Top 100 Quotes About To Forget
#1. To forget is ordinary. Even people in mourning, distracted by some little happiness, forget the dead.
Siri Hustvedt
#2. One night of hot sex should have been easy enough to forget, but she couldn't get the images of their intertwined, naked bodies or his intoxicating scent out of her head.
Katie Reus
#3. That the reason life is so strange is that we have simply no idea what is around the next corner, and it was an obvious idea but one most of us had learned to forget.
Colum McCann
#4. I was starting to learn how to forget the things that made me sad. It was like a charm you followed step-by-step, collecting and blending the ingredients, placing everything in its proper place. It was the magic of forgetting.
Francesca Lia Block
#5. To forget is to render the pages of history as entirely blank, and the lessons of history as never taught.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#6. If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe
#7. [Vanity] is an unrecognised form of stupidity, you have to forget the cosmic meaninglessness of all our acts to be able to be vain and that's a glaring form of stupidity.
Pascal Mercier
#9. If only we had the ability to live life as though it were so new or so close to the end that all we could do is give and show and become love. It seems that beginnings and endings teach us about this kind of love. It is in between that we tend to forget.
Michael Spehn
#10. Things don't go away just because you choose to forget them.
Teju Cole
#11. Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.
Mike Piazza
#12. 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
#13. Trying to forget someone you love is like trying to remember someone you never met ... <3
Owl City
#14. In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#15. The message of reconciliation, of nation-building, of granting amnesty, indemnity, has struck a powerful, favorable chord. And people can understand that we're here not for purposes of retribution but to forget the past and to build our country.
Nelson Mandela
#16. It always amazed her how easily she could forget what she had actually eaten, and yet was never able to forget for a second she was overweight.
Pat Dennis
#17. Wouldn't it be good to forget everything even if it's just for tonight? Indulge in pleasure ... breathe a sweet poison deep into your lungs ...
SebastiAn
#18. Losing is only temporary and not encompassing. You must simply study it, learn from it, and try hard not to lose the same way again. Then you must have the self-control to forget about it.
John Wooden
#19. Civilisation is very fragile. All it takes is a few decades of chaos for us to forget humanity and turn into animals.
Amish Tripathi
#20. You can't learn anything new, until you are open enough to forget everything you think you know
James Victore
#21. The sheer splendor of the sight made my chest tighten and tears sting my eyes. All the darkness lately made it easy to forget the world contained more than people trying to hurt other people. It had beauty, too, if you knew where to look
and remembered to open your eyes.
Jeaniene Frost
#22. You have to forget about people when you can't have them anymore. That's the only way to be okay.
John Corey Whaley
#23. Talent is so loaded a word, so full to the brim with meanings, that an artist might be wise to forget about it altogether and just keep on working.
Eric Maisel
#24. I want to bear witness: my daughter died from Chernobyl. And they want us to forget about it. Nikolai Fomich Kalugin, father
Svetlana Alexievich
#25. I'm trying to forget just as much as you probably are. Look, I'm not stupid. I know that we can never be the same. But I still wouldn't change anything. It was the plan and it worked. You're not dead and that's worth it to me. Maybe you'll forgive me someday.
James Dashner
#26. It is good for everyone to know how to forget.
Ernest Renan
#27. We must beat the Gospel into peoples' heads incessantly because it's the one thing we're prone to forget.
Martin Luther
#28. We have no right ever to forget that psychological warfare
is a struggle for winning people's minds.
Mikhail Gorbachev
#29. People laugh to forget their troubles, and to forget their troubles they like to look at people who aren't doing better than they are.
Drew Carey
#30. Everything about the way he makes me feel is absolutely terrifying. The way my heart wants to be held by him is terrifying. The way my knees seem to forget how to hold me up is terrifying. The way my mouth wants to be claimed by his is terrifying.
Colleen Hoover
#31. How late it is to begin really to live just when life must end! How stupid to forget our mortality, and put off sensible plans to our fiftieth and sixtieth years, aiming to begin life from a point at which few have arrived!
Seneca.
#32. ... the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget they had once upon a time been juicy with sap and alive in the sun.
Andre Gide
#33. The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.
Robert Falcon Scott
#34. When suffering from TBI and PTSD, it's difficult to find the motivation to seek help. I want society not to forget those that served this country.
Max Martini
#35. The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.
Aristotle.
#36. It's incredibly frustrating to forget. It must be an entirely other thing to be the forgotten
Cecelia Ahern
#37. A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
Charles Caleb Colton
#39. You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like to forget them.
Rob Thurman
#40. O shooting star
that fell into my eyes and through my body-:
not to forget you. To endure.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#41. So just be normal," he says, "at least for today. Let's pretend I'm not a mess, let's pretend you're not angry. Let's act like we're friends and forget what happened." I don't want to pretend. I don't want to be friends. I don't want to forget. I am trying to remember.
E. Lockhart
#42. I think one of the things that people tend to forget is that poets do write out of life. It isn't some set piece that then gets put up on the shelf, but that the impetus, the real instigation for poetry is everything that's happening around us.
Rita Dove
#43. Our lives begin to end when we begin to forget to love.
Debasish Mridha
#45. As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.
Frederick Lenz
#47. It took me an hour to know you, and only a day to fall in love, but it will take me a lifetime to forget you.
Stevie J. Cole
#48. You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet ... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.
Patsy Cline
#49. Elaborate apparatus plays an important part in the science of to-day, but I sometimes wonder if we are not inclined to forget that the most important instrument in research must always be the mind of man.
William Ian Beardmore Beveridge
#50. There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?
