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Quotes About Forgotten

By the elements, by the ten directions. I have not forgotten. My name is Jacob Dust, and I have not forgotten.
~ Elizabeth Bear
Just because you forget the world does not mean that the world forgets you.
~ Elizabeth Chadwick
He can't remeber who he is or where he lives." "Well that's convenient." "Not when it rains.
~ Elizabeth Chandler
Once somebody is dead, the world reveals all the things they might have enjoyed if they weren't.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Cuando mi piel recuperó un tono uniforme, dormí con otro hombre y descubrí, al ver mis manos torpemente tiradas en la sábana a ambos lados de mi cuerpo, que había olvidado qué hacer con ellas.
~ Elizabeth McNeill
I'd forgotten how much feelings hurt.
~ Elizabeth Scott
What puzzled Abel about life was how much one forgot but then lived with anyway—like phantom limbs, he supposed.
~ Elizabeth Strout
That out of sight is out of mind is true of most we leave behind
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
Siamo circondati da sacri mestieri del bene e del male, e viviamo e ci muoviamo in un mondo oscuro, un luogo di tenebre, caverne ed abitatori del crepuscolo. Talvolta accade che l'uomo si volga indietro sulle tracce della propria evoluzione, ed è mia opinione che esistano segreti paurosi non ancora dimenticati.
~ Arthur Machen
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
~ Arthur Machen
So these—these were the Wanderings for which the youth of Vienna had yesterday sent him their thanks. Had he deserved them? He would not have been able to say. The whole sorry life that he had led now passed through his mind. Never had he felt so deeply that he was an old man, that not only the hopes, but also the disappointments lay far behind him. A dull hurt rose up in him. He put the book aside, he could not read on. He had the feeling that he had long since forgotten about himself.
~ Arthur Schnitzler
An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
~ Arturo Pérez-Reverte
Today will just be something else that they don't talk about, something else that probably never happened.
~ Aryn Kyle
That great dust-heap called 'history'.
~ Augustine Birrell
The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The past is just that.
~ B.J. Daniels
Published in 1947, 'The Plague' has often been read as an allegory, a book that is really about the occupation of France, say, or the human condition. But it's also a very good book about plagues, and about how people react to them - a whole category of human behavior that we have forgotten.
~ Anne Applebaum
A generation of men really built the NFL and gave guys like me a shot, and a lot of these guys are left out in the cold by the league and forgotten.
~ Chris Borland
I don't want to be that kind of sorcerer, said Anya swiftly. Besides, you wouldn't...you wouldn't love me then, would you? We will always love you, said Tanitha. But you would not know that if you become like the Duke. He has grown too cold form his magic, and has forgotten what it means to love.
~ Garth Nix
She had forgotten his faults as we forget the sorrows of our departed childhood.
~ George Eliot
Throughout their friendship Deronda had been used to Hans' egotism, but he had never before felt intolerant of it: when Hans, habitually pouring out his own feelings and affairs, had never cared for any detail in return, and, if he chanced to know any, had soon forgotten it
~ George Eliot
I have always been interested in abandoned cars. I can't tell you how many times I've been in a car, driving, and there's a car sitting in a pasture, totally abandoned. Or on the edge of a creek or something. I always wonder: why did somebody park it in the pasture and leave?
~ Kathi Appelt
'You Must Remember This', the podcast about 'the secret and or forgotten history of Hollywood's first century', has a thread dedicated to Dead Blondes, which is a clue to where it's coming from.
~ David Hepworth