Top 100 Quotes About Forgetting
#1. And agreement only comes a little later, with the forgetting.
Samuel Beckett
#2. This is not a game, and I am tired of people around here forgetting where they put their nuts!' Frank draws the attention of the officers gawking at the TV set; waiting for Connor to start streaming again.
Luis Samways
#3. Shame is the work of memory against forgetting. Shame is what we feel when we almost entirely - yet not entirely - forget social expectations and our obligations to others in favor of our immediate gratification.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#4. The easiest thing to do is let go, the hardest is forgetting, That's why they're called memories. Life's Lessons
B. Easley
#5. People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.
Wayne Gretzky
#6. I've caused you pain, and I'm sorry for it,' she said. 'But perhaps that pain will keep you from forgetting me.
Valerie Martin
#7. We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
#8. My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.
Robert Breault
#9. We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
Anatole France
#10. 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
#11. I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy.
Mary Shelley
#12. I hate the stress of leaving. Even though I have everything I need, I always feel like I'm forgetting something.
Eric Halvorsen
#13. Forgetting's not something you do, it happens to you. Only it didn't happen to me.
John Fowles
#14. I'll enter some faculty or other, get a degree in a sunject that doesn't interest me but that will help me earn a living. Painting will just recede to the background, and I'll end up forgetting my vocation.
Paulo Coelho
#15. Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side
E.F. Schumacher
#16. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. Journaling is the difference between learning and remembering. It's also the difference between forgetting and fulfilling our goals.
Mark Batterson
#18. American colonies were as much a dumping ground as an escape, a forgetting place.
Neil Gaiman
#20. 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
#21. Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful ...
Jose N. Harris
#22. Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
#23. Forgetting isn't the key to moving on. Remembering is, because only once we've remembered can we forget.
Emma Hart
#24. It's amazing what a haircut and forgetting to shave will do.
David Cook
#25. Some out of their own virtue make a god who sometimes later is a nuisance to them, a terror perhaps to them, a difficult thing to be forgetting.
Gertrude Stein
#26. I don't believe in luck ... It's persistence, hard work, and not forgetting your dream.
Janet Jackson
#27. I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!
Sylvia Kristel
#28. She had been trying to be honest with him, thinking her honesty would be winsome and that he would come to rescue her family, forgetting what she later learned as a writer: that to be honest is to open yourself up to people thinking you're crazy.
Susan Breen
#29. She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.
Genevieve Cogman
#30. We as a culture are forgetting that we are actually natural organisms and that we have this very, very deep connection and contact with nature. You can't divorce civilization from nature - we totally depend on it.
James Balog
#31. Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and we are lulled by this intoxication into forgetting the unseen horizons beyond.
Gustave Flaubert
#32. Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.
Fethullah Gulen
#33. The train blows, just when I was forgetting. Forgetting that I am here alone. And I wonder if those cars got held up by its passing, just as I have yours.
Kellie Elmore
#34. I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I was sure that I had discovered the key to a new way of putting together a narrative.
Milan Kundera
#35. Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.
Ted Dekker
#36. I'm sure there are many other Forrest Gump moments that I'm forgetting. I don't mention them as boasts, but rather as evidence of how ridiculously lucky I have been to have lived the life that I have.
Michael J. Fox
#37. One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#38. It's not forgetting we need, Vianne," he said, leaning down to kiss her. "It's remembering.
Kristin Hannah
#39. It doesn't work that way. Silencing memories does not make them stop existing. Events cannot be undone by forgetting them.
Robin Hobb
#40. As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends.
Mother Teresa
#41. We are much too much inclined in these days to divide people into permanent categories, forgetting that a category only exists for its special purpose and must be forgotten as soon as that purpose is served.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#42. Solving problems is better than forgetting them otherwise you will be reminded of them at a bad time.
Auliq Ice
#43. 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
#44. She was so busy forgetting, she couldn't take a single step into the future.
Alice Hoffman
#45. We gonna be a family again in Heaven. It takes some strong patience, but the Lord will come through. And as long as we here, we can get on living by never forgetting. Never forgetting and always remembering.
Andrew Galasetti
#47. She entered his life without knocking, as one might step into the wrong room because of its vague resemblance to one's own. She stayed there forgetting the way out and quietly getting used to the strange creatures she found there
Vladimir Nabokov
#48. Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.
Jim Cramer
#49. One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it.
Mark Twain
#50. All that the historians give us are little oases in the desert of time, and we linger fondly in these, forgetting the vast tracks between one and another that were trodden by the weary generations of men.
J. A. Spender
#51. Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.
Albert J. Nock
#52. Even after all this time, I keep forgetting that heroes can be found in unlikely places and persons
like mechanics who can turn into coyotes.
Patricia Briggs
#53. I have lived my life so frightened of pain it's been paralyzing. I hate pain, but I hate fear more, and I've eaten fear every day of my life because of the Forgetting.
Sharon Cameron
#54. Tell me things I won't mind forgetting, she said. 'Make it useless stuff or skip it.
Amy Hempel
#55. I always feel like I'm forgetting things.
Jon Glaser
#56. The future is foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial. All time is eternally present and so all time is ours. There is no sense in forgetting and every sense in dreaming. Thus the present is made rich.
Jeanette Winterson
#57. The dangers merged into one. Powder and smoke and the gusty flames. The damaged people. Like the rest of the men in the unit, Hans would need to perfect the act of forgetting.
