Top 100 To Be Forgotten Quotes
#1. I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.
Al Capone
#2. Lovers cannot imagine any opposition, no matter how small, to the beloved. They cannot endure to see the beloved veiled by something that causes Him to be forgotten. Moreover, lovers regard as futile any speech not about the beloved, and any act not related to Him as ingratitude and disloyalty.
Fethullah Gulen
#3. There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
Joseph Conrad
#4. Stretch out your tongue and let the words drip on the world like savage shooting muses, never, never to be forgotten, if once fallen on earth, they stand in glittery defloration.
Laura Gentile
#6. 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
#7. That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.
Joseph Roth
#8. Ghosts are those memories that are too strong to be forgotten for good, echoing across the years and refusing to be obliterated by time.
Caitlin R. Kiernan
#9. Independent filmmaking has always been there and it's not to be forgotten.
Mike Leigh
#10. I will write: for myself, for those who come after, and for the voices that cry out not to be forgotten.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#11. Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.
Andrei Makine
#12. God's Fatherly prerogative, is a kingly attribute so sweetly veiled in love, that the King's crown is forgotten in the King's face, and His sceptre becomes, not a rod of iron, but a silver sceptre of mercy - the sceptre indeed seems to be forgotten in the tender hand of Him who wields it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#13. To be forgotten is not something horrible; not to be remembered ever again is something horrible!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.
Julian Jaynes
#15. Let me tell you, if you have never seen an agitated squirrel you have seen very little, nor have you heard much, because the sound of an angry squirrel is not to be forgotten.
Joe R. Lansdale
#16. Try to be forgotten. Go live in the country. Stay in mourning for two years, then remarry, but choose somebody decent.
Alexander Pushkin
#17. It is a valuable thing for an intelligencer to be forgotten.
Gail Carriger
#18. Harper was suddenly overwhelmed with the need to make an impression. She didn't want to be forgotten, even if it was for all the wrong reasons.
Elizabeth Craft
#19. Be bold in life. Seize the moment. There is no surrender, no retreat. There is only conquer or be conquered, victory or defeat. Anything less is to be forgotten to history.
Jeffrey Fry
#20. How terrible to be forgotten by the god that made you, even if you're just a room. How could you love something that could do that anytime?
Peter S. Beagle
#21. It's better to be talked about than to be forgotten. (In other words, if you are the subject of gossip or speculation, enjoy it! Don't let someone else's negative energy control you!).
Robin Meade
#23. Every business is there to make money, and making a record is business. This tends to be forgotten by many.
Giorgio Moroder
#24. building. She could almost see Jesse standing there as he had that first day, white hat like a halo. How sure she'd been that he was a passing fancy, soon to be forgotten.
Angelina Vance
#25. To be absolutely alone for the first time in the cockpit of a plane hundreds of feet above the ground is an experience never to be forgotten.
Charles Lindbergh
#26. Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
Joyce Rachelle
#27. spectacle of Dorothy Thompson at Madison Square Garden - tall, fair, blue-eyed, and laughing in her evening gown at twenty-two thousand "little men" - was not a thing to be forgotten.
Peter Kurth
#28. The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an hour's reflection to an hour's reading, and so dispirit the book into the student.
Robert Aris Willmott
#29. May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
Mary Carolyn Davies
#30. Someone who leaves something behind to define himself is doomed to be forgotten. Someone who leaves behind something to define humanity is worthy of being remembered.
Anthony Labson
#31. Anybody who is stupid enough to want to be remembered deserves to be forgotten right now.
Gore Vidal
#32. It is always about themselves that the living ask, not about those who are to come. One man is concerned with leaving behind him an illustrious reputation, another wants his shame to be forgotten; all would like to follow the thread of their own actions' consequences; but
Italo Calvino
#33. I'm folding my emotions like a piece of paper - a tiny square, into a tiny square, into a tiny square. When they're folded up enough I can leave them in a corner of my mind somewhere, to be forgotten.
Tarryn Fisher
#34. To be early is to be on time, to be on time is to be late, to be late is to be forgotten.
Elin Hilderbrand
#35. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#36. The best way to be resurrected is to be forgotten.
Loren Eiseley
#37. Those who believe that where great personages are concerned new favors cause old injuries to be forgotten deceive themselves.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#38. Find what you excel in and go past your limits, make yourself known! Because, to be forgotten is far worse than any death
Michael Rogers
#39. Forgotten [10w]
There's no greater slur of memory than to be forgotten.
Beryl Dov
#40. Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man.
H. Rider Haggard
#41. To be forgotten is to sleep in peace with the undisturbed myriads, no longer subject to the chills and heats, the blasts, the sleet, the dust, which assail in endless succession that shadow of a man which we call his reputation.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#42. You know, men do nearly all die laughing, because they know death is very terrible, and a thing to be forgotten till after it has come. T. E. LAWRENCE, IN A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, 1916
Scott Anderson
#43. Evil people you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actress-never to be forgotten.
Bette Davis
#44. From famous artists to building contractors, we all want to leave our signature. Our lasting effect. Your life after death. We all want to explain ourselves. Nobody wants to be forgotten.
