“Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten”
Source: The Forbidden Game
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L.J. Smith182
American author 1965Related quotes
“They have learned nothing, and forgotten nothing.”
Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838) French diplomat
and variations
Recognized since the 19th century as a borrowing, possibly used by Talleyrand, from a 1796 letter to Mallet du Pan by French naval officer Charles Louis Etienne, Chevalier de Panat: Personne n'est corrigé; personne n'a su ni rien oublier ni rien apprendre. "Nobody has been corrected; no one has known to forget, nor yet to learn anything."
Sources: Craufurd Tate Ramage Ll.D.Beautiful thoughts from French and Italian authors, E. Howell (1866)
Misattributed
“Nothing is lost. Nothing is forgotten.
It was in the blood, the flesh,
And now it is forever.”
Greg Bear (1951) American writer best known for science fiction
Interphase: Thought Universe (p. 247; closing lines)
Blood Music (1985)
“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.”
Shirley Jackson (1916–1965) novelist, short story writer
Simon R. Green (1955) British writer
Source: Drinking Midnight Wine
Jeremy Clarkson (1960) English broadcaster, journalist and writer
"Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it."
Rolls-Royce, p. 19
I Know You Got Soul (2004)
Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962) American poet
"Continent's End" in Tamar and Other Poems (1924)
Context: The long migrations meet across you and it is nothing to you, you have forgotten us, mother.
You were much younger when we crawled out of the womb and lay in the sun’s eye on the tideline. It was long and long ago; we have grown proud since then and you have grown bitter; life retains
Your mobile soft unquiet strength; and envies hardness, the insolent quietness of stone.
“In America nothing dies easier than tradition.”
Russell Baker (1925–2019) writer and satirst from the United States
"A Little Bones Trouble," The New York Times (1991-05-14)
“Thus all things are but altered, nothing dies.”
Omnia mutantur, nihil interit.
Book XV, 165 (as translated by John Dryden); on the transmigration of souls.
Metamorphoses (Transformations)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims