Quotes about forgetting

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“Ye need her as she needs ye…. and Inuyasha… DO NOT FORGET WHERE YE BURIED ME!”

“It’s the final word in camouflage. Forget chucking weights around. Peeta should have gone into his private session with the Gamemakers and painted himself into a tree. Or a boulder. Or a muddy bank full of weeds.”

“Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
A cloak of leaves, a moonbeam ray
Forget your woes and let your troubles lay
And when again it's morning, they'll wash away.

Here it's safe, here it's warm
Here the daisies guard you from every harm

The final lines are barely audible.

Here your dreams are sweet and tomorrow brings them true
Here is the place where I love you.”

“Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.”

“One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours' sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory.”

“Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things… as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value.”

“If you want to be a writer, you have to write every day… You don't go to a well once but daily. You don't skip a child's breakfast or forget to wake up in the morning…”

“Too often we forget that discipline really means to teach, not to punish. A disciple is a student, not a recipient of behavioural consequences.”

“As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.”

“Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs.”

“What was the point of being able to forgive, when deep down, you both had to admit you'd never forget?”

“To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people who are desperately lonely lose themselves in mental illness or violence to forget the inner pain.”

“The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.”

“The pounding music, the cheers, the admiration work their way into my blood, and I can’t suppress my excitement. Cinna has given me a great advantage. No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”

“it's good to have things done with
when they don't work
it's also good not to hate
or even forget
the person you've failed with.”

“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with love
And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,

But this will not be one of them.”

“How can you just forget a person completely until the moment you see his face again?”

“Even today, I hunt for the fabulous books that will change me utterly. I find myself happiest in the middle of a book which I forget that I am reading, but am instead immersed in a made-up life lived at the highest pitch.”

“To a man born without conscience, a soul-stricken man must seem ridiculous. To a criminal, honesty is foolish. You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”

“I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.”

“My mother just wanted me to forget it. So, of course, every word was immediately, irrevocably branded into my brain.”

“What he's really saying is: Please be a human being. With a life so full of rules and regiments, it's so easy to forget that's what they are. She knows—she sees—how often compassion takes a back seat to expediency.”

“We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.”

“No one reads; if someone does read, he doesn't understand; if he understands, he immediately forgets.”

“Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little".”

“that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep.”

“Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.”

“I was waiting for the longest time, she said. I thought you forgot.

It is hard to forget, I said, when there is such an empty space when you are gone.”

“Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.”

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

“I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.”

“Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.”

“Forget solar energy—if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.”

“Some stories stayed with you even when you wanted to forget them.”

“I’m a psychic amnesiac. I know in advance what I’ll forget.”

“Don't you want the guy who'll forget about all the other things in his life before he forgets about you?”

“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.”

“It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.”

“It comes, I suppose,” I said thoughtfully, speaking to the air, “of spending too much time alone indoors, and forgetting that living things don’t always stay where you put them.”

“When along the pavement,
Palpitating flames of life,
People flicker around me,
I forget my bereavement,
The gap in the great constellation,
The place where a star used to be”

“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”

“Don't think I was the only reason he healed. You're his light, Marissa. Don't ever forget that.”

“With children the clock is reset. We forget what came before”

“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was "illegal."”

“If only it were that easy. You forget: I have an addictive personality. I'm addicted to you. Somehow I think you could do all sorts of bad things to me, and I'd still come back to you.”

“The best way to get even is to forget.”

“Better that we leave the paint behind," Hans told her, "than ever forget the music.”

“Love does not forget!”

“Kissing is something that makes up for a lot of other crap you have to put up with… It can be confusing and weird and awkward, but sometimes it just makes you melt and forget everything that is going on.”

“The word friends doesn't seem to stretch big enough to describe how we feel about each other. We forget where one of us starts and the other one stops.”

“Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?"
Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.”

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”

“I hate horses. I know people who think that they are noble, graceful animals, but regardless of what a horse looks like from a distance, never forget that it's as likely to step on your foot as look at you.”

“Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.”

“Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.”

“I know why familles were created, with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.”

“Hinged to forgetfulness like a door,
she slowly closed out of sight,
and she was the woman I loved,
but too many times she slept like
a mechanical deer in my caresses,
and I ached in the metal silence
of her dreams.”

“Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.”

“I hated to leave her and I hated to
be near her,
because she made me remember what I wanted most to forget.”

“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”

“Sometimes when we forget to do things for others, it's because we're too wrapped up in our own problems.”

“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.”

“We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.”

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.”

“We Woosters do not lightly forget. At least, we do - some things - appointments, and people's birthdays, and letters to post, and all that - but not an absolutely bally insult like the above.”

“Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.”

“I'll never forget my first time with you' Min said as she edged the doughnut off her finger. 'The earth moved, and then my mother asked my father who he was going down on at lunch.”

“Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.”

“Do you forget that I am your sister?”
“No; I’ve never been granted the opportunity to forget it.”

“Life has never been All or Nothing- it's All and Nothing. Forget the binaries.”

“You never forget your first love.”

“I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said… but did not.”

“No one will forget me. Not my look, not my name. Katniss. The girl who was on fire.”

“You forget, darling.
Ithe local psychopath.”

“Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.”

“Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.”

“But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.”

“Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so”

“Fiction is truth, even if it is not fact. If you believe only in facts and forget stories, your brain will live, but your heart will die.”

“You play games with people's lives.(…) You forget that they are fragile.”

“You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.”

“It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.”

“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”

“We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.”

“Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.”

“If this were a movie, I would bust a secret move so fierce the entire place would be razed to the ground. I'd finish with something snappy like "And don't forget my soda, punk" while I strolled off into the night.”

“In secret we met
In silence I grieve,
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.”

“Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up; I forget them almost immediately.”

“And we forget because we must and not because we will.”

“People change and forget to tell each other.”

“At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.”

“What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.”

“When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.”

“Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?”

“As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”

“You will find joy, frustration and sorrow in your quest. Never forget that friendship and loyalty are more precious than riches… Happiness can be brief, but it knows no time in the land of dreams.”

“Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.”

“every man has a map in his heart of his own country and that the heart will never allow you to forget this map. (p. 18)”