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Quotes About Forget

For someone bent on achievement, education is a thing you get past and forget about as quickly as possible.
~ Daniel Quinn
In Specter, history becomes what never happened. People mess things up, forget and remember all the wrong things. What's left is fiction.
~ Daniel Wallace
Do they matter?—those dreams from the pit?... You can drink and forget and be glad, And people won't say that you're mad; For they'll know you've fought for your country And no one will worry a bit.
~ Wilfred Owen
New York may be splendidly gay or squalidly gay but prince or pauper, it's gay always...Yes, gay is the word...but frantic. I can't get used to it. They forget death, Basil; they forget death in New York.
~ William Dean Howells
I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
~ William Faulkner
Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words
~ William Faulkner
I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it.
~ William Faulkner
I give it (grandfather's watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.
~ William Faulkner
Forget grief. Only an idiot has no grief, and only a fool would forget it. What else is there in this world sharp enough to stick to your guts?
~ William Faulkner
If you could shut your ears to the slow suck down of the sea and boil of the return, if you could forget how dun and unvisited were the ferny coverts on either side, then there was a chance that you might put the beast out of mind and dream for a while.
~ William Golding
Buttercup's mother whirled on him. 'Did you forget to pay your taxes?' (This was after taxes. But everything is after taxes. Taxes were here even before stew.)
~ William Goldman
The wrong people die, some of them, and the reason is this: life is not fair. Forget all the garbage your parents put out. Remember Morgenstern. You'll be a lot happier.
~ William Goldman
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
~ William Kent Krueger
An everyday Doomsayer in sandwich board abruptly walked away from what, over the last several days, had been his pitch, by the gates of a museum. The sign on his front was an oldschool Prophecy of the End. The one bobbing on his back read 'forget it.
~ China Mieville
Just as you've deceived me, so will your mind deceive you. When you need the Brahmastra the most, you'll forget the mantra needed to call it up.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
advise you to forget about love, princess. Pleasure is simpler, and duty more important. Learn to be satisfied with them." I should have believed her and modified my expectations. But I didn't. Deep in my stubborn heart I was convinced I deserved more.
~ Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
It's painful to hold out hope for the things that once brought you joy. You have to find ways to make yourself forget.
~ Christina Baker Kline
When I am dead, my dearest,Sing no sad songs for me;Plant thou no roses at my head,Nor shady cypress tree.Be the green grass above meWith showers and dewdrops wet;And if thou wilt, rememberAnd if thou wilt, forget.
~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
Be the green grass above me, with showers and dewdrops wet; and if thou wilt, remember, and if thou wilt, forget.
~ Christina Rossetti
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
~ Christina Rossetti
For if the darkness and corruption leave A vestige of the thoughts that once I had, Better by far you should forget and smile Than that you should remember and be sad.
~ Christina Rossetti
People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence. —James Baldwin
~ Henry A. Giroux
We that did nothing study but the wayTo love each other, with which thoughts the dayRose with delight to us, and with them set,Must learn the hateful art, how to forget.
~ Henry King
Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
~ Henry Miller