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Quotes About Forgotten

We all remember the people who won the World Series and not the guy who struck out.
~ John Rampton
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.
~ Ray Bradbury
Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second World War.
~ Norman Davies
We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The drama came to an end and it is history.
~ Gulzar
The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.
~ Lea Salonga
Researching real history has taught me to be bolder and more imaginative in building fantasy worlds and writing fantasy characters, to seek out the margins of history and the forgotten tales that illuminate the whole, complex truth of our flawed yet wondrous nature as a species.
~ Ken Liu
Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.
~ Juliette Binoche
There is something sad about clothes laid in a tomb of trunks.
~ Suzy Menkes
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
~ Karl Shapiro
I don't remember much of my childhood. My father passed away when I was six, and sadly, I don't have the fuzziest, foggiest memory of him - what his voice was like, anything he ever said to me, nothing. My early years are a total blur.
~ Don Willett
The art of exorcising machines has been lost for so long that we have not a single book of prayers and ceremonies concerning it.
~ Sean McMullen
Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things.
~ Sebastian Barry
I cannot speak of the things I have seen, nor seek the comfort for the pain I feel. If I did, this nation would descend into a deeper kind of madness, or think of it's president mad. The truth, I am afraid, must live as paper and ink. Hidden and forgotten until every man named here has passed to dust.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
Man, in the traditional sense of the term corresponding to ins?n in Arabic or homo in Greek and not solely the male, is seen in Islam not as a sinful being to whom the message of Heaven is sent to heal the wound of the original sin, but as a being who still carries his primordial nature (al-fitrah) within himself, although he has forgotten that nature now buried deep under layers of negligence.
~ Seyyed Hossein Nasr
The past is never really gone. It only lies in wait for you, remembered or forgotten.
~ Sharon Cameron
The people who live happily ever after - they don't appear in the history books. They just fade away. I reckon that's what happiness is. Pauline Foster - " The Ballad of Tom Dooley ", Sharyn McCrumb, p. 271
~ Sharyn McCrumb
His fabrications seemed to be the framework of a forgotten but imposing plan; some condition of life of which he was the sole surviving retainer." --from "La Somnambule" (1937) by Djuna Barnes
~ Shaun Whiteside
Our first scene is sort of a reunion between the X-Men characters, which establishes everyone's relationship to one another, sort of like a recap for all those who have forgotten since the last movie.
~ Shawn Ashmore
No memorial was built for the men who had survived by selling their souls. The thousands who had disappeared over the years, stained as criminals, who emerged back into the light as neighborhood pariahs for nothing more than the desire to claim an island as their own. No memorial for the men more complicated than martyrs – or for the families who'd had to relearn the hardships of the everyday.
~ Shawna Yang Ryan
All art at some time and in some manner becomes mass entertainment, and if it does not it dies and is forgotten.
~ Raymond Chandler
Time crumbles things everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
~ Aristotle
Once upon a time, there was a story. But no one to tell it.
~ A.D.Y. Howle
The day history will die and lose its essence with time, memories will not only die, but they shall also surely be forgotten with time!
~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Some memories made in time will last ages tossed aside.
~ Adhish Mazumder