Quotes about forgetting page 7

“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.”

Source: The Hunger Games

Tree, Painting

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

Katniss Everdeen, Rue's song, p. 235
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

Love, Dreams

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

Source: Happy Birthday

“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.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Source: Mike and Psmith

Sleep, Memory, Time, Night

“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.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

“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…”

Walter Mosley (1952) American writer

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

Daniel J. Siegel (1957) American psychiatrist

Source: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive

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

John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) 35th president of the United States of America

"Proclamation 3560 — Thanksgiving Day, 1963" (5 November 1963) http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=9511 <br class="br">1963 <br class="br">Context: Today we give our thanks, most of all, for the ideals of honor and faith we inherit from our forefathers — for the decency of purpose, steadfastness of resolve and strength of will, for the courage and the humility, which they possessed and which we must seek every day to emulate. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.<br>Let us therefore proclaim our gratitude to Providence for manifold blessings — let us be humbly thankful for inherited ideals — and let us resolve to share those blessings and those ideals with our fellow human beings throughout the world.

Gratitude, Inspirational, Positive

“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.”

John Keats Ode to a Nightingale

Stanza 3
Poems (1820), Ode to a Nightingale

Men, Youth, Sadness, Thinking

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

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Forgiveness

“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.”

Jean Vanier (1928–2019) Canadian humanitarian

From books
Source: Jean Vanier, Becoming Human, 2001

Death, Pain, People, Feeling

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

Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer

Source: A Circle of Quiet

Question, Thinking

“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”

Source: The Hunger Games

Music, Way, Girl

James Stephens book Irish Fairy Tales

Source: Irish Fairy Tales

Memory, Past

“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.”

Charles Bukowski book Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Source: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Hate, Personality

“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.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Traveling Light: Stories & Drawings for a Quiet Mind

Love, World, Strong

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

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Personality

“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.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Source: My Reading Life

Life, Books, Change, Reading

“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.”

John Steinbeck book East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

Soul

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

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Age

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

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“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.”

Neal Shusterman book Unwind

Source: Unwind

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

Anne Perry (1938) English author

Way, Hurt

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

Stanisław Lem (1921–2006) Polish science fiction author

Understanding, Reading

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

Dale Carnegie book How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

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

Jeffrey Eugenides book The Virgin Suicides

Source: The Virgin Suicides

Suicide, Sleep, Waiting, Night

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

Denis Diderot book Rameau's Nephew

Rameau's Nephew (1762)

“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.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Source: Story People: Selected Stories & Drawings of Brian Andreas

Time, Waiting

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

Gail Carson Levine (1947) American writer

People, Change, Past

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

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903–1990) English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist

Fish, Dead

“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.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Life, Drink

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

Michael Simkins (1956) British actor

Source: Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education

Past, Dead

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

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Challenger Deep

World

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

Alice Hoffman The Story Sisters

Source: The Story Sisters

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

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

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

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

Life, Guy

“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.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

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

Haruki Murakami book Kafka on the Shore

Source: Kafka on the Shore

“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.”

Naomi Novik book Uprooted

Source: Uprooted

“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”

D.H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter

Life, People, Star

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

Melinda Haynes (1955) American writer

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

Jessica Bird book Lover Revealed

Source: Lover Revealed

Thinking, Light

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

Jhumpa Lahiri book The Lowland

Source: The Lowland

Children

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

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1960s, (1963)

Freedom

“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.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Thinking, Personality

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

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: Mrs. Miracle

Way

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

Markus Zusak book The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

Music, Painting

“Love does not forget!”

Alex Flinn (1966) American children's writer

Source: A Kiss in Time

Love

“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.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: The Name of the Star

Kiss

“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.”

Ann Brashares The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Source: The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

Feeling

“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.”

Darren Shan book Hunters of the Dusk

Source: Hunters of the Dusk

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

Chuck Palahniuk book Survivor

Source: Survivor

People

“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.”

Megan Whalen Turner The Thief

Source: The Thief

Hate, People, Thinking, Animals

“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.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Children, Thinking

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

Milan Kundera book Immortality

Source: Immortality

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.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Life, Beauty

“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.”

