Top 100 Quotes About Forgotten
#1. You'll always be beautiful to me, no matter how old you are, and you can remind me of that when you're ninety, because if I'm still around I know I'll still feel the same.'
-Forgotten, Susan Lewis
Susan Lewis
#2. Unfortunately, now that Langston has a boyfriend again, he has forgotten all about me.
Rachel Cohn
#3. You have forgotten the doctrine of your own church, is it not so? The cross ... the bread and wine ... the confessional ... only symbols. Without faith, the cross is only wood, the bread baked wheat, the wine sour grapes.
Stephen King
#5. Those who die without being forgotten get longevity.
Laozi
#6. He is dead, she thought bitterly, because we have forgotten him.
Orson Scott Card
#7. I wish for frozen time, forgotten sins, and never-ending love.
E.K. Blair
#8. All of the universes are but phantoms, mirages, and while they have their own essence, their own pantomime - they pass forgotten.
Frederick Lenz
#9. It's always about timing. If it's too soon, no one understands. If it's too late, everyone's forgotten.
Anna Wintour
#10. My students tag tables, walls, and chairs because their greatest fear is that no one will ever remember them. They do not believe they can give impassioned speeches, rally people in protest, paint masterpieces. They think they will die, small and forgotten, and it dictates their every action.
Thomm Quackenbush
#11. Cupid had struck his heart to the core but had forgotten to put even a mere scratch on his beloved's.
Jettie Necole
#12. She looked up and ran her eyes over me,
slowly, while I stood and wondered why. Had she forgotten what I looked like? But she finished with a big smile. She really did like me, the idiot.
Jeff Lindsay
#14. If you are filled with guilt and shame, it's because your heart remembers God but your head seems to have forgotten Him.
Kate McGahan
#15. I think the average American has forgotten the great feel for liberty and accountability that the framers of the Constitution believed.
Joe Jamail
#16. To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.
Theda Bara
#17. But time past is a time forgotten.
We expect the rise of a new constellation.
T. S. Eliot
#18. The powerlessness of the child is often forgotten. And after it comes the terrifying phase of moving into adulthood.
Kate Thompson
#19. In the depth of the anxiety of having to die is the anxiety of being eternally forgotten.
Paul Tillich
#21. Have you forgotten," she said in a furious whisper, "that he nearly killed us? That he threw my quiver in the stream, and threatened to snap my bow?"
It was unclear which she considered worse: threatening them or her bow.
Michelle Paver
#22. I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.
Frances Perkins
#23. No one cares about you. No one cares. You will die and be forgotten.
Frederick Lenz
#24. Sweet as hell. Unexpected. Reassuring. It was as if he wanted me to know, in his own particular Noah way, that he hadn't forgotten about me.
Sarah Darlington
#25. men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises. This
Mark Twain
#26. If there is nothing but this;" Roiben said. "If we are to be shadows, changeless and forgotten, we will have to dine on these memories for the rest of our days. Don't you want a few more moments to chew over?
Holly Black
#27. They are all cheap copies and every one of them is forgotten.
James W. Bodden
#28. We do not realize that as soon as our thoughts cease and all attempts at forming ideas are forgotten the Buddha reveals himself before us.
D.T. Suzuki
#29. If you don't make yourself irreplaceable, somebody will replace you. Being different is being remembered. Being the same is being forgotten.
Holly Smale
#30. She had forgotten how to care about the city that had taken so much from her. Forgetting was the only way she had found to keep moving every day.
Claire Legrand
#31. It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.
Al Sharpton
#32. I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
Robert Browning
#33. I had a question in which I lived for a long time,' she said. 'Many years. And one day I remembered I had forgotten it. It had gone, and from that I knew that I had received an Answer.
Leena Krohn
#34. All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.
Leo Tolstoy
#35. And finally, my gratitude to UM 006, H, Mr. Blank, Ben, the big guy in the sweatpants, and the owners of the forty heads. You are dead, but you're not forgotten.
Mary Roach
#36. In all the hurly-burly, I'd forgotten, but now I remember: The most important thing of all is that everyone's alive at the end of the day.
Theresa Brown
#37. First of all, I wish you love, and that by loving you may also be loved.