Markus Zusak
#58. Hi lover," he says to me, completely forgetting what happened before.
He knows who I am. He knows that I am the one person who he loves, has always loved. No disease, no person can take that away.
(p.205)
Michael Zadoorian
#59. It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
Walter Raleigh
#60. That was the danger of nostalgia, Drizzt realized. One often remembered the good of the past while forgetting the troubles.
R.A. Salvatore
#61. Required to be constantly recumbent I write slowly and with difficulty ... Weakened in body by infirmities and in mind by age, now far gone into my 83rd year, reading one newspaper only and forgetting immediately what I read.
Thomas Jefferson
#62. How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#63. The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper
#64. It wasn't the forgetting Caleb didn't like, it was the remembering
C.J. Roberts
#65. Wisdom of the Ages: Another Bush in the White House-Yep they keep forgetting to grab the TV and silverware.
Matthew D. Heines
#66. Bertie, it is imperative that you marry."
"But, dash it all ... "
"Yes! You should be breeding children to ... "
"No, really, I say, please!" I said, blushing richly. Aunt Agatha belongs to two or three of these women's clubs, and she keeps forgetting she isn't in the smoking-room.
P.G. Wodehouse
#67. A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#68. I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
Henry Ward Beecher
#70. I tend to make my joy a private experience and hoard all the fruit for myself, forgetting that the tree doesn't eat its own fruit but presents it to others.
Hayley DiMarco
#72. There's no relationship to the narrative anymore. People want their own interpretation of history. We're compartmentalizing, forgetting what came directly before, like it's not a big deal. That, to me, is a crime.
Ariel Pink
#73. People generally complain that they're overburdened by responsibilities, forgetting that they chose to have those responsibilities. No one makes you work like a dog in order to live in a nice house, put your kids in nice schools, drive a smart car and go on exotic foreign holidays. It's up to you.
Mark Barrowcliffe
#74. There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.
Theodore Newton Vail
#76. Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
#77. Forgetting the cameras would be next to impossible. And oozing love? That sounded like an industrial accident.
Heather Hansen
#78. If we lose our memory, we lose ourselves. Forgetting is one of the symptoms of death. Without memory we cease to be human beings.
Ivan Klima
#79. Jewish Alzheimer's is forgetting everything except a grudge.
Maureen Lipman
#80. the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened
Rupi Kaur
#81. Whatever you do, with whom you do it or whether you do it alone, and when, and how, and why, to what mysterious end - it's balanced against nothing, against Death and forgetting. You balanced against oblivion.
Joyce Carol Oates
#82. I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting
of murdering the memory.
Caryl Phillips
#83. We use the metaphor of waves that rise and fall in societies, perhaps forgetting that the actual waves of the ocean are purely opportunistic, small irregularities in water that, snagging a fortunate gust, rise and break like monsters, for no greater cause than their own accidental invention.
Adam Gopnik
#84. I talk to myself. It's my worst habit. I often muse aloud, or, when people drive me crazy, I curse them aloud. I might do a ranting monologue about how pissed off I am about them, occasionally forgetting that they might still be in the room; now, that's weird!
Monique Roffey
#85. Those with a gift for action, for their part, often express contempt for those whose gifts are more reflective. Men of action like to say, 'Those who can, do, those who can't, teach,' forgetting that those who teach get to write the history books.
Michael Ignatieff
#86. 209. He who gives himself to vanity, and does not give himself to meditation, forgetting the real aim (of life) and grasping at pleasure, will in time envy him who has exerted himself in meditation.
Anonymous
#87. The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Sydney Smith
#88. She trusted him.
She had faith in him.
And he left her forever.
Something tells me she's not forgetting that anytime soon.
Lisa Schroeder
#89. This was excitement, and desire, and pleasure. Nothing mattered while you were with a man. Nothing but the man, or men in this case.
This was freedom. This was forgetting.
Marshall Thornton
#90. Even the rain in its night singing, / the night rain in its forgetting, / is a kind of light.
Jan Zwicky
#91. Moving on is not about forgetting the past; it's about learning from it. Find the message in the mess ... Cry. Forgive. Learn. That's moving on.
Steve Maraboli
#92. My mother showed me that when tin or zinc was bent it uttered a special 'cry'. 'It's due to deformation of the crystal structure,' she said, forgetting that I was five, and could not understand her - and yet her words fascinated me, made me want to know more.
Oliver Sacks
#93. He had a marvelously versatile gift for forgetting things.
Heywood Broun
#94. Forgetting her promise of no questions, Littlest suddenly asked, "Might we be human?" But Fastidious did not reply.
Lois Lowry
#95. It will finally be broadcast on the national news, to outrage, and to an instant forgetting.
Teju Cole
#96. I was gazing underwater at the brightly colored landscape that had been hidden from view, forgetting to be afraid that my equipment might fail, that against all evidence I would sink to the bottom and die a watery death, even that I was afraid at all.
Jojo Moyes
#97. Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same
Drake
#98. Sean Connery, in Vyshny Volochyok
in the rain on a drizzly solo trek,
said, "forgetting my sweater
has made me much wetter.
I certainly do miss my polo-neck."
- Arthur Shappey, Limerick, Cabin Pressure
John David Finnemore
#99. 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
#100. The difference between forgetting something and not remembering it is big enough to drive an eighteen-wheeler through.)
Laurie Halse Anderson
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