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Quotes About Forgotten

These days I seem to think a lot About the things that I forgot to do For you And all the times I had the chance to.
~ Unknown
that fell through the cracks.
~ Unknown
I find it devastatingly sad that a woman could disappear to this extent, leaving no trace other than a daughter who barely remembers her.
~ Unknown
The maid found a handkerchief of hers, under the bed in which she had died. A ring that had been missing turned up in his own writing desk. A tradesman arrived with fabric she had ordered three weeks ago. Each day, some further evidence of a task half finished, a scheme incomplete. He found a novel, with her place marked. And this is it.
~ Hilary Mantel
Tom Truth says, 'I do not know if I wrote this verse.' 'You have forgot it,' he says. 'As would any man of sense. Yet in the fifth stanza you write, Pardon me, your man, Tom Truth. Which you rhyme, unfortunately, with growth.' Christophe sniggers. 'Even I know better, and I am French.
~ Hilary Mantel
He thinks, I remembered you, Thomas More, but you didn't remember me. You never even saw me coming.
~ Hilary Mantel
For so long, I've only had one-sided feelings for other people. I've completely forgotten how good it feels to be loved.
~ Unknown
Mänsklighetens minne är bristfälligt och orättvist, och våra äldsta och största välgörare ha vi glömt.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
That was seven years ago. The doctors told her father the memory would fade, like the big messy scar on her arm, but neither ever did.
~ Holly Black
If there is nothing but this;" Roiben said. "If we are to be shadows, changeless and forgotten, we will have to dine on these memories for the rest of our days. Don't you want a few more moments to chew over?
~ Holly Black
Since you're mortal, Jude, I cannot hold you to your promises. But you can hold me to mine: I guarantee you safe passage. Come back to Elfhame with me, and I will give you the means to end your exile.' 'The means to end it?' I ask. If he thinks I don't know better than to agree to that, he's forgotten everything worth knowing about me. 'Come back to Elfhame, tell me what you would tell me, and your exile will end,' he says. 'I promise.
~ Holly Black
People remember the Enemy of Death," said Alma. "But they forget the man who made him who he was.
~ Holly Black
The secret of great fortunes with no apparent source is a forgotten crime.
~ Honore de Balzac
Le secret des grandes fortunes sans cause apparente est un crime oublié, parce qu'il a été proprement fait.
~ Honore de Balzac
and the memory had vanished, the way old clothes vanished and you forgot they had ever existed until an old photo reminded you: I loved that T-shirt.
~ Liane Moriarty
Suicide is the dumbest possible way of getting revenge. Why is that? Because the people you want to strike back at are the very same folks who won't even remember you a week after you're gone, while the people you want to spare most -- the people who love you -- are the ones who will have to live with the pain of your suicide for the rest of their lives.
~ Unknown
Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.
~ Linda Hogan
Like legend and myth, magic fades when it is unused.
~ Unknown
She hasn't seen Hanna smile for so long she'd forgotten what it looked like.
~ Lisa Jewell
The novel is a highly corrupt medium, after all - in the end the vast majority of them simply aren't that great, and are destined to be forgotten.
~ Lev Grossman
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
~ David Ogden Stiers
existence is without memory; of the vanished it retains nothing—not even a memory.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
In terms of the collective memory of the American people, the Korean War is not just forgotten. It was not remembered in the first place…." —HISTORIAN ALLAN MILLETT
~ Jeff Shaara
Dust balls lined the steps. A half-eaten sandwich sat atop the landing where someone had felt too sad to finish it.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides