Top 100 Quotes About Forgetting
#1. Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life.
Abigail Thomas
#2. What's truly important
and what I find myself forgetting and having to relearn
is that right here, right now, I am free. Free to be myself and to express myself.
Kat Von D.
#3. The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Alyson Noel
#4. Wine is an escape from grief,
a slip into sleep,
a cool forgetting of the hot pains of day.
What better cure for being human?
Euripides
#5. Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Ba Jin
#6. Everyone is saying, "How is it with Ethan Hawke and Selena Gomez?" and I say, "You're forgetting the third star." And they're like, "The car?" It's totally a star.
Courtney Solomon
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Memory is curated. All this paraphernalia you collect to ward off forgetting
Lauren Beukes
#10. She's my mate; that makes her mine. Forgetting that will see your neck no longer serving its purpose." "I love it when you talk dirty," she purred. "Give my regards to Lindsay.
Sylvia Day
#11. Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.
Eric Gamalinda
#12. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.
Christopher Hitchens
#14. It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
Alain De Botton
#15. Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter
#16. 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
#17. I keep forgetting that rules are only for little nice people.
Bill Watterson
#18. I am doing it FOR GETTING HER OR FORGETTING HER, i don't know.
Lovely Goyal
#19. When love comes easy, forgiving is hard and forgetting even harder.
Shampa Sharma
#20. Forgiveness is a spiritual exercise that has to do with many things, but forgetting is not among them.
Colin Tipping
#21. I push him from my mind. This is no act of easy omission on my part; I do not consign him casually to a forgotten past. It is rather an act of will
a kind of self-performed surgery on my soul ... the bloodiest of mutilations.
Jim Fergus
#22. You know, said Sergeant Benton, I'll never understand the Doctor. He's always so sorry in the end for the horrible creatures we come across. It isn't human. You're forgetting, said the Brigadier, he isn't.
Malcolm Hulke
#23. To fall in love is easy,
but forgetting is required to be crazy.
Debasish Mridha
#24. You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.
James Van Der Beek
#25. 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
#26. There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.
John McCarthy
#27. Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves
Dathan Auerbach
#28. Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.
W. H. Auden
#29. I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.
Richard Paul Evans
#30. Holding on to some part of your past even if it means also holding on to the pain of never again having it. That pain is less horrible than the pain of forgetting.
Sara Raasch
#31. Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.
Adam Silvera
#32. The human story is one of continual branching movement, out of Africa to every corner of the globe. When people talk of blood and soil, as if their ancestors sprung fully formed from the earth of a particular place, it involves a kind of forgetting.
(Hari Kunzru)
Carolina De Robertis
#33. I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#34. All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?
Tablo
#35. Forgetting ... is a beautiful thing. When you forget, you remake yourself ... For a caterpillar to become a butterfly, it must forget it was a caterpillar at all. Then it will be as if the caterpillar never was & there was only ever a butterfly.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#36. I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.
Eva Longoria
#37. We kept forgetting. And we also couldn't let go.
Nova Ren Suma
#38. It is such a heady rush to be the object of someone's attention in a good way, not as a freak, that I keep forgetting to hide.
Jodi Picoult
#39. We live in such fear of puncturing the moment, of forgetting our lines.
Kate Zambreno
#40. A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely
R.J. Ellory
#41. Was she not forgetting again how strongly she influenced people?
Virginia Woolf
#43. Along the journey we commonly forget its goal. Almost every vocation is chosen and entered upon as a means to a purpose but is ultimately continued as a final purpose in itself. Forgetting our objectives is the most frequent stupidity in which we indulge ourselves.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.
Bob Rae
#45. 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
#46. When something is universal enough in our everyday lives, we take it for granted to the point of forgetting it exists.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.
Joe Lieberman
#50. The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk
#51. Letting go isn't about forgetting; it's about learning and moving on. It's making a choice to be strengthened by your past ... not strangled by it.
Steve Maraboli
#52. Momentarily forgetting how wind works, Lex tried spitting at him. This failed
Gina Damico
#53. No fear of forgetting the good-humoured faces that meet us in our walks each day.
Mary Russell Mitford
#54. Forgetting who you are is so much more complicated than simply forgetting your name. It's also forgetting your dreams. Your aspirations. What makes you happy. What you pray you'll never have to live without. It's meeting yourself for the first time, and not being sure of your first impression.
Jessica Brody
#55. My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.
Mercedes McCambridge
#56. I thought I was pretty damn clever. She said that was all right, she'd make three wishes. The first was that I wouldn't piss this money away being an idiot and forgetting I had
Nora Roberts
#57. Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.
And nothing can be nice.
Beth Revis
#58. But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;
J. Jack Halberstam
#59. Even in forgetting there is an aspect of recollection, a faded few moments of wispy consciousness clung like webs in high-vaulted chambers, moving ever so lightly with the draft.
