Forgetting Quotes

643 quotes by 531 authors

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,… — Michael Pollan
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you… — Milan Kundera
At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept… — Jodi Picoult
When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin. — Sara Zarr
When someone dies, you don't get over it by forgetting; you get over it by remembering, and you are aware that no person is ever… — Leslie Marmon Silko
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… — Michael Ondaatje
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more… — Jane Austen
you come home, and everyone talks at once and everyone asks questions, but no one waits for the answers.Instead they talk about themselves, what they've… — Ellen Hopkins
Perspective - Use It or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality.… — Richard Bach
Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us to act without… — Italo Calvino
I know when dark-haired evening put on her bright silk at sunset, and, folding the sea sidled under the sheet with her starry laugh, that… — Derek Walcott
The receptivity of the masses is very limited, their intelligence is small, but their power of forgetting is enormous. In consequence of these facts, all… — Adolf Hitler
You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various… — Epictetus
Forget the suffering You caused others. Forget the suffering Others caused you. The waters run and run, Springs sparkle and are done, You walk the… — Czeslaw Milosz
Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting. — James M. Barrie
Humanity i love you because you are perpetually putting the secret of life in your pants and forgetting it's there and sitting down on it… — E E Cummings
Whateverâ€™s there to feel, feel it â€“ the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own… — Thomas Lynch
Yet the summer which was to change everything was coming nearer every day. When boys and girls are growing up, life can't stand still, not… — Willa Cather
The mark of Cain is stamped upon our foreheads. Across the centuries, our brother Abel was lain in blood which we drew, and shed tears… — Pope John XXIII

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