Quotes about forgetting
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“It's hard, dangerous work, aside from any hate at all, and when a fellow works hard at any line of business he wants to go home and forget about it. He don't want to be afraid to sit near a window or an open door.”

Al Capone (1899–1947) American gangster

Hate, Home, Business

“Canada declares national #ClimateEmergency. It’s great that more countries and regions are doing this. But remember:The fossil fuels must stay in the ground. Forget “climate neutral” and clever accounting. Our emissions must start their way to zero. Now.”

Greta Thunberg (2003) Swedish climate change activist

Twitter post https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1140904436094644224 (18 June 2019) 2019

Way, Country

“People sometimes forget about their national tasks; but such peoples perish, they turn into land, into fertilizer, on which other, stronger nations grow and grow stronger.”

Pyotr Stolypin (1862–1911) Russian politician

May 5, 1908; The State Duma; P. A. Stolypin's speech about Finland. Source: https://ru.citaty.net/tsitaty/484174-piotr-arkadevich-stolypin-narody-zabyvaiut-inogda-o-svoikh-natsionalnykh-zadacha/ Source: https://histrf.ru/lichnosti/biografii/p/stolypin-pietr-arkad-ievich Source: http://www.myshared.ru/slide/138476/ Source: https://politus.ru/v-rossii/937-citaty-pastolypina.html Source: https://books.google.ru/books?id=3iSeDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT216&lpg=PT216&dq=%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82+%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0+%D0%BE+%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%85+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85+%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%85;+%D0%BD%D0%BE+%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B+%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82,+%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8+%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F+%D0%B2+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BC,+%D0%B2+%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5,+%D0%BD%D0%B0+%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC+%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82+%D0%B8+%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82+%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5,+%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B5+%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5+%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B&source=bl&ots=bf14PULA74&sig=ACfU3U3rVMX-mwa8NstIIW64SFRW_P3xFA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiiv8fSmuLmAhWk1aYKHa5lCU8Q6AEwBnoECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%8B%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82%20%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%B4%D0%B0%20%D0%BE%20%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B8%D1%85%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D1%85%20%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%85%3B%20%D0%BD%D0%BE%20%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B5%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B%20%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%2C%20%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8%20%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%89%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F%20%D0%B2%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B5%D0%BC%2C%20%D0%B2%20%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5%2C%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%20%D0%BA%D0%BE%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BC%20%D0%B2%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%8E%D1%82%20%D0%B8%20%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BF%D0%BD%D1%83%D1%82%20%D0%B4%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B3%D0%B8%D0%B5%2C%20%D0%B1%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B5%20%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B5%20%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D1%8B&f=false

People

“Do not leave Japa and Sadhana even for a day. Adjust and adapt. Bear insult and injury. Learn to forget trifles. Tactfully move with people. Train everyone in Bhajan and Kirtan. Create spiritual vibrations wherever you go. Then you will find peace, joy, happiness and prosperity. There will be joy in all faces. This is the way for harmony. When you are agitated and irritated, take to Japa or leave the place for some time. Love all and serve all.”

Swami Sivananda (1887–1963) Indian philosopher

When You Are Agitated
Autobiography of Swami Sivananda

Love, Happiness, People, Making love

“My fellow Americans, I am confident we will succeed in this mission because we are on the right side of history. We were founded upon a belief in human dignity — that no matter who you are, or where you come from, or what you look like, or what religion you practice, you are equal in the eyes of God and equal in the eyes of the law. Even in this political season, even as we properly debate what steps I and future Presidents must take to keep our country safe, let’s make sure we never forget what makes us exceptional. Let’s not forget that freedom is more powerful than fear; that we have always met challenges — whether war or depression, natural disasters or terrorist attacks — by coming together around our common ideals as one nation, as one people. So long as we stay true to that tradition, I have no doubt America will prevail.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

We Will Not Be Terrorized (December 2015), Address to the Nation by the President on San Bernardino (December 2015)

God, War, People, Fear

“For us in India the fascination is even greater, and even. our self-interest compels us to understand the vast forces which have upset the old order of things and brought a new world into existence, where values have changed utterly and old standards have given place to new. We are a conservative people, not ever-fond of change, always trying to forget our present misery and degradation in vague fancies of our glorious past and immortal civilisation. But the past is dead and gone and our immortal civilisation does not help us greatly in solving the problems of today.”

