Quotes About Forgetting

Everywhere, Everywhere amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery, ever defensive, thwarted by the forces. amazing, the energy we burn fueling our anger. amazing, how one moment we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. not hours of this or days or months or years of this but decades, lifetimes completely use up, given over to the prettiest rancor and hatred. finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. As

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath elsewhere had its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory, do we come From God, who is our home.

You know, martial arts is all about respect and discipline and it's always been about that. But again, people are starting to forget that, people are missing that, and this is where I believe I can help and it's good for our sport.

You can't be selfish. But we men-it's a wonder we forget ourselves long enough to buy a birthday card. As for love... we can love, but we're always forgetting.

Irishmen with guns were like squirrels with nuts, always stashing them, and sometimes forgetting where the hell they'd been stashed.

They say women are blessed with the ability to forget the pain of childbirth so they will be able to have more children later. I often wonder whether the same principle applies to the challenges of writing a book of this magnitude. Had another author warned me about what a monumental task it would be, I'm not sure I would have been so insane as to pursue the dream.

However, there is something worse than idealizing the past—or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.

I ate a rough country terrine made of truffled pork with thyme and forgot about talking.

You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago.

The human brain has a mechanism for dealing with data overload. It forgets. If indeed we're on a path to building machines that think like us, how ironic if the next great invention in computer memory turns out to be forgetting.

My mom had once told me that being a mother was made up of "regret and then forgetting about that regret sometimes.

It had been years since she question his fidelity, but he'd stepped on to the old fame track again, and that was where the road had taken them before. Infidelity could be forgiven, but forgetting it was impossible. Strangely, that wasn't what bothered her the most. What bothered her was that she didn't really care.

In his youth Albert Einstein spent a year loafing aimlessly. You don't get anywhere by not 'wasting' time – something, unfortunately, which the parents of teenagers tend frequently to forget. He

Confabulation, distortion, and plain forgetting are the foot soldiers of memory, and they are summoned to the front lines when the totalitarian ego wants to protect us from the pain and embarrassment of actions we took that are dissonant with our core self-images:

If he didn't talk about it, maybe he would forget. He had never wanted to remember. It might not even be a true remembering." - Bran

Forgetting takes a lot of work. You have to constantly remember that you are supposed to forget something. Surely, that's how every ideology functions.

What you don't know may not hurt you, but what you don't remember always does.

'The horror of that moment,' the King went on, T shall never, never forget!' 'You will, though,'the Queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'

We forget because we must And not because we will.

So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

The memories of events and statesmen paled as the years passed. Dust covered them, mud stained them, until they were finally erased as if they had never been. But recently people had come to understand that forgetting was more difficult and complicated than remembering.

Cuando cruzas el océano en barco, todos los recuerdos se te borran y empiezas una vida completamente nueva. Así es la cosa. No hay nada antes. No hay Historia. El barco amarra en el puerto, bajamos por la pasarela y nos zambullimos en el presente. El tiempo empieza entonces. Las agujas del reloj echan a andar.