desire would otherwise lead, and by often causing the inhibited impulses themselves to be unnoticed or quickly forgotten.
Bertrand Russell
#8. So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories.
John Williams
#9. Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten.
Dick Gregory
#10. Most mistakes which seem huge in the heat of the moment are quickly forgotten.
Bryant McGill
#11. Will it matter In 100 years who was right and who was wrong in our political arguments in our great nation? What will matter will be the legacy that our diligent footsteps leave for all who come behind us to comple the work in preserving America ... which will always better humanity in the process!
Timothy Pina
#13. Danny quickly changed the topic and all talk of Heather and Graham was well and truly forgotten with marriage banished from the minds of most, but not all of the party.
B.R. Maycock
#14. What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.
Joshua Foer
#15. You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table ... Otherwise, you can just disappear.
Rita Ora
#16. Yes, I would become upset when you forgot to take out the garbage, but that is not a real argument. That is nothing. It passes like a leaf blown by the window. It is over and done and it is forgotten quickly.
Nicholas Sparks
#17. People are always asking me if I work out, but to be honest, I'm doing very little at the moment. The only time I really go to the gym is if I'm staying in a hotel.
Ashley Jensen
#18. Poetry, when you saw me coming in your direction with a pen and my problems, why didn't you run and hide like the rest?
Delano Johnson
#19. And you don't understand how devastating fear and rage can be, and how quickly religion and civilization and human decency are forgotten when a mob forms.
Orson Scott Card
#20. When you're on TV, you're looking at a half-page of material, trying to memorize it really quickly. By the time it's on TV, I've already forgotten what I said, but I can still recite my whole role from Shakespeare in the Park. It works a different set of muscles.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#21. What the hell is this?' I ask turning around, holding up a box of Vagisil in my fingers.
He looks incredibly uncomfortable. 'It's ... well, you know,' he winces, 'for your ... girly parts.
J.A. Redmerski
#22. That men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not yield its juice. In any case, remember that in a very little while both you and he will be dead, and your very names will quickly be forgotten.
Marcus Aurelius
#23. Luke would always remember the day of his drowning
Alison Cooklin
#24. The sun dropped beneath the horizon and then detonated, torching the racks of clouds stacked up above the downtown skyline. Wyatt had forgotten how quickly, in the vast empty sky of the southern plains, the ordinary could turn so flamboyant.
Lou Berney
#25. A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all.
Wolfgang Borchert
#26. And any small moments of intense, flaring beauty such as this morning's will be utterly forgotten, dissolved by time like a super-8 film left out in the rain, without sound, and quickly replaced by thousands of silently growing trees.
Douglas Coupland
#27. Mrs. Spencer distrusted letters on principle, because they always seemed to want to entangle her in so many small, disagreeable obligations--visits, or news of old friends she had conveniently forgotten, or family responsibilities that always had to be met quickly and without enjoyment.
Shirley Jackson
#28. How did you get so grown up that you understand things that confuse your ancient mother?
John Green
#29. She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.
Judy Blume
#30. No matter how successful the remake is, it seems to me it's forgotten quickly after and it's the original that still lives on.
Rob Zombie
#31. That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.
Joseph Roth
#32. Let's spend less on trying to fix the unfixable in the last five years of life and spend more supporting people so that they can stay the least disabled as they possibly can, the most independent as they possibly can, and keep them at home.
Katy Butler
#33. Speaking commits me Listening teaches me Silence tempers me Birth
Edouard Leve
#34. he quickly became like so many people in New York; that is, comfortable, forgotten, and alone. Though
Mark Helprin
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