Quotes about forgetting

„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 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

„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)

„Maybe it's not too late to learn how to love and forget how to hate.“

—  Ozzy Osbourne English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter 1948

Source: Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

„To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own.“

—  Abraham Lincoln 16th President of the United States 1809 - 1865

Quoted in a Edith A. Sawyer (1899), Mary Cameron
Misattributed

„It isn't a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past.“

—  Aldous Huxley, book Island

Source: Island

„The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too“

—  Ernest Hemingway, book Men Without Women

Disputed
Source: Claimed to be from Men Without Women, but it does not appear in that work. May have originated in a 2011 blogpost by Marc Chernoff entitled 30 things to stop doing to yourself http://www.marcandangel.com/2011/12/11/30-things-to-stop-doing-to-yourself/.

„If my wife said, I’m not going to be a communist, I’d say, well, forget it, by God, I’ll forget you too.“

—  Jim Jones founder and the leader of the Peoples Temple 1931 - 1978

" http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/AboutJonestown/Tapes/Tapes/TapeTranscripts/Q265.html" FBI No. Q265 (17 October 1978)

„While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail.“

—  Manal al-Sharif Saudi Arabian activist 1979

About lifting of the ban on women driving in Saudi Arabia. As quoted in Saudi women 'still enslaved', says activist as driving ban ends http://news.trust.org/item/20180622172634-f882k/ (22 June 2018) by Heba Kanso, Thomson Reuters Foundation.

„I do think democracy has produced chaos, especially visual. A lot of people don't like it and yearn for nineteenth-century images, forgetting that the politics of those images were different than the democracy we love.“

—  Frank Gehry Canadian-American (b.1929) 1929

Barbara Isenberg (2012) Conversations with Frank Gehry. p. 268.

„There are 2 rules in life:
Number 1- Never quit
Number2- Never forget rule number 1.“

—  Duke Ellington American jazz musician, composer and band leader 1899 - 1974

„I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.“

—  Fernando Pessoa, book The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

„Don't get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.“

—  Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946

„Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us“

—  Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973

„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)

„Promise me you'll never forget me because if I thought you would, I'd never leave.“

—  A.A. Milne British author 1882 - 1956

„Don't forget love;
it will bring all the madness you need
to unfurl yourself across the universe.“

—  Meera Bai Hindu mystic poet

Mīrābāī, in ” Love Poems from God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the East and West”, p. 251

„Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.“

—  Keith Richards British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones 1943