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Quotes About Forgotten

Snow fell and the last traces of men were covered with a thick, white blanket. The people of Hunor and Magyar had left the headlands of wild Altain-Ula forever. The snowcapped peaks had looked at their coming and going with indifference; in twelve moons they had forgotten them. To the everlasting mountains they meant no more than the passing of dry leaves blown by the wind.
~ Kate Seredy
Soren had been given the number 82-85. He couldn't remember what his previous number had
~ Kathryn Lasky
Some of you will have fine monuments by which the living may remember the evil done to you. Some of you will have only crude wooden crosses or painted rocks, while yet others of you must remain hidden in the shadows of history.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
What kind of god is it, sir, wishes wrongs to go forgotten and unpunished?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
She's no dream woman I keep telling you, princess. Everyone here knew her a month ago and had a good word for her. What can it be makes everyone, yourself included, forget she ever lived?
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
But Axl, we can't even remember those days. Or any of the years between. We don't remember our fierce quarrels or the small moments we enjoyed and treasured. We don't remember our son or why he's away from us.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
Little of God, then a little of ghosts, is that it, bub?" as though our unfortunate argument were forgotten. "Well . . . keep a tight hold on it.
~ Ken Kesey
To be altarless is to be voiceless
~ Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Like the brief doomed flare of exploding suns that registers dimly on blind men's eyes, the beginning of the horror passed almost unnoticed; in the shriek of what followed, in fact, was forgotten and perhaps not connected to the horror at all.
~ William Peter Blatty
Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back,Wherein he puts alms for oblivion.
~ William Shakespeare
Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave,But not remember'd in thy epitaph!
~ William Shakespeare
O! my oblivion is a very Antony,And I am all forgotten.
~ William Shakespeare
Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.
~ William Shakespeare
I did, however, watch the movie I had made in the universal language of Esperanto, Incubus. I'd made it just before we started filming Star Trek, and by the time it was released, I had already forgotten how to speak the language, so like the few people who actually saw this film, I didn't understand it either.
~ William Shatner
Bagian terindah dari kehidupan manusia yang baik, adalah segala tindakan yang kecil, tak bernama, terlupakan, dari kebaikan dan cinta
~ William Wordsworth
Jesus, we forgot the goddamn ape!
~ Winston Groom
All these things we had long since forgotten she gathered up one by one in her hands, caressing and warming them until they came back to life. It was as if she had come in place of the goddess of the rainbow to offer her grace and affection. She was perhaps the only one who ever truly loved the Hotel Iris.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I'd imagine you'd be uncomfortable, with your heart full of so many forgotten things." "No, that's not really a problem. A heart has no shape, no limits. That's why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It's much like your memory, in that sense.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Excuse me,- I said, but my voice seemed to disappear into the dark. It was my body. In this gloomy, cramped box, I had eaten poison plants and died, hidden away from prying eyes. Crouching down at the door, I wept. For my dead self.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
I'd imagine you'd be uncomfortable, with your heart full of so many forgotten things.
~ Y?ko Ogawa
Paperback novelettes with faded covers still bore coffee stains and greasy fingerprints from their first readers. The books can never forget their readers, though the readers have no doubt forgotten all about the books' contents.
~ Y?ko Tawada
When there's a moon the shadows in the house grow larger; invisible hands draw back the curtains, a pallid finger writes forgotten words on dust of the piano...
~ Yannis Ritsos
And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.
~ David Marusek