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India

Soviet Russia: Some Random Sketches and Impressions (1949)

People, World, Understanding, Problem

“In India, women have never been in hostile competition with men-even in the most distant past, every time a woman emerged as a leader, perhaps as a queen, the people accepted her. As something normal and not exceptional. Let’s not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti. Not only that—the struggle for inde pendence here has been conducted in equal measure by men and by women. And when we got our independence, no one forgot that. In the Western world, on the other hand, nothing of the kind has ever happened—women have participated, yes, but revolutions have always been made by men alone.”

Indíra Gándhí (1917–1984) Indian politician and Prime Minister

Oriana Fallaci. Interview with Indira Gandhi in New Delhi, February 1972

Women, Men, Hostility, People

“This new patriarch Fox said one day to a justice of peace, before a large assembly of people. "Friend, take care what thou dost; God will soon punish thee for persecuting his saints." This magistrate, being one who besotted himself every day with bad beer and brandy, died of apoplexy two days after; just as he had signed a mittimus for imprisoning some Quakers. The sudden death of this justice was not ascribed to his intemperance; but was universally looked upon as the effect of the holy man's predictions; so that this accident made more Quakers than a thousand sermons and as many shaking fits would have done. Cromwell, finding them increase daily, was willing to bring them over to his party, and for that purpose tried bribery; however, he found them incorruptible, which made him one day declare that this was the only religion he had ever met with that could resist the charms of gold.
The Quakers suffered several persecutions under Charles II; not upon a religious account, but for refusing to pay the tithes, for "theeing" and "thouing" the magistrates, and for refusing to take the oaths enacted by the laws.
At length Robert Barclay, a native of Scotland, presented to the king, in 1675, his "Apology for the Quakers"; a work as well drawn up as the subject could possibly admit. The dedication to Charles II, instead of being filled with mean, flattering encomiums, abounds with bold truths and the wisest counsels. "Thou hast tasted," says he to the king, at the close of his "Epistle Dedicatory," "of prosperity and adversity: thou hast been driven out of the country over which thou now reignest, and from the throne on which thou sittest: thou hast groaned beneath the yoke of oppression; therefore hast thou reason to know how hateful the oppressor is both to God and man. If, after all these warnings and advertisements, thou dost not turn unto the Lord, with all thy heart; but forget Him who remembered thee in thy distress, and give thyself up to follow lust and vanity, surely great will be thy guilt, and bitter thy condemnation. Instead of listening to the flatterers about thee, hearken only to the voice that is within thee, which never flatters. I am thy faithful friend and servant, Robert Barclay."”

Voltaire (1694–1778) French writer, historian, and philosopher

The most surprising circumstance is that this letter, though written by an obscure person, was so happy in its effect as to put a stop to the persecution.
The History of the Quakers (1762)

Death, God, Hate, Bad luck

“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely — lay your life before him.”

Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker

As quoted in Bruce Lee: Artist of Life (1999) edited by John R. Little, p. 192

Life, Pain

“We forget that education is not school and school is not education.”

Christian Canlubo (2002) Filipino Internet Entrepreneur

"Learning is something we have to do every day, so if you tell me that I should finish my studies then you are saying that I am going to end my life." Christian Canlubo answered to a person who tell him that he should finished his learning to be a successful person. Source: Christian Canlubo https://en.everybodywiki.com/Christian_Canlubo| Christian Canlubo profile on EverybodyWiki

Education, School

“The knight's song and direction
I found new, but not confused;
He left our path,
but strode strongly and confidently.
When you want to evaluate, according to rules, something which doesn't follow your rules,
You have to forget your own ways,
And seek out its rules!”