But if it's not like that, be brief in forgetting
And after you've forgotten, don't keep anything.
Victor Hugo
#38. We are everything and we are nothing. We are a forgotten moment. We don't even exist, which is the freeing part. We just think we do. That's the illusion.
Frederick Lenz
#39. Palin seems to have forgotten that her poll ratings have plummeted since the summer of 2011.
Ron Fournier
#40. The velocity and volume on the Web are so great that nothing is forgotten and nothing is remembered,
Leon Wieseltier
#41. The great truth that is too often forgotten is that it is in the nature of people to do good to one another.
Marilynne Robinson
#43. Whether men soar to outer space or dive to the bottom of the deepest ocean they will find themselves as they are, unchanged, because they will not have forgotten themselves nor remembered to exercise the charity of forgiveness.
Meher Baba
#45. Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
Compay Segundo
#46. We read fiction to satisfy a more basic need - to imagine our way into other lives, to explore characters and situations that tell us something new about the world, and maybe about ourselves, or to remind us of something important that we may have forgotten.
Tom Perrotta
#47. A sadness came over me. Returning to Kabul was like running into an old, forgotten friend and seeing that life hadn't been good to him, that he'd become homeless and destitute.
Khaled Hosseini
#48. Lessons not learned in blood are soon forgotten.
Gerard Butler
#49. It does not matter if we are forgotten; what matters is the effect we have on those around us and those who come after us. What matters is how our own lives affect the larger, perpetual community of the living.
Lynn Schooler
#50. They made me think of long-forgotten conflicts and compromises between the imagination and the will, reason and feeling, power and sensuality; together with many more specifically personal sensations, experienced in the past, of pleasure and of pain.
Anthony Powell
#51. I firmly believe that 90 percent of the confusion that women feel when they are attempting to put together an occasion-specific ensemble is caused by fear: fear of breaking the 'fashion rules,' fear of violating some long-forgotten tradition, or the basic fear of looking bad.
Nina Garcia
#52. Some loves have to be given up, others have to be forgotten. Strange as it may sound, if you think of me as a monster, but I can love most passionately. I do not think of myself as evil.
Christopher Pike
#53. Writing, which used to be my delight, has become an almost forgotten art with me.
Harry Haskell
#54. I still had sting my eyes, prickling at Maven's memory. It's hard to forget him as he was. No. As he pretended to be. The kind, forgotten boy. The shadow of the flame.
Victoria Aveyard
#55. All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.
Raymond Chandler
#56. Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.
Malidoma Patrice Some
#58. So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.
Philip Larkin
#59. I have not forgotten that she is what I am moving toward. If I seem to be caught in a slow circling of the subject, it is only appropriate, as she and I have always moved toward each other in slow circles.
Patrick Rothfuss
#60. This was yet another good thing about drinking, of course: not that drinking made you forget things, but that it made it possible for you to plausibly pretend you'd forgotten things.
Brock Clarke
#61. [T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things ... until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
#62. Your greatest moment in life soon joins a series of other moments and is often forgotten. As you rise, so shall you eventually fall.
Twinkle Khanna
#63. A too often forgotten truth is that you can live through actual events of history and completely miss the underlying reality of what's going. What history misses, the myth clearly expresses. The myth in the hands of a genius give us a clear picture of the inner import of life itself.
Tom Harpur
#64. People get strange about whether you've written your own songs, which seems really stupid considering that, especially in Country Music, it's about oral tradition and passing things on and the songs weren't meant to be played by one person and then forgotten.
Neko Case
#65. We have almost forgotten how strange a thing it is that something so huge & powerful & intelligent an animal as a horse should allow another, & far more feeble animal, to ride upon its back.
Peter Gray
#66. Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite.
Ronald Reagan
#67. Few have abilities so much needed by the rest of the world as to be caressed on their own terms; and he that will not condescend to recommend himself by external embellishments must submit to the fate of just sentiment meanly expressed, and be ridiculed and forgotten before he is understood.
Samuel Johnson
#68. The reputation of a great work ethic that took years to build can be forgotten with one act of misjudgment.
