Forgotten Quotes

1912 Forgotten quotes by 1350 unique authors

We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has… — Clifton Fadiman
Everyone will be forgotten, nothing we do will make any difference, and all good endeavours, even the best, will come to naught. Unless there is… — Timothy Keller
Any city may have one period of magnificence, like Boston or New Orleans or San Francisco, but it takes a real one to keep renewing… — A J Liebling
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased… — Emile M. Cioran
Life is surely given us for higher purposes than to gather what our ancestors have wisely thrown away, and to learn what is of no… — Samuel Johnson
No man is much regarded by the rest of the world. He that considers how little he dwells upon the condition of others, will learn… — Samuel Johnson
Michael Robartes remembers forgotten beauty and, when his arms wrap her round, he presses in his arms the loveliness which has long faded from the… — James Joyce
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
In the days of my youth I remembered my God! And He hath not forgotten my age. — Robert Southey
The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten… — Grover Cleveland
Language is a living thing. We can feel it changing. Parts of it become old: they drop off and are forgotten. New pieces bud out,… — Gilbert Highet
An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he lives. — Jean Kerr
The only people who think children are carefree are the ones who've forgotten their own childhood. — Orson Scott Card
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature. — Ellen Glasgow
The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy… — Karl Lagerfeld
What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books… — Francois Mauriac
The contradictory remarks of politicians are forgotten; the more asinine predictions of pundits are buried with mercy. — Norman Mailer
By putting business before every other manifestation of life, our mechanical and financial civilization has forgotten the chief business of life: namely, growth, reproduction, development.… — Lewis Mumford
Memory is corrupted and ruined by a crowd of memories. If I am going to have a true memory, there are a thousand things that… — Thomas Merton
It took me some years to clear my head of what Paris wanted me to admire about it, and to notice what I preferred instead.… — Julian Barnes
While waiting for a Moses to lead us into the promised land, we have forgotten how to walk. — Wendell Johnson
I've never forgotten what it's like to be in your early twenties, which is not a particularly easy time. You've left your family, you've left… — Julia Leigh
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… — Tom Harpur
When really you've gone to drama school and rep and then you've come to London and gone to auditions and you've worked, solidly, for years.… — Julia Ormond

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