Richard Wagner (1813–1883) German composer, conductor

Original: (de) Des Ritters Lied und Weise,
sie fand ich neu, doch nicht verwirrt;
verliess er unsre Gleise,
schritt er doch fest und unbeirrt.
Wollt ihr nach Regeln messen,
was nicht nach eurer Regeln Lauf,
der eignen Spur vergessen,
sucht davon erst die Regeln auf!
Source: Quotes from his operas, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Hans Sachs, Act 1, Scene 3

Way, Confidence, Self-confidence

“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.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1990

Wisdom, Learning, Past

“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.”

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1974

Time

Gandolfo – (RJ Intindola)

1974

Time

“We walk this earth
hand with hand and head by head
along with shadows of fairy tales
myths and legends spread by superstitious folks
and oddly we yearn to all of them
with sadness and despair
like drowning sailor who longs for sip of air
with playful joy against the odds
we seek to tame good auld death
forgetting that lady D is a wild cat
that carves its paths with fangs and claws step by step
step by step
until she is to close
- inside your head”

Marcin Malek (1975) Polish writer

Source: We'll go asleep, poems and ballads, "Untill she is to close", pg 64

Death, Sadness, Cats, Joy

“Never forget, political, economic and religious institutions can be destroyed and rebuilt by men. The death of our race will be eternal.”

David Lane (white nationalist) (1938–2007) American white supremacist, convicted felon

Revolution by Number

Death, Men

“For those of you who are still going through the process of identifying and daily examining your parents, you must not forget the blessings that they are still alive and living together with you.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Parent

“Sometimes we focus too much on business, forgetting about humanity.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Business

“Don’t Care (If I tell you say I don’t care)
But if you leave me (Don’t Care)
I will follow another (Don’t Care)
Don’t Care (If I tell you say I don’t care)
But if you leave me (Don’t Care)
I will follow another (Don’t Care)

Oh yeah, Baby don’t forget that time we spend together, even though the breakup don tee like one year, get her body shaking like a jelly thing Some days look like the style I wanna Figure out”

Dc Themmie

Source: Song Don't Care

Time, Baby

“If i could change one thing about the world, it'd be:
Their thinking, because nowadays their thinking has become so sick that they do not see anything other than their religion. they keep fighting and quarreling with each other in the name of religion, they all forget that there is no greater religion than humanity. I want to change their thinking so that peace and harmony prevails between them.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

World, Peace, Religion, Thinking

“When I try to forget you, your memories always makes a thousands question, when they don't get answers to questions, then your memories starts quarrels with me. I'm get lost in labyrinth of your memories because your memories make me desperate, how can I go away from you and from your memories, because your memories follow me everywhere and every moment.”

Shabdon Ka Jahan

Question, Memory

“It's okay to make mistakes but always learn from them. If things don't go as planned today don't forget that there's always tommorow and we all learn in this journey of life.”

Bisola Aiyeola (1986) Nigerian Actress

Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20190527120634/https://www.concisenews.global/2018/08/14/bisola-aiyeola-inspires-fans-with-lessons-from-mistakes/ Bisola talks on learning from every mistakes.

Life, Learning

“Because tens of millions of people have been destroyed practically, gone through absolute hell, and then suddenly they say, 'Well, it's all finished, let's forget it.' You don't forget it.”

Michael I of Romania (1921–2017) King of Romania (1927-1930, 1940-1947)

Source: About not forgetting the suffering communism had imposed on the Romanian people, in a 2009 interview with Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, https://www.rferl.org/a/romania-king-michael-ww2-era-monarch-exits-limelight/27623319.html

People, Hell

“Confusion, anger, depression, violence, and conflict arise when humans forget who they are. Yet how easy it is to remember the truth and thus return home: I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003), Ch 4

Life, Truth, Home, Sense

“I forgive you.
I don't condone or say that what you did to me was alright…
it was not.
I will never forget.
But I forgive you
for the sake of myself…so I may truly be Free.
I love Me.
Although it shall never be the same…
I can find it in my heart to
love you too.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Love, Forgiveness, Heart

“Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.”