David Levithan
#51. You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
Carl Sandburg
#52. When scheduling a new habit, it helps to tie it to an existing habit, such as "after breakfast," or to an external cue, such as "when my alarm rings," because without such a trigger, it's easy to forget to do the new action.
Gretchen Rubin
#53. As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
Artur Davis
#54. He was vaguely aware that he drank to forget. What made it rather pointless was that he couldn't remember what it was he was forgetting anymore. In the end he just drank to forget about drinking.
Terry Pratchett
#55. For those who believe in resurrection, death is inconsequential. It's not an ending but rather a new beginning. A second chance, a reunion. The very idea of resurrection is so seductive a concept it's easy to forget, before you can rise from the dead you have to spend a few days in hell.
Emily Thorne
#56. Hate yearned to destroy and sought to forget, but love could not. Love strove creatively towards days that had yet to come.
Richard Wright
#57. When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.
Shakira
#58. Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar.
Andrei Tarkovsky
#59. I will not allow myself to be so absorbed in the whirlwind of work as to forget about God. I will spend all my free moments at the feet of the Master hidden in the Blessed Sacrament. He has been tutoring me from my most tender years.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#61. One of the easiest ways to be irresponsible about power is to forget you have it.
Rollo May
#62. Kids are really tougher than adults, but we tend to forget this in an affluent society that lets kids indulge themselves.
Cynthia Voigt
#63. Sometimes you have to forget your principles and do what's right.
Dave Van Ronk
#64. 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
#65. We both know that killing someone doesn't make you admirable. I'm not about to forget this. I just hope you have enough soul left that what you've done still bothers you." The recording ended, and Bull smiled at the blank screen wearily. "Every time," he told the hand terminal. "And next time too.
James S.A. Corey
#67. Yeah. Rose." Jill sighed and stared vacantly ahead. "She's all he sees when he closes his eyes. Flashing dark eyes and a body full of fire and energy. No matter how much he tries to forget her, no matter how much he drinks ... she's always there. He can't escape her.
Richelle Mead
#68. It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone ... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Kahlil Gibran
#69. Once Addie let someone in, she was impossible to forget. There was something about her that crawled inside a person and built a nice comfy home there, her goodness expanding until it filled every limb.
Kasie West
#71. So long as you can forget your body you are happy,' said Lady Bennerley. 'And the moment you begin to be aware of your body, you are wretched. So, if civilization is any good, it has to help us to forget our bodies, and then time passes happily without our knowing it.
D.H. Lawrence
#72. It's easy to forget how central the French people are in everything we mean when we say Europe.
John Dos Passos
#73. It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
#74. I was very, very nervous about the naked scenes. I'm very shy and reserved. But it was Bertolucci and I have seen Last Tango. It's not pornographic. He's a master of eroticism. I stopped being self-conscious. You have to forget everything.
Eva Green
#75. You see, I may be trying to forget, but I still remember quite a lot.
Stephen King
#76. I want people to get inspired by public space - their space. People tend to forget about it because they do the daily thing, but putting up these sculptures breaks the routine.
Florentijn Hofman
#77. People tend to forget that celebrities are human beings. We live our lives. We try to do what we love, which is music. And to share it with everyone in our job usually is to entertain and to make people forget their troubles.
Gloria Estefan
#78. And if anybody asks me is it easy to forget
I'll say it is easily done,
you just pick anyone,
and pretend that you never have met
Bob Dylan
#79. ...it was easy to forget that Washington was just another glum city of government, like Albany or Sacramento, legislators and lobbyists and bureaucrats and their clerks working and reworking the sodden language of government in order to distribute the spoils.
Ward Just
#81. You can do one thing or you can do another, kill a man or take a tire off his car, because sooner or later you're going to forget what it was you done and just be punished for it.
Flannery O'Connor
#82. I think that with the proliferation of writing programs, people tend to forget that you also have to get used to working alone, and you have to be your own support.
Mary Gaitskill
#83. You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#84. He gulped in a lungful of air and dove straight down in an effort to forget Isla and how she had complicated his life. He dove lower than he'd ever gone before. The water crackled in his ears and the pressure pushed against him, but still he continued.
Donna Grant
#85. How easy it is to destroy the past and how difficult to forget it.
Jeanette Winterson
#86. I just don't want to forget this first day of the rest of my life!
Dave Pelzer
#87. You know how it is: as soon as you decide to forget something, your brain comes to the conclusion that it's the most fascinating thing in the world.
Jane Yolen
#88. It is ridiculous ever to forget that you and your business are each implanted in the society of the moment. We cannot ignore the world of our time. We had better understand it.
J. Irwin Miller
#89. I want to live with all of my memories, even if they're sad memories. I believe that if I stay strong, someday I'll overcome the pain, and then I'll be glad that I have those memories. I believe that there are no memories that are okay to forget.
Natsuki Takaya
#90. My family was too precious to forget, and too rare to replace.
Ji-li Jiang
#91. The only way to live is to forget that you're going to die. Death is unimportant. The fear of it should never influence a single action of the wise man.
W. Somerset Maugham
#92. All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
Sarah Dessen
#93. How long would it take for her sadness to ease? How long must she wait to forget a man who would've been her ideal, were he not who he was? The answer: too long. But wait she must.
Miranda Davis
#94. Of course. I don't want you to go through that alone. If something hurt you enough to make you want to forget it, I want to help you get through it. let's chase these dreams away, Pax.
Courtney Cole
#95. Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.
Kate Chopin
#96. It's common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of relatively good health.
Mark Mittelberg
#97. Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be forgotten.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#98. My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.
Suzanne Collins
#99. To be the best you have to forget partying and concentrate all your energies on the football.
Michael Owen
#100. Love alone allows man to forget himself ... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.
Karl Rahner
