Quotes about forgetting

„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

„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

„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 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’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

„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

„How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray’r accepted, and each wish resign’d“

—  Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard

Source: Eloisa to Abelard

„When you have money in hand, only you forget who are you. But when you do not have any money in your hand, the whole world forget who you are. It's life.“

—  Bill Gates American business magnate and philanthropist 1955

„Do not feel ashamed to forgive and forget.“

—  Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha

Nahj al-Balagha, Letter 53: An order to Malik Al-Ashtar
Variant: The best deed of a great man is to forgive and forget.

„I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success … Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.“

—  Nikola Tesla Serbian American inventor 1856 - 1943

Quoted in Marconi and Tesla: Pioneers of Radio Communication (2008) by Tim O'Shei, ISBN 159845076X , p. 5

„You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail.“

—  Charlie Parker American jazz saxophonist and composer 1920 - 1955

As quoted in Acting Is a Job: Real-life Lessons About the Acting Business (2006) by Jason Pugatch, p. 73; this statement has occurred with many different phrasings, including: "Learn the changes, then forget them."