Stephie Pahlavi Zan

Memory

“In the end, it's just everyday life and forgetting, because there's nothing fantastic about people having to die every day.”

José Baroja book Un hijo de perra y otros cuentos

Life, People

“Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
p.90”

Bill Watterson Calvin and Hobbes

There's Treasure Everywhere
Variant: Calvin: As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a test question. I now intend to forget it forever. You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system. Congratulations.
Source: Calvin and Hobbes

Question

“I play until my fingertips are raw. Until I rip a nail and bleed on the strings. Until my hands hurt so bad I forget my heart does.”

Jennifer Donnelly book Revolution

Source: Revolution

Heart, Hurt

“Forget the dead, the past? O yet there are ghosts that may take revenge for it, memories that make the heart a tomb, regrets which gild thro’ the spirit’s gloom, and with ghastly whispers tell that joy, once lost, is pain.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet

Pain, Revenge, Memory, Past

“You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”

Idries Shah book Reflections

Source: Reflections

People

“I don't do alcohol. Or other people's boyfriends. And don't you forget it.”

Meg Cabot book Airhead

Source: Airhead

People, Alcohol

“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”

Alyson Nöel (1965) writer

Source: The Immortals Boxed Set

Past, Future, Personality, Missing You

“Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.”

Holly Black book White Cat

Source: White Cat

“I don't promise to forget the mystery, but I know I'll have a marvelous time.”

Carolyn Keene book Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Source: Nancy's Mysterious Letter

Time

“Never forget you are a miracle”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

“let me forget about today until tomorrow”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“… his face bore an expression that mingled haughty disdain with a tender, ardent sympathy, as if he would love all things if only his nature could let him forget their defects.”

Philip Pullman book The Amber Spyglass

Source: The Amber Spyglass

Love, Nature

“A woman will forget that a man is male, if they are good enough friends, but men rarely forget that a woman is feminine.”

Laurell K. Hamilton book Cerulean Sins

Source: Cerulean Sins

Men

“I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

Happiness

“It is easy to forget that in the main we die only seven times more slowly than our dogs.”

Jim Harrison (1937–2016) American novelist, poet, essayist

Source: The Road Home

Dogs, Time

“We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.”

Joan Didion book Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Love, Betrayal

“you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

“I feel dead, wasted, awful, broken and useless. It's not the kind of feeling you forget.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Feeling, Dead

“In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aim- lessly. You don’t get anywhere by not ‘wasting’ time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget.”

Carlo Rovelli book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Incipit
Seven Brief Lectures on Physics (2014)
Source: Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Youth, Parent, Time

“some soap opera, you know, real people pretending to be fake people with made-up problems being watched by real people to forget their real problems.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

People, Problem

“I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.”

Stephen King book The Green Mile

Source: The Green Mile

People, Thinking

“I didn't completely forget how to be nice or feminine because I have a career.”

Mindy Kaling book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

Source: Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?

“War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Men, War

“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.”

Joyce Cary book The Horse's Mouth

Source: The Horse's Mouth

Wisdom, World, Forgiveness, Heart

“Forget Jesus, the stars died so you could be born.”

Lawrence M. Krauss (1954) American physicist

Source: A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

Star

“Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.”

Barbara Bush (1925–2018) former First Lady of the United States

Variant: Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.

Sex

“Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?"

Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Smile

“The trick was forgetting about what she had lost… and learning to go on with what she had left.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Love in the Afternoon

Learning

“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Source: The Great Gatsby

Sadness, Sad, Heartbreaking, Depressing

“If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Life, Feeling, Imagination, Past

“I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

“It is my favorite thing, I think, that I have ever seen. Sometimes I catch myself staring at it and forget my duties. It seems big enough to contain everything anyone could ever feel.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Feeling, Thinking

“But there is one thing you must remember, if you forget all else. There is no good or evil, save in the way you see the world. There is no dark or light save in your own vision. All changes in the blink of an eyelid; yet all remains the same.”

