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Quotes About Forgotten

they judge my affection by my memory and turn a natural defect into a deliberate one. 'We begged him to do this,' they say, 'and he has forgotten.' 'He has forgotten his promise.' 'He has forgotten his friends.' 'He never remembered – even for my sake – to say this, to do that or not to mention something else.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Perhaps that's just why you loved me,' I thought. 'Joys are forgotten, but sorrows never.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
The assassination of Allende quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Bohemia, the bloody massacre in Bangladesh caused Allende to be forgotten, the din of war in the Sinai Desert drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the massacres in Cambodia caused the Sinai to be forgotten, and so on, and on and on, until everyone has completely forgotten everything.
~ Milan Kundera
Oh, all that was so far away, almost forgotten. But during her mother's five-day stay in Paris, that feeling of inferiority, of weakness, of dependency came over her again.
~ Milan Kundera
Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten.
~ Milan Kundera
Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.
~ Milan Kundera
La bellezza è un mondo tradito. La possiamo incontrare solo quando i persecutori l'hanno dimenticata per errore da qualche parte.
~ Milan Kundera
Desde entonces sabía que la belleza es un mundo traicionado. Sólo podemos encontrarla cuando sus perseguidores la han dejado olvidada por error en algún sitio.
~ Milan Kundera
Love is the answer to a question that I have forgotten
~ Regina Spektor
If we look closely at this earth, where God seems so utterly forgotten, we shall find that it is He, after all, who commands the most fidelity and the most love.
~ Sophie Swetchine
Nobody's in love with me. I'm so sorry.
~ Walter Pfeiffer
There is no creature loves me; And if I die, no soul will pity me.
~ William Shakespeare
Love is the only rule in self-discovery. If you've forgotten that rule, you've forgotten everything. It's not what you can get; it's what you can give.
~ Frederick Lenz
This kiss was hello.It was I've missed you, I've craved you, I've never forgotten you. It was love.
~ E. S. Carter
He had evidently forgotten all about the dark stranger
~ Bram Stoker
enterrât les suicidés
~ Bram Stoker
What was one more skeleton in an already crowded closet?
~ Brenda Novak
I've forgotten who I had lunch with earlier, and even more important, where.
~ Bret Easton Ellis
So if God is forgotten, we want to join God in being forgotten. So if God is rejected and opposed and misunderstood and misrepresented, we want to suffer each indignity and sorrow with God.
~ Brian D. McLaren
What we do not wish to remember we sometimes hide. That which we hide long enough is sometimes forgotten altogether, even if it never forgets itself.
~ Bruce Coville
Dois homens chegaram a um buraco no céu. Um pediu ao outro ajuda para se erguer até a abertura... Mas era tão bonito no céu que o homem que espiou pela beirada esqueceu tudo, esqueceu o companheiro a quem tinha prometido ajudar a subir e simplesmente saiu correndo para entrar em todo o esplendor celeste. De um poema em prosa esquimó iglulik, do início do século XX, recitado por Inugpasugjuk a Knud Rasmussen, o explorador ártico da Groenlândia
~ Carl Sagan
I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many times as you make me over again.
~ Carl Sandburg
Los muertos se olvidan. Lo cual no quiere decir que no se lloren sincera y hondamente durante algún tiempo
~ Teresa de la Parra
that the wars of the past were slowly being forgotten. Shea believed that one could turn his back on the past and build a new world with the future, never understanding that the future was inextricably tied to the past, an interwoven tapestry of events and ideas that would never be entirely severed.
~ Terry Brooks