Chuck Palahniuk
#45. It is only me, the body in the shower, one person enclosed in plastic watching a drop of water skate down the wet curtain. The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It is a moment never to be thought of except when it is in the process of unfolding.
Don DeLillo
#46. That is what true love is. True love is saying to someone "Forget about us. We will be okay," when it might not even be true, when the last thing you want is to be forgotten.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#47. The thing one reads and likes, and then forgets, is of no account. The thing that stays, and haunts one, and refuses to be forgotten, that is the sincere thing.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
#48. The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
Victor Hugo
#49. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.
Jim Thompson
#50. Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
George R R Martin
#51. If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!
Ana Claudia Antunes
#52. It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.
Charlotte M. Vaile
#53. Eventually, all that one has learnt will have to be forgotten.
Ramana Maharshi
#54. The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.
Oliver North
#55. The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing.
Mahatma Gandhi
#57. Victor wanted to have the strength to watch, to witness the brutality and be strong enough to tell the world about it. He wanted to witness it and by witnessing make it real, unable to be forgotten; he wanted this horror seared into every pale pink fiber of his skull.
Sunil Yapa
#58. Every heart knows its own sorrow and the greatest casualty of war is to be forgotten,
Miguel Reece
#59. The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
Lev Grossman
#61. Gratitude is the praise we offer God: for teachers kind, benefactors never to be forgotten, for all who have advantaged me, by writings, sermons, converse, prayers, examples, for all these and all others which I know, which I know not, open, hidden, remembered, and forgotten.
Lancelot Andrewes
#62. When they coughed, they coughed like people accustomed to be forgotten on doorsteps and in draughty passages, waiting for answers to letters in faded ink ...
Charles Dickens
#64. Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling
Pat McQuaid
#65. To be forgotten by the one to whom you never forget is the worst thing ever happens.
Na
#66. I did not want to be forgotten. More than that, I wanted, desperately - I fell to my knees and began to tear out the weeds, the vines, by their very roots - to be remembered.
Melanie Benjamin
#67. The freshness of an unworn garment in her hands couldn't extinguish the feeling that she was a damaged, hole-ridden item, thrown to the back of a closet to be forgotten.
Jessica Shook
#68. The moment is there to be forgotten. This seems the ultimate point. It's a moment never to be thought of except when it's in the process of unfolding. Maybe this is why it doesn't seem peculiar. It is only me. I don't think about it. I simply live within it and then leave it behind.
Don DeLillo
#69. The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction.
Bruce Lee
#71. Some things are not supposed to be forgotten; these are the things which make us human.
Nenia Campbell
#72. To be forgotten for your good deeds is better than to remembered for your bad ones.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#73. heart - life had grace notes. These were moments so sweet that they could be tucked like the smallest of keepsakes, never to be forgotten. She
Susan Wiggs
#74. But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.
Christopher Pike
#75. The trace left behind is substituted for the practice. It exhibits the (voracious) property that the geographical system has of being able to transform action into legibility, but in doing so it causes a way of being in the world to be forgotten.
Michel De Certeau
#76. We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.
Timothy Keller
#77. Many scorned women delude themselves that the past was negative and to be forgotten, whereas the present is positive and to be celebrated. But what they also forget is, at one time they celebrated that past, as the positive present.
Robert Black
#78. My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.
Evita Peron
#79. Who cares for your fashions and your wars and your causes? I will shortly be gone and I have seen many fashions come and go and many causes so passionately defended only to be forgotten.
Paulette Jiles
#80. The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.
Milan Kundera
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered.
Theda Bara
#87. As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.
John Hurt
#88. To forget would mean the things we never knew
had never waited to be known, never waited
to be forgotten, had never been; waiting
beneath the long dead stars
in time. . .
John Daniel Thieme
#89. We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.
Henry David Thoreau
#90. I would prefer to be forgotten, then rediscovered in a different age.
Bill Viola
#91. I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself.
Albert Camus
#92. The principal office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
Tacitus
#93. The thought of making work that's easily consumed and quickly forgotten - what's the point? I want my work to be cohesive, to age and improve like old leather.
Tift Merritt
#94. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett
#95. I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
Kate Bush
#96. Memory and regret can mingle, how much sorrow can be held within, and how nothing seems to have any shape or meaning until it is well past and lost and, even then, how much, under the weight of pure determination, can be forgotten and left aside only to return in the night as piercing pain.
Colm Toibin
#97. Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives.
David Levithan
#98. To die for a cause is easy, to live, to be steady day after day doing the small things, taking care of the details, knowing you will be forgotten by history and still choosing to do so, that is real courage
Anonymous
#99. You're probably right,' I said, but to be honest, I had forgotten to be a Communist that night.
Per Petterson
#100. Hollywood and Disneyland are the legacy of Europe's cultural imperialism. We gave them nursery rhymes and they gave back film. Televised riots are as American as Barbie/ Big Macs. Tomorrow the riots will be forgotten but Mickey mouse will still be there. Welcome to Disneyland.
Richey Edwards
