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Quotes About Forgotten

Mi cabeza está llena de nombres cuyos rostros he olvidado o son sólo una mancha flotando en un paisaje
~ Javier Marías
Tante cose accadono senza che nessuno le ricordi o se ne accorga. Di quasi nulla resta traccia.. e di quel poco che rimane tanto si tace, e di quel che non si tace si ricorda soltanto una parte minima' e per poco tempo, non si trasmette e non interessa chi la riceve, il quale plasma e possiede la sua propria memoria.
~ Javier Marías
Es lo malo que tiene cuanto nos sucede y no es registrado, o aún peor, ni siquiera sabido ni visto ni oído, porque luego no hay forma de recuperarlo.
~ Javier Marías
She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
~ Edith Wharton
It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters… any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: 'Use unknown.
~ Edith Wharton
She herself was large and saturnine, with a battlemented black lace cap, and so deaf that she seemed a survival of forgotten days, a Rosetta Stone to which the clue was lost.
~ Edith Wharton
The patch of lawn before it had relapsed into a hayfield; but to the left an overgrown box-garden full of dahlias and rusty rose-bushes encircled a ghostly summer-house of trellis-work that had once been white, surmounted by a wooden Cupid who had lost his bow and arrow but continued to take ineffectual aim.
~ Edith Wharton
Their squalor, being indescribable, will not be described.
~ Edmund Crispin
The details of how faith works in spiritual warfare are well known but easily forgotten.
~ Edward T. Welch
Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten.
~ Albert J. Nock
The problem, then, is how to bring about a striving for harmony with land among a people many of whom have forgotten there is any such thing as land, among whom education and culture have become almost synonymous with landlessness. This is the problem of conservation education.
~ Aldo Leopold
The abandoned bonfire kills its own light.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Si nos espera el olvido, tratemos de no merecerlo.
~ Alejandro Dolina
Com'è felice il destino dell'incolpevole vestale! Dimentica del mondo, dal mondo dimenticata. Infinita letizia della mente candida! Accettata ogni preghiera e rinunciato a ogni desiderio.
~ Alexander Pope
Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew — seeing them freshly — old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.
~ Alexander Shulgin
So my brain is as stuffed as some old broken-down Commodore you see left in the bush.
~ Alexis Wright
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
~ Robert W. Welch, Jr.
A good two years after Hurricane Katrina I remember feeling so devastated and so ignorant that there was so much damage still left. I felt like here I was an American and this is an American city and the government hasn't done enough and people haven't given back enough. Everyone forgot and the city was lying in waste.
~ AnnaLynne McCord
To truly cherish the things that are important to you, you must first discard those that have outlived their purpose. And if you no longer need them, then that is neither wasteful nor shameful. Can you truthfully say that you treasure something buried so deeply in a cupboard or drawer that you have forgotten its existence?
~ Marie Kondo
I've done some bits of shockingly bad TV that have never been shown, or at least I hope they've never been shown... Please don't dig them out!
~ Elliot Cowan
Everyone has their 'Showgirls.' We remember the great films actors have been in, and the rest get forgotten. But occasionally, people like to revisit the ones that get swept aside.
~ Kyle MacLachlan
The sword is very handsome. I am too old and infirm, as you see, to ever use a sword again, but I am glad that my old mother state has not entirely forgotten me.
~ George Rogers Clark
As historians write more and more histories, it's a sort of self-fulfilling prophecy that other historians read their histories and then make synthesis, and certain things just get forgotten and left out and neglected.
~ Peter Morgan
There was no hope on earth, and God seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the Son of God; others did not see Him. If He had come, He would do some great things as He had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither Him nor His works.
~ Red Cloud