Richard Brautigan (1935–1984) American novelist, poet, and short story writer

Source: Rommel Drives on Deep Into Egypt

Love, Dreams, Silence, Time

“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.”

Carrie Underwood (1983) American country music singer

World, Feeling

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

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Hate

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

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

Happiness, Hope

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

Lauren Myracle book Let It Snow

Source: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances

Problem

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

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“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.”

Abraham Verghese book Cutting for Stone

Source: Cutting for Stone

Life, Death

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

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

When We Two Parted (1808), st. 4.
Context: 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.

Secret, Silence, Heart

“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.”

P.G. Wodehouse book The Inimitable Jeeves

Source: The Inimitable Jeeves

People, Birthday

“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.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Obituary for physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (Nachruf auf Ernst Mach), Physikalische Zeitschrift 17 (1916), p. 101
1910s
Context: How does it happen that a properly endowed natural scientist comes to concern himself with epistemology? Is there not some more valuable work to be done in his specialty? That's what I hear many of my colleagues ask, and I sense it from many more. But I cannot share this sentiment. When I think about the ablest students whom I have encountered in my teaching — that is, those who distinguish themselves by their independence of judgment and not just their quick-wittedness — I can affirm that they had a vigorous interest in epistemology. They happily began discussions about the goals and methods of science, and they showed unequivocally, through tenacious defense of their views, that the subject seemed important to them.
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. [Begriffe, welche sich bei der Ordnung der Dinge als nützlich erwiesen haben, erlangen über uns leicht eine solche Autorität, dass wir ihres irdischen Ursprungs vergessen und sie als unabänderliche Gegebenheiten hinnehmen. ] Thus they might come to be stamped as "necessities of thought," "a priori givens," etc. The path of scientific progress is often made impassable for a long time by such errors. [Der Weg des wissenschaftlichen Fortschritts wird durch solche Irrtümer oft für längere Zeit ungangbar gemacht. ] Therefore it is by no means an idle game if we become practiced in analysing long-held commonplace concepts and showing the circumstances on which their justification and usefulness depend, and how they have grown up, individually, out of the givens of experience. Thus their excessive authority will be broken. They will be removed if they cannot be properly legitimated, corrected if their correlation with given things be far too superfluous, or replaced if a new system can be established that we prefer for whatever reason.

“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.”

Jennifer Crusie book Bet Me

Source: Bet Me

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

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

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

Georgette Heyer book Frederica

Source: Frederica

Sister

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

Jeanette Winterson book The Stone Gods

Source: The Stone Gods

“You never forget your first love.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped

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.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

Source: The Complete Poems

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

“You forget, darling.
Ithe local psychopath.”

Source: The Hunger Games

Girl

Kelley Armstrong book Bitten

Source: Bitten

“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.”

Vikas Swarup (1961) Indian novelist and diplomat

Source: Al Milyūnayr Al Mutasharrad =Slumdog Millionaire

World

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

Michael Chabon book The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Part I, ch. 2
Variant: "Forget about what you are escaping from," he said, quoting an old maxim of Kornblum's. "Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to."
Source: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000)

“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.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Time Untime

Life, Forgiveness, Learning, Past

“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”

Paulo Coelho book The Fifth Mountain

Source: The Fifth Mountain

Decision, Chance

“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.”

Cassandra Clare book Lord of Shadows

Source: Lord of Shadows

Truth, Heart

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

Patricia Briggs (1965) American writer

Source: Dragon Blood

People, Game

“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.”

Michael Connelly book The Fifth Witness

Source: The Fifth Witness

Game, Time, Parting

“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.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Love, Pain, People

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

Rebecca Solnit (1961) Author and essayist from United States

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

Art, Loss, Moving On

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

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

“Enjoy the questions and forget the answers.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Question

“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.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Secret, 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.”

George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement

When We Two Parted (1808), st. 4.

Secret, Tear, Silence, Heart

“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.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Variant: Most of the time, because of their failure to fasten on to words, my thoughts remain misty and nebulous. They assume vague, amusing shapes and are then swallowed up: I promptly forget them.
Source: Nausea