Top 100 The Forgetting Quotes
#1. Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.
Albert J. Nock
#2. Sometimes forgiveness is a tough thing to muster up. And forgetting? Well, you have to find the forgiveness first. Hopefully the forgetting will come...with time.
Mike West
#3. When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.
Sara Zarr
#4. Unlike earlier black-power movements that tried to fight or segregate for self-preservation, Black Lives Matter aligns with the dead, continues the mourning, and refuses the forgetting in front of all of us.
Claudia Rankine
#5. I'm too proud to admit that I was forgotten, even to the guy who did the forgetting.
Jillian Lauren
#6. The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.
Susan Jacoby
#7. It normally takes decades to build a brand ... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place
Al Ries
#8. When you put so much effort to forget someone, the effort itself becomes a memory. Then you have to forget the forgetting, and that too is memorable.
Steve Toltz
#9. The forgetting and having to remember again was the very worst part.
Ann Brashares
#10. you are snakeskin
and i keep shedding you somehow
my mind is forgetting
every exquisite detail
of your face
the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and the saddest thing
to have happened
Rupi Kaur
#11. A good poem brims with reflected beauty and even a bracing, beautiful ugliness. At the center of our lives, in the midst of the busyness and the forgetting, is a story that makes sense when everything extraneous has been taken away.
David Whyte
#12. We live between two dense clouds; the forgetting of what was and the uncertainty of what will be.
Anatole France
#13. 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
#14. And agreement only comes a little later, with the forgetting.
Samuel Beckett
#15. Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
Michael Ignatieff
#16. the letting go has
become the forgetting
which is the most
pleasant and saddest thing
to have happened
Rupi Kaur
#17. It wasn't the forgetting Caleb didn't like, it was the remembering
C.J. Roberts
#18. I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.
Ann Brashares
#19. This novel has it all
mystery, psychological insight, emotional truth, and
most important
characters whose lives matter. You'll fall in love with these families. Solti writes with such passion it is inescapable, lyrical, and profoundly moving. The Forgetting Tree goes on my top ten list.
Jonis Agee
#20. One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
Floyd Skloot
#21. The ecstasy is so short but the forgetting is so long.
Walt Whitman
#22. What I couldn't see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go.
Christina Baker Kline
#23. But who can find the truth in Canaan? Janis doesn't tell it, the Learning Room doesn't teach it. My father has twisted it, Mother half forgotten it, and the Forgetting is the thief that steals it.
Sharon Cameron
#24. The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.
Doreen Virtue
#25. 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
#26. Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves
Dathan Auerbach
#27. All the promises we made in the beginning, did we forget because we were busy? Or are we already too busy forgetting?
Tablo
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.
And nothing can be nice.
Beth Revis
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. And I thought - not for the first time - that forgiving and forgetting aren't mutually exclusive.
Jodi Picoult
#37. 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
#38. 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
#40. Dying is not the real tragedy, Shelley."
"It's not?"
"Forgetting is.
Samantha Sotto
#41. I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.
Lance Olsen
#42. Still, he should be forgiven what we all want: forgetting within the fuck. Love is a nervous habit. Haven't many said so? Snacking. Smoking. Talking. Joking. Alike as light bulbs. Drinking. Drugging. Frigging. Fucking.
William H Gass
#43. People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World
Paulo Coelho
#44. forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Kim Cash Tate
#45. If I still had the space, charcoal, and available walls,
I could compose a great work about forgetting:
a general theory of oblivion.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#46. In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie back and allow ourselves to float along calmly over the deep waters, with our eyes closed.
Patrick Modiano
#47. When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#48. For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.
Michael Pollan
#49. Honesty was a thing that could never be a thing. In a blaze of hubris and misplaced enthusiasm, we kowtowed to it, thinking it would make us better people, but conveniently forgetting that an abstraction was incompatible with the specificity of a human's needs and wants.
Erin Bomboy
#50. Love It, is to increase by forgetting. It's escape through a single being to mediocrity of all other. It's one more for trying to be less. It's become like everyone else in the belief that we become as a person. It is giving appointment to happiness in the palace of chance.
Abel Bonnard
#51. I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.
Charlie Huston
#52. Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
Shannon L. Alder
#53. Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy.
Max Anders
#54. The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.
Daniel J. Levitin
#55. You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.
Ali Rezavand Zayeri
#56. One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze
#57. If, forgetting the respect due to the Creator, I were to attempt a criticism of creation, I would say 'Less matter, more form!
Bruno Schulz
#58. We have to free the Muslim mind from the obsession with limits and rules and forgetting the path and objective. This is truly a liberating process, and for me this is Islam: liberation from the ego, and in this case liberating ourselves from the wrong understanding of the religion.
Tariq Ramadan
#59. Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it.
Oscar Wilde
#60. And I will forget her, yes. That which came together will fall apart slowly, but she will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and nothing but herself and her mom in those last moments as she spent as a person.
