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Quotes About Forgotten

Many have belittled Joseph Smith, but those who have will be forgotten in the remains of Mother Earth, and the odor of their infamy will ever be with them, but honor, majesty, and fidelity to God, exemplified by Joseph Smith and attached to his name, will never die.
~ George Albert Smith
This vanity had increased with years and assumed a very dangerous form. He became indiscreet, and, more disastrous still, he told lies! The very dead—the honored and irreproachable dead—were not even safe in their graves. It was his revenge for unforgotten slights. He who kisses and tells, he who tells even though he has not kissed—what can be said for him, what should be done to him?
~ George du Maurier
She had no remembrance of my name, or the Seraskiers'—I asked, with a beating heart. We had left no trace. Twelve short years had effaced all memory of us!
~ George du Maurier
In the fog of history and myth, the American role in championing and underwriting European integration is frequently forgotten, along with the resistance of the Europeans.
~ George Friedman
Lo que se olvida es como si nunca hubiera sucedido
~ Isabel Allende
The few exiles who returned to the hospital were received with much less fanfare, because it was unwise to attract attention. This was the tacit slogan throughout the country: don't provoke the military, so as to pretend the recent past was buried and in the process of being forgotten.
~ Isabel Allende
Quel che si dimentica è come se non fosse mai successo, e i suoi ricordi reali o illusori erano talmente tanti che per lei fu come vivere due volte.
~ Isabel Allende
It's called 'The 10th Muse.' I'm the 10th daughter of Zeus - the forgotten Muse. By day, I'm a district attorney; by night, I fight crime with my martial-arts skills.
~ Sable
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
~ W. H. Auden
The dust and silence of the upper shelf.
~ Bob Macaulay
What the mass media offer is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
~ W. H. Auden
I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.
~ Bible
Most history is a record of the triumphs, disasters and follies of top people. The black hole in it is the way of life of mute, inglorious men and women who made no nuisance of themselves in the world.
~ Philip Howard
History is littered with leaders and movements, now long vanished and mostly forgotten, who failed to get to the deep truths of how and why their defeat happened.
~ Clive Lewis
Herman Melville is not comforting. Emily Dickinson isn't either. Maybe their work is too hungry for comfort, or just too vivid for comfort. But Henry James is – profoundly so. Because he is tender. The tenderness is there in the structure of the sentence. He knows the way the poor and the dead are forgotten by the living, and he cannot allow that to happen. So he keeps on writing for them, for the dead, as if they were children to be sheltered and loved, never abandoned.
~ Susan Howe
And how they could have forgotten him, as though he was just a character in a book, dismissed once the covers closed?
~ Susan May
It had been years since anybody had wanted to listen again. The world had moved on. They had not.
~ Susan May
The idea of being forgotten is terrifying. I fear not just that I, personally, will be forgotten, but that we are all doomed to being forgotten—that the sum of life is
~ Susan Orlean
Quizá la chica no se acuerde de mí, aunque sé que me engaño: no se te olvida la cara de la persona que era tu última esperanza.
~ Suzanne Collins
No s'oblida, la cara de la persona que era la teva última esperança.
~ Suzanne Collins
I've spent so much time making sure I don't underestimate my opponents that I've forgotten it's just as dangerous to overestimate them as well.
~ Suzanne Collins
You don't forget the face of the person who was your last hope. I wonder if she'll enjoy watching me die".
~ Suzanne Collins
They had to build up a rebel base in the Capitol, get some sort of underground organized in the districts," he says. "Then they needed someone to set the whole thing in motion. They needed you." "They needed Peeta, too, but they seem to have forgotten that,
~ Suzanne Collins
Your time for crossing is over. Now you must help Harlin find the Forgotten and lead them to their destinies. And, of course, extinguish the Shadows where you can.
~ Suzanne Young