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Quotes About Forgotten

At the same time, the fact that the girls were slowly sinking hadn't completely penetrated our minds, and on some mornings we awoke to a world still unruptured: we stretched, we got out of bed, and only after rubbing our eyes at the window did we remember the rotting house across the street, and the mossblackened windows hiding the girls from our sight. The truth was this: we were beginning to forget the Lisbon girls, and we could remember nothing else.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
Mary had disrupted nearly every relationship in her life. Would she now come between her sisters, setting one against another, their long time amity forgotten?
~ Jennifer Chiaverini
Her gloom and loneliness forgotten as she found peace in the strength and stillness of her movement up the mixed terrain of the North Face.
~ Unknown
I have simply forgotten how to be loved. Laura
~ Jennifer Lynch
Was alles mag da wohl noch im Dunkel seines Gedächtnisses warten, aber nie wieder aus der Abstellkammer hervorgeholt werden, bevor der Laden irgendwann endgültig zugemacht wird?
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
She dreamed a thousand dreams of those sunlit regions and was consumed with longing for this other and richer self, forgetting—what is so easily forgotten—that even the fairest dreams and the deepest longings do not add an inch to the stature of the human soul.
~ Jens Peter Jacobsen
She was unprepared for the landscape to be so altered. For there to be no trace of that evening, forty autumns ago.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
I thought I'd forget you, but I guess I forgot to.
~ Unknown
Sleep softly… eagle forgotten… under the stone.
~ Vachel Lindsay
What did you forget I existed?
~ Unknown
The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
~ Walter Winchell
The best memories are those which we have forgotten.
~ Alfred Capus
Do You know what ghosts are, Stuey? I'll tell you. They're secrets haunting the memories of the living. So long as we carry their secrets, they refuse to leave. They wait." "Wait for what?" "To be forgotten. My father has been gone for sixty years, but" — he tapped the side of his head — "he's still here. He never left.
~ Pete Hautman
this post-trial assessment by Lord Buckmaster: The licence was accordingly refused but the refusal was not due to an adverse judgement of the play. It may be hoped that the trial of the criminal proceedings is now forgotten and the only question is on what grounds found in the play itself can it be regarded as unfit for performance.
~ Philip Hoare
In addition, no one today remembered why the war had come about or who, if anyone, had won.
~ Philip K. Dick
Además, nadie recordaba hoy por qué había estallado la guerrra, ni quién- Si alguien- había ganado.
~ Philip K. Dick
So many things I had thought forgotten Return to my mind with stranger pain: Like letters that arrive addressed to someone Who left the house so many years ago. from "Why Did I Dream of You Last Night?
~ Philip Larkin
You scribes and Pharisees, if you're listening – be damned to you. You take endless scruples over the tiniest matters of the law, while you let the great things like justice and mercy and faith go unnoticed and forgotten. You strain the gnats out of your wine, but you ignore the camel standing in it.
~ Philip Pullman
Lives had been spent here—people had loved one another and eaten and drunk and laughed and betrayed and been afraid of death—and not a single fragment of that remained. White stones, black shadows.
~ Philip Pullman
If there are other rules, I have forgotten them, and if I've forgotten them it is because they don't matter.
~ Philip Pullman
I have told you all the rules I know. If there are rules I have forgotten to mention then they do not matter.
~ Philip Pullman
That word again. Happy. It's a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. It's a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I don't want you to think I forgot.
~ David Levithan
How sad it must be for you to be nothing more than a hollow statue, to have your tomb preserved and your story forgotten.
~ David Levithan