John Green
#61. I was the lucky one because I was protected by my youth. Je pouvais oublier. I still had the luxury of forgetting. He did not.
Khaled Hosseini
#62. The art of reading consists in remembering the essentials and forgetting non essentials.
Adolf Hitler
#63. Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
Haruki Murakami
#64. Remembering and forgetting are part of the same mental process. To write down one detail of an event is to not write down another (unless you keep writing forever).
Jonathan Safran Foer
#65. The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.
Roberto Bolano
#66. Forget your past,
Use your pain;
Accept that pain,
And Achieve the gain.
Nitesh Nishad
#68. Slowly but without question - and Presidents' Day is only one example - Americans are forgetting and ignoring the men and events that have made this nation great.
Lyn Nofziger
#69. Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
Norman Vincent Peale
#70. You can't patch up someone forgetting about you. For the rest of your life you'll always be worrying that they'll forget about you the same way they did before. You'll always know that they'd be a hundred percent fine without you but you wouldn't be a hundred percent fine without them.
Cath Crowley
#71. There is nothing down here,' said the pale thing indistinctly. 'Nothing but dust and damp and forgetting.
Neil Gaiman
#72. What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.
George Santayana
#73. This is what I know about my parents. They spent the next several years trying to forget each other, and me.
Raquel Cepeda
#74. We will paste upon the curled pages words
Like charming and romantic and sentimental
Forgetting that charming is witchcraft
Romantic is love
And sentiment is what makes us human
Emilie Autumn
#75. He was going to have permanent scars in his palms in the shape of his finger nails if he wasn't careful. His hand was forgetting how to form any shape but a frustrated fist.
Kim Dare
#76. It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.
Joshua Foer
#77. I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.
Michael Ondaatje
#78. People are either dwelling too much on the past or worrying too much on the future by totally forgetting the present.
Tim I. Gurung
#79. You're forgetting about God.
He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#80. We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.
Felix Frankfurter
#81. They know they're supposed to do something, but they're not sure what. And you know what they do when they're not sure
of course you do: They either do the wrong thing or they do nothing, and it's a toss up as to which is worse.
Jill Conner Browne
#82. I've had mostly book parties, where I get very focused on inviting everyone and not forgetting anyone, although of course one always does, and being worried no one will show up, but mostly the book comes from going to parties and feeling very, for lack of a better word, anxious.
Bruce Eric Kaplan
#83. The student ends up lusting after time with the teacher, hanging on her every word, and forgetting that this is about him or her, the student, not the teacher.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer
#84. Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
William Gibson
#85. She will forgive my forgetting, just as I forgive her for forgetting me and the Colonel and everyone but herself and her mom in those last moments she spent as a person.
John Green
#86. When you find yourself talking about less and less and forgetting the love that you bring, never forget there are things you can replace but others you can not.
Bill Walton
#87. Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
Christopher Cokinos
#88. The more she tried to forget, the more she remembered.
T.K. Kiser
#89. My worst habit is probably that I'm extremely messy. I'm a big scatter-brain - I'm always losing my car keys, or worse, forgetting where I parked my car in the car park.
Georgia Salpa
#90. I used to think that forgetting was the path to healing, the path to forgiveness. But I was wrong.
Kim Askew
#91. I'm fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#92. Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way on the backs of other people. Getting whatever I want, forgetting that there are other beings and species and energies involved.
Elizabeth Lesser
#93. The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What would happen if our foreign policy centered on the cultivation of joy rather than pain? she thought.
Alice Walker
#94. Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl' ... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.
Sophie Tucker
#95. In 1981, when I went down to visit Georgia Tech, I watched Michael Jordan play and literally get ridiculed for taking a jump shot in the championship game that went off the backboard, and they won. People are forgetting that Michael was just one of the players when they went to the Dream Team.
John Salley
#96. Opiates are, by their very nature, about forgetting. When you're in that narcotic haze, memory functions like some mutant projector, a hell-tuned Bell & Howard. As the film goes in one end, at the other end it's immediately eaten by some kind of acid, dissolving the second the events transpire.
Jerry Stahl
#97. I don't know if there's enough vision. Industry wide, the apathy regarding this recent problem is already setting in - shiny things are happening elsewhere, people are forgetting.
Theo De Raadt
#98. She's sure, absolutely sure, that what she's waiting for will happen, just the way she wants it to; and I'm so uncertain, so fearful my dreams will end up forgotten somewhere, someday, like a piece of string and a paperclip lying in a dish.
Lois Lowry
#99. How much more than necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping fox catches no poultry, and that there will be sleeping enough in the grave, as Poor Richard says.
Benjamin Franklin
#100. come with me?' the doctor asked. 'I'd like to stay,' Troy said. He felt a bizarre calmness. All the pain had been ripped away. This was more forceful than forgetting. He remembered everything. His soul had been cut free.
Hugh Howey
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