Quotes about forgetting

„Once you have met someone, you never really forget them.“

—  Hayao Miyazaki Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka 1941

„Every time someone forgets, someone else disappears,' my brother wrote.“

—  Alice Hoffman Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952

Source: Incantation

„Never forget who you are, the rest of the world will not, wear it like armor andit can never be used to hurt you. - Tyrion Lannister“

—  George Raymond Richard Martin American writer, screenwriter and television producer 1948

„I hope you liked them, Reader; that they did for you what any good story should do--make you forget the real stuff weighing on your mind for a little while and take you away to a place you've never been. It's the most amiable sort of magic I know.“

—  Stephen King American author 1947

„I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.“

—  Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

„We all have musts, needs, and wants in our lives, be they material or issue oriented; complete the musts as they are a necessity and forget the wants until the musts do not consume most of your time.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1974

„Let it go, you've got to forget about revenge. Believe me, in this work I've met a lot of guys who feel the way you do. Trust me, for those who follow the path of revenge, it never ends well. You'll only tear yourself apart and even if you succeed with your revenge, what would you have then... nothing, emptiness.“

—  Hatake Kakashi, book Naruto

To Sasuke

„Never mind, I'll find someone like you,
I wish nothing but the best for you, too.
Don't forget me, I beg.
I remember you said,
"Sometimes it lasts in love,
But sometimes it hurts instead."“

—  Adele (singer) British singer-songwriter 1988

Someone Like You, written by Adele and Dan Wilson
Song lyrics, 21 (2011)

„Quit telling us to forget the past and never look back. We learned from the past, gained wisdom from the past that we apply every day in the process of living. If we forget the past, we’ll forget who we are since that’s where we came from.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1990

„Satan fools and feigns, blows and bluffs, and we so often take his threats to heart and forget the "exceeding greatness of God's power to us.“

—  Leonard Ravenhill British writer 1907 - 1994

Source: Why Revival Tarries

„Design and programming are human activities; forget that and all is lost.“

—  Bjarne Stroustrup, book The C++ Programming Language

[Stroustrup, Bjarne, The C++ Programming Language, 693]

„Preserve your memories, keep them well, what you forget you can never retell.“

—  Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888

„Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.“

—  Laurence J. Peter Canadian eductor 1919 - 1990

p. 362

„You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope.“

—  Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, p. 85
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

„Hitler had the willpower of a demon and he needed it. If he didn't have such a strong willpower he couldn't have achieved anything. Don't forget, if Hitler had not lost the war, if he did not have to fight against the combination of big powers like England, America, and Russia — each one he could have conquered individually — these defendants and these generals would now be saying, 'Heil Hitler,' and would not be so damn critical.“

—  Hermann Göring German politician and military leader 1893 - 1946

To Leon Goldensohn (24 May 1946)
The Nuremberg Interviews (2004)

„Like the sweet apple reddening on the topmost branch,
the topmost apple on the tip of the branch,
and the pickers forgot it,
well, no, they didn't forget, they just couldn't reach it.“

—  Sappho ancient Greek lyric poet -630 - -570 BC

Stanley Lombardo translations, Frag. 69

„Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, "So what." That's one of my favorite things to say. "So what." "My mother didn't love me." So what. "My husband won't ball me." So what. "I'm a success but I'm still alone." So what. I don't know how I made it through all the years before I learned how to do that trick. It took a long time for me to learn it, but once you do, you never forget.“

—  Andy Warhol, book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

Source: 1975, Ch. 7: Time
Source: The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

„That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!“

—  Lemmy Kilmister British singer-songwriter 1945 - 2015

„I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.“

—  Groucho Marx American comedian 1890 - 1977

Quote by Leo Rosten in The Many Worlds of Leo Rosten http://books.google.com/books?id=8FkwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22i+never+forget+a+face+but+in+your+case+i'll+be+glad+to+make+an+exception%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage (1964)