Mark W. Boyer
#69. I spent the morning as the ceiling in the warlocks' tent. Found out that the hobbies of Those Best Forgotten include long walks on the beach and sacrificing nymphs on altars. I mean, who'd want to hurt a nymph? That's like kicking a rainbow in the nuts.
Kresley Cole
#70. Jesus made everything so simple and we have made it so complicated. He spoke to the people in short sentences and everyday words, illustrating His messages with never-to-be forgotten stories.
Billy Graham
#71. I don't want to be remembered. As long as my kids remember me, I'd rather be forgotten by everybody else.
Mike Tyson
#72. The human backside is a dimension architects seem to have forgotten.
William H. Whyte
#73. Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.
Geoffrey Wood
#74. Years from now, when all the junk they got is broken and long forgotten, you'll still have your stars.
Jeannette Walls
#75. They have forgotten much of what they once knew. They have even lost the secret of their origin. But I will give it to you, and this will give you a powerful advantage over them. Do you know the legend of the Hydra?
Christopher Pike
#76. Oh, the hard, cruel thoughts which men have toward one another when they are angry! They kill and slay a thousand times over. These hasty sins are soon forgotten by us, but they are not forgotten by God.
Charles Spurgeon
#77. A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.
John Bevere
#78. she looked like something chiseled from a memory of a lost and long forgotten god.
Asghar Abbas
#79. The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
William Faulkner
#80. I was ready to leave with every load, with every worthy individual of respectable appearance hiring a cab; but absolutely nobody invited me, not one; it was as if they had forgotten me, as if I was actually something alien to them!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#81. Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried.
Fernando Sabino
#82. And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe? ... I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think. (p. 31)
Sabina Berman
#83. I wept for relationships not possible due to denial and dreams locked in the back of people's minds, all of the bits of life that lay dormant until the babblings of televisions and nursing homes sweep them away. It makes me wonder how many of the dreams we had originally have already been forgotten.
Christopher Hawke
#84. Great truths can only be forgotten and can never be falsified.
G.K. Chesterton
#85. We can learn so much from nature by simply observing how it works through a flower. The flower knows it is part of nature' we have forgotten that.
Thomas Sterner
#86. It's as if we live in a house which has a vast treasury in one of its rooms. Only we've forgotten about it. So, instead of living a life of royalty, we go about in poverty.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#87. Now each one of us, black or white, is a symbol. The war is out in the open and the skin color is a uniform. All the deep and basic similarities of the human condition are forgotten so that we can exaggerate the few differences that exist.
John D. MacDonald
#88. The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of words is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped, the words are forgotten. Where can I find a man who has forgotten the words, so that I can talk to him?
Zhuangzi
#89. He had forgotten the most important thing about living in the wilderness, the one thing he'd thought he would never forget-expect the unexpected. What you didn't think would get you, would get you. Plan on the worst and be happy when it didn't come.
Gary Paulsen
#90. I had forgotten that, and so many things. How could I put everything down on paper? It seemed impossible. No matter what, the majority of life would be left out of this story, this sliver of a version of the life I'd known. But I tried anyway.
Dave Eggers
#91. Honor is not a thing to dismiss or forgotten but a thing to uphold at all time".
Abdulazeez Henry Musa
#92. There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
Arthur Machen
#93. So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten.
Mallory Ortberg
#94. I emerged from the black oil pools in the forgotten house of dreams in the wild backcountry of the heart. I am heir to the sun, child of Mother Earth and the Mayan galaxy. All the mountain cures and healing waters and winds and junipers run deep in my bloodstream.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
#95. I have forgotten everything - he has made me forget everything - except for his scent, his sounds, his taste, his touch.
K. Bromberg
#96. You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.
Idries Shah
#97. They had forgotten their own names, the voices of their mothers, the faces of their fathers.
Joe Hill
#98. I refuse to believe the people of Texas and all Americans in the world have forgotten us.
P.J. Parker
#99. Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#100. 1. The lecture notes that mission statements can be mundane, uninspiring, routine, and forgotten. They can also be nonexistent. Do you have a mission statement, an articulation of your purpose in life? If not, craft one now. If so, ask honestly, as Mintzberg suggests we do, whether it inspires you.
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