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Quotes About Forgetting

I really started to forget things. That's why I quit reciting statistics: because I couldn't remember them exactly, and I stayed away from mentioning some players by name because I really wasn't sure, and I didn't want to make a mistake.
~ Terry Bradshaw
The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
~ Thomas Wolfe
De nemsokára mi is meghalunk, minket is csak egy kis ideig szeretnek még., aztán elfelejtenek. De a szeretetnek ez teljesen elegendÅ'. A szeretet minden megnyilvánulása visszahull a szeretetre, amelybÅ'l fakadt. Annak, aki szeret, nincsen szüksége arra, hogy emlékezzenek rá. Van az elevenek országa meg a holtak országa, s a híd a szeretet, csak az marad meg, az az élet egyetlen értelme.
~ Thornton Wilder
Over time, I've paid attention, taken notes and forgotten easily half of everything I've gone through.
~ Carrie Fisher
Hiçbir ÅŸey, her ÅŸeyi unutabilmenin verdiÄŸi huzurdan deÄŸerli olamaz.
~ Orhan Pamuk
I tried desperately to remember her, only to realize that despite love, a face long not seen finally fades.
~ Orhan Pamuk
You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ten presente que las cosas que te metes en la cabeza están ahí para siempre. Quizá deberías pensar en eso. —Algunas cosas las olvidas, ¿no? —Sí. Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Man glömmer det man vill minnas och man minns det man vill glömma.
~ Cormac McCarthy
There's things I remember and things I forget. I miss you; I guess that I should.
~ Counting Crows
But just as the capacity to forget is a gift of grace, so memory, the recalling of the lessons we have learnt, is an essential element in responsible living." —LETTERS AND PAPERS FROM PRISON
~ Charles R. Ringma
I feel like I'm forgetting something. Vyrus. Clans. Zombies. Stay out of the sun. Don't get shot. Abandon your life. Drink blood to survive. No, guess that pretty much covers it.
~ Charlie Huston
First you learn the instrument, then you learn the music, then you forget all that s**t and just play.
~ Charlie Parker
To forget is good—but hard. To forgive is better.            Best of all is reconciliation.
~ Hans von Luck
I used to think, if there was anything in the world he did love, it was our dear little Eva; but he seems to be forgetting her very easily. I cannot ever get him to talk about her. I really did think he would show more feeling!" "Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me," said Miss Ophelia, oracularly.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
In het ene landschap was ik het vorige vergeten, zoals je op straat onafgebroken gezichten ziet, die je onafgebroken vergeet
~ Harry Mulisch
Alles zal vergeten worden en ten slotte verdwijnen en dan nooit gebeurd zijn. En het is deze gedachte, die hem plotseling de verdorven kracht geef om te doen wat hem te doen staat.
~ Harry Mulisch
I know this book will be controversial, but honestly? I keep forgetting why.
~ Laurie Frankel
It is said that those who fail to remember history are doomed to repeat it. That's not quite correct. We all forget history. The key is whether we have a way to go back to rediscover what we forget. More directly, the key is whether an objective past can keep us honest.
~ Lawrence Lessig
We want to forget until we start to forget. from the poem Regret
~ Lawrence Raab
I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me. I apply many of the things I learned in school, but I've forgotten most. Random snippets of the rules come back to me, at times, but my mind will eventually eradicate them all, relearn them, and reinvent them.
~ Lee Gutkind
Hungry licked her spoon and then pointed it at me. 'Aren't you forgetting the dishes?' she asked. 'Absolutely not,' I said. 'I'll remember the dishes as long as I live. See you later, Hungry.
~ Lemony Snicket
Ah, se se pudesse arrancar o passado com as suas raízes! É impossível, infelizmente, mas pelo menos pode-se fingir esquecer
~ Leo Tolstoi