Juliet Marillier book Daughter of the Forest

Source: Daughter of the Forest

World, Way, Light, Evil

“Women and elephants never forget.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

Women

“What you forget when you're planning a hijack by yourself is somewhere along the line, you might need to neglect your hostages just long enough so you can use the bathroom.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

“Do not mistake me for my mask. You see light dappling on the water and forget the deep, cold dark beneath.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Light, Water

“I been watchin' you, workin day and night, slavin so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

People, Stupidity, Time, Night

“The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!”

Alexander Pope Eloisa to Abelard

Source: Eloisa to Abelard

World

“Elephants can remember, but we are human beings and mercifully human beings can forget.”

Agatha Christie Elephants Can Remember

Source: Elephants Can Remember

“I did the searching and remembering, she did the disappearing and the forgetting.”

Ann Brashares book My Name is Memory

Source: My Name Is Memory

Search, Sad, Heartbreaking, Missing You

“Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

Food

“Live your life and forget your age.”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Variant: Live your life, not your age.

Life, Age

“We forget very easily what gives us pain.”

Graham Greene book The Ministry of Fear

Source: The Ministry of Fear

Pain

“Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?”

Yves Saint Laurent (1936–2008) fashion designer

“They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are.”

Ann-Marie MacDonald book Fall on Your Knees

Source: Fall on Your Knees

Love, World

“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”

Elie Wiesel book Night

Source: Night

Time, Dead

“When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: The Short Stories

Feeling, Girl, Parting

“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you're inspired or not. Habit will help you finish and polish your stories. Inspiration won't. Habit is persistence in practice.”

Octavia E. Butler book Bloodchild and Other Stories

Source: Bloodchild and Other Stories

Help, Dependency, Motivational, Success

“The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees, leave their horns at home, send their black hats to the dry cleaner's. They're funny like that.”

Jim Butcher book White Night

Source: White Night

Guy, Home

“One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

People

“Fear's greatest weapon is its ability to blind one to anything. In its presence, we forget there are others to consider, things to save besides ourselves.”

Jonathan Carroll book Bones of the Moon

Source: Bones of the Moon

Fear

“Death! Strange that there should be such a word, and such a thing, and we ever forget it; that one should be living, warm and beautiful, full of hopes, desires and wants, one day, and the next be gone, utterly gone, and forever!”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin

Death, Beauty, Hope

“I'm home! Yuki-Kun, Tohru-Kun, I'm home! Oh, and let's not forget Stupid-clumsy-Kyo-Kun-who-lost-yet-another-fight!" -Shigure”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Source: Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

Stupidity, Home, Fight

“Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.”

Rita Rudner (1953) American comedian

Women, Men, Sport

“Those who can forget the past are way ahead of the rest of us.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Variant: Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it.
Source: Choke

Way, Past

“Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.”

Paulo Coelho book Eleven Minutes

Source: Eleven Minutes

Books, Reading

“We must never forget that we are cosmic revolutionaries, not stooges conscripted to advance a natural order that kills everybody.”

Alan Harrington (1933–2019) Welsh footballer

Nature

“Only do not forget, if I wake up crying
it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child

hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands….”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Dreams, Cry, Night

“We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

Intelligence, Thinking

“The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Sad, Missing You

“She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.”

Madeleine L'Engle book And Both Were Young

Source: And Both Were Young

Fear, Beauty, Feeling, Sense

“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

Life, Sadness, Sleep

“No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

Night, Country

“There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Five Orange Pips

Source: The Five Orange Pips

Way, Weather

“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.”

Paulo Coelho book By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (1994)
Variant: Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

Pain, Suffering, Waiting