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Quotes About Forget

Having sport allowed me to forget about the ups and downs of my condition and think about a set goal, which was to become a Paralympic champion, to become a world champion.
~ Kadeena Cox
I have a really bad memory, to be honest.
~ Tierra Whack
All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.
~ Sarah Dessen
When I'm back with my own memories I drink a glass of wine or a cup of coffee. It helps soften their pressure, but the effect fades. Then I think I should practice grace for what I've been given to remember, but whatever I do, I can't seem to forget what I want to forget. And then I think I don't need to write anything down ever again. Nothing's gone, not really. Everything that's ever happened has left its little wound. ?
~ Sarah Manguso
All I could see in the world were beginnings and endings: moments to survive, record, and, once recorded, safely forget. I knew I was getting somewhere when I began losing interest in the beginnings and the ends of things.
~ Sarah Manguso
What do you do,' said Jean, 'with, ah, "ungifted" children when you have them?' 'Cherish them and raise them, you imbecile. Most of them end up working for us, in Karthain and elsewhere. What did you think we'd do, burn them on a pyre?' 'Forget I asked
~ Scott Lynch
Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.
~ Oscar Wilde
Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
~ Mark Twain
My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.
~ Mark Twain
How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
How do we remember this emptiness so in fullness we won't forget?' Asked once, when emptiness was the worst. Why ever [would] he want to remember that?
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Another small mystery to muse over, if you like, or just forget, which I recommend.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
If you can fall in love again and again, if you can forgive your parents for the crime of bringing you into the world, if you are content to get nowhere, just take each day as it comes, if you can forgive as well as forget, if you can keep from growing sour, surly, bitter and cynical, man you've got it half licked.
~ Arthur Miller
When all the decent pleasures are forbidden, there's always ways to get the rotten ones. You don't break into grocery stores after dark and you don't pick your fellow's pockets to buy classical symphonies or fishing tackle, but if it's to get stinking drunk and forget you do.
~ Ayn Rand
I wanted to stop her; in the darkness and silence we occasionally managed to throw off our despair for a while by making each other forget.
~ Stanis?aw Lem
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.
~ Stephen King
Whenever anything happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.
~ Stephen King
Resurrection... ah, there's a word (that you should put right the fuck out of your mind and you know it).
~ Stephen King
You see, I may be trying to forget, but I still remember quite a lot.
~ Stephen King
Knowledge may be power, but half of what I know I wish I could forget.
~ Carroll Bryant
Reward those who help you. Forget those who use you. Ignore those who judge you. Forgive those who wrong you.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
HOLLOW-TOOTH SYNDROME: Compulsion to torture oneself mentally, based on the fact that nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
~ Jon Winokur
It's more difficult for a mother to forget one child than for living humanity to forget all the millions who died in this war.
~ Jonas Mekas