“Everything tender and melancholy - as life is sometimes, just for one moment.”
Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight
Source: Good Morning, Midnight
“Sometimes it just takes a moment to forget a life, but sometimes life is not enough to forget for a moment. ”
Last update June 3, 2021. History
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "Sometimes it just takes a moment to forget a life, but sometimes life is not enough to forget for a moment. " by Jim Morrison?
Jim Morrison129
lead singer of The Doors 1943–1971Related quotes
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894) Poet, essayist, physician
Source: The Professor at the Breakfast Table (1859), Ch. X.
Context: Poets are never young, in one sense. Their delicate ear hears the far-off whispers of eternity, which coarser souls must travel towards for scores of years before their dull sense is touched by them. A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
“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
“Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed … reminding.”
Steven Erikson book Toll the Hounds
Toll the Hounds (2008)
Context: Sometimes, mortals did indeed forget. Sometimes, mortals needed... reminding.
“It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are.”
Publilio Siro Latin writer
Maxim 233
Sentences, The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave
Georges Bataille (1897–1962) French intellectual and literary figure
Return unmotivates the moment and frees life of ends.
Source: On Nietzsche (1945), p. xxxiii
“Sometimes… you have to try to forget people you love just so you can keep living.”
Jacqueline Woodson (1963) American writer
Source: Between Madison and Palmetto
“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