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Quotes About Forget

Help me to withstand your beauty as it stands out of reach. Give me the capacity to forget ever having felt your touch.
~ Henry Rollins
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There was no solution, but that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is, forget oneself.
~ Leo Tolstoy
It was better not to remember such terrible details.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Some mistakes in life are not punishable, others teach you a lesson you never forget.
~ Leslie Feinberg
The demons you have are what motivate you to make your art. This is what drives the detective, this is what drives the painter, this is what drives the writer: a conflicting urge to forget pain and at the same time remember it and fight for some kind of justice. I know these powerful things are inside of me and everyone in some way or another.
~ Tom Reiss
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.
~ Jules Verne
If this is a sad story, don't tell it to me tonight.''It is not sad,' she said. 'Only some things happen and are there for always even though you forget why or when.
~ Jean Rhys
She laughed. "What about your wings?" she said. "How can you forget those when the stumps are still deep in your shoulder-blades?" I didn't say anything. In the Bible only the angels have wings; the rest of us have to wait to be rescued.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Bone of my bone. Flesh of my flesh. To remember you it's my own body I touch. Thus she was, here and here. The physical memory blunders through the doors the mind has tried to seal. A skeleton key to Bluebeard's chamber. The bloody key that unlocks pain. Wisdom says forget, the body howls.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Ha! to forget. How childish! I feel you in my bones. Your silence screams in my ears. You may nail your mouth shut, you may cut out your tongue, can you keep yourself from existing? Will you stop your thoughts.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
Forget the past and live in the present hour. Now is the time to work, the time to fill The soul with noblest thoughts, the time to will.
~ Sarah Knowles Bolton
I would never say, "I'm retired." I believe if I decided to just not work, in six months everybody would just forget whether you were working or not.
~ Jack Nicholson
On the court, I get the opportunity to just open up all my feelings, everything that's wrong, everything I struggle with, I get to come out here and forget about it and get it out.
~ Trevor Ariza
I think basketball becomes an outlet for it, an opportunity to get that frustration out and forget about all the problems and things you have going on in your life outside.
~ Baron Davis
Their memory's like a train: you can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream.
~ Tom Waits
And the things you can't remember tell the things you can't forget that history puts a saint in every dream.
~ Tom Waits
And they all pretend they're Orphans And their memory's like a train You can see it getting smaller as it pulls away And the things you can't remember Tell the things you can't forget that History puts a saint in every dream
~ Tom Waits
Remember what I told you to forget?
~ Unknown
I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.
~ Tony Kushner
Mr. Lassiter, you know better than that," the judge said icily. He turned to the jury box. "The jury shall disregard Mr. Lassiter's last statement." I didn't mind the instruction. In my experience, jurors forget most everything I say, except what the judge tells them to disregard.
~ Paul Levine
Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.
~ Paulo Coelho
There is no better time than the autumn to begin forgetting the things that trouble us, allowing them to fall away like dried leaves. There is no better time to dance again, to make the most of every crumb of sunlight and warm body and soul with its rays before it falls asleep and becomes only a dim lightbulb in the skies.
~ Paulo Coelho
There is a legend that everything that falls into the waters of this river -- leaves, insects, the feathers of birds -- is transformed into the rocks that make the riverbed. If only I could tear out my heart and hurl it into the current, then my pain and longing would be over, and I could finally forget.
~ Paulo Coelho