Jeffrey Panzer
#60. Christian growth is forgetting about yourself.
Gerhard
#61. The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#62. I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
Juliette Binoche
#64. Julian wanted to laugh too. He wished he could. He wished he could forget the darkness that flickered at the edge of his vision. He wished he could close his eyes and fall, forgetting for one moment that there was no net stretched out below to catch him.
Cassandra Clare
#65. There was no more meaningless phrase in all of language than "Cheer up!" The only way to get someone to cheer up was to help them forget, and saying "cheer up" had quite the opposite effect, only reminding the person why he or she was depressed in the first place.
Koji Suzuki
#66. So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled.
Carl Jung
#67. Memory. Such a strange phenomenon. What does a person remember, and what does he choose to forget? Perhaps he's not choosing, but forgetting. And what does he remember, and for what reason?
Rama Marinov Cohen
#68. Jessica became my first enemy. Like most enemies in my life, I hoped to punish her with passive-aggressive glances and silent-but passionate!-resentment. She retaliated by forgetting I existed. Ah, the moral victory.
Anna Kendrick
#69. Forgetting about you was the worst part." At first, Thomas thought it was another message in his head; he squeezed his fists against his ears.
James Dashner
#70. ISIS BEHEADS CIVILIANS WHILE WORLD KEEPS FORGETTING WHAT VICTIMS' SOULS R BEGGING:
HUMANITY SAVE KOBANE
Widad Akreyi
#71. Don't be tricked by the verisimilitude into forgetting this is fiction!
Sha Li
#72. Dickens writes that an event, began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
Charles Dickens
#73. I worry, that we are a people in a process of great transition and we are forgetting what we are connected to. We are losing our frame of reference.
Terry Tempest Williams
#74. A life is bookended by forgetting, as though memory forms the tunnel that leads into and out of a human body.
Sarah Hepola
#75. The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
Theodor Reik
#76. Maybe the price of forgetting that even in America, even in New York City, when a man back home is talking, you better listen closely.
Brian Koppelman
#77. We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.
Chris Lowe
#78. Love is short, forgetting is long, and understanding longer still.
Merle Shain
#79. although his physician had advised him not to be overly concerned about forgetting facts and names, and he should begin to worry only if he stopped noticing that he couldn't remember them - if, in essence, he forgot that he was forgetting.
John Connolly
#80. It's easy to forgive someone for the hurt they've caused you. Forgetting is impossible.
Tara Sivec
#81. Sometimes the bridges you burn light the way out of your darkness, but the memory of the blaze will be burned into your heart and mind forever.
Shannon L. Alder
#82. Eventually all of that pain and anger just sort of fades away, and all we're left with is growing old and forgetting.
David Joy
#83. Forget the names because names lie but remember me because when you look at me I remember myself.
Remember me because I will never forget you.
Jordan Weisman
#84. Forgetting the extermination is part of the extermination itself.
Jean Baudrillard
#85. War is a big word; it's cruel, it's hard, nobody wants that. Protecting yourself sounds much better. Putting up walls, shutting everyone out. And forgetting that those who you are so afraid of - they're not all that different from you.
C.M. Rayne
#86. I like pulling on a baggy bee suit, forgetting myself and getting as close to the bees' lives as they will let me, remembering in the process that there is more to life than the merely human.
Sue Hubbell
#87. True wealth is contentment, and happiness is forgetting to worry how you are and how much you have.
Robert Thurman
#88. And I thought - not for the first time - that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.
Jodi Picoult
#89. The life of membership with all its cumbers is traded away for the life of employment that makes itself free by forgetting you clean as a whistle when you are not of any more use.
Wendell Berry
#90. I'd have never thought that remembering would bring with it far more trouble than forgetting.
Lorraine Heath
#91. An old body when it is loved becomes a sacred treasure; and sex itself must always, it seems to me, come to us as a sacrament and be so used or it is meaningless. The flesh is suffused by the spirit, and it is forgetting this in the act of love-making that creates cynicism and despair.
May Sarton
#92. When we as a nation, strive in vain to preserve the beauty of our national life, forgetting our biblical roots, we are doomed.
Richard Halverson
#93. Forgetting, along with hypocrisy, were, to him, the necessary arts central to living.
Hanif Kureishi
#94. Maybe you're forgetting who saved your life," Ringer said.
"Oh, kiss my ass.
Rick Yancey
#95. When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.
I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.
Laura J. Burns
#97. The risk is that you furnish the project with new suggestions to try and freshen it up; it's not always beneficial. You risk betraying the original intention with the story, forgetting what it is you really want to portray.
Lars Von Trier
#99. One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
John Piper
#100. Jenks made a move to follow, probably forgetting he didn't have wings anymore. He leaned forward and fell to the floor, face first. "Jenks!" I shouted when he hit with a dull smack and started swearing.
Kim Harrison
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