Quotes About Forgotten

The funny thing about this existence is that once firmly settled we occupy it with less guard than we know...We feel ever obliged by everyday charges and tasks. They conscript us more and more. We find world enough in a frame. Until at last we take our places at the wheel, or wall, or line, having somewhere forgotten that we can look up.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

I had to spend my entire childhood in the Altensam dungeon like an inmate doing time for no comprehensible reason, for a crime he can't remember committing, a judicial error probably.

Modernity has only lasted less than a dozen generations, while orthodox Christianity has already flourished for more than four hundred generations and shows no sign of fatigue. Yet orthodoxy seems like a newcomer in the university and to the cultural elites, since that is where it has been most forgotten.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. & that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. & that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. & that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no mourners walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flowers be planted on my grave, & that no man remember me. To this I put my name.

that nobody is wished to see my dead body. "& that no murners walk behind me at my funeral. "& that no flours be planted on my grave. "& that no man remember me. "To this I put my name.

Pitiful little bodies underneath the sheets, the unclaimed, the starvelings found huddled in alleys, still hugging themselves in death until rigor passed and then, in the formalin bath of the cadaver tank with their fellows, they let themselves go at last.

Means and Ends The purpose of a fish trap Is to catch fish, And when the fish are caught The trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare Is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught The snare is forgotten. The purpose of words Is to convey ideas. When the ideas are grasped The words are forgotten. Where can I find a man Who has forgotten words? He is the one I would like to talk to.

I am seen by You under the sky, and my offenses have been forgotten by You--but I have not forgotten them.

His five feet three rested angular on the folding chair, a body small, well-wrought and somehow precious, as if it were the forgotten creation of any goldsmith—even Cellini—shrouded now in dark serge and waiting to be put up for auction.

The numbers of people enslaved within Africa itself exceeded the numbers exported. History has largely forgotten them.

I can never be perfectly certain whether Helen was got with child by Leonard Bast or by his fatal forgotten umbrella. All things considered, I think it must have been the umbrella.

And while your new life may look little like the one you left behind, your goal is not to try to create a better version of what you once had, but to expand what's now possible to include fresh new horizons, friends, and interests—and the exploration of forgotten, yet promising possibilities.

THERE IS NOTHING lonelier than a cat who has been loved, at least for a while, and then abandoned on the side of the road.

Atem: ...The soul of the lost king of ancient Egypt, trapped in the Millennium Puzzle for thousands of years! That is who I am. Heh heh...after all this time, it's no wonder I've forgotten everything!

A line from a book he'd read in highschool popped into his mind: The nameless are easier to bury.

True justice is dispensed in alleys.

I have forgotten my mask, and my face was int it.

One drop of poison will kill her strongest foe...and the last remnant of goodness that burns in her heart. For she had forgotten a simple truth. Character meant more than beauty, always.

The faint odour of rotting cheese suggested that sandwiches had been lost in the trackless wastes of paper and never found again.

Because right now, I'm worse than dead. I'm forgotten.

Somehow they fail to see that for someone aggravated by depression, self-help will be useless, indeed, it is precisely the self that needs to be forgotten.