Quotes About Forgetfulness

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replay in sports. They've already forgotten what's happened.

In fetid darkness still to live and run-- And all for nothing it had ever done Except forget to go in fear perhaps. No one would know except for ancient maps That such a brook ran water.

For this is the last best gift that the kindly demi-god is careful to bestow on those to whom he has revealed himself in their helping: the gift of forgetfulness. Lest the awful remembrance should remain and grow, and overshadow mirth and pleasure, and the great haunting memory should spoil all the after-lives of little animals helped out of difficulties, in order that they should be happy and lighthearted as before.

Sembrava sempre barcollare in una sorta di stordimento, come se avesse perso qualcosa e non riuscisse a ricordare cosa né dove cercare.

it looked like the great heat wave would be like mass shootings in the United States— mourned by all, deplored by all, and then immediately forgotten or superseded by the next one, until they came in a daily drumbeat and became the new normal.

Life teaches me a hundred things every day, and I forget ninety-nine of them, sometimes all hundred of them.

How quickly people can forget you, until they want something from u" and when they are done with you, you are not even a stranger but an invisible person who doesn't even exist.

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

It was clear that he didn't remember me from one day to the next. The note clipped to his sleeve simply informed him that it was not our first meeting, but it could not bring back the memory of the time we had spent together.

as human beings, no matter how many tears we have to shed in order to learn a lesson, the moment the tears are dry, we forget. That's the type of beings we are.

we all know that the brain's retrieval system is amazingly efficient, except when you are trying to remember where you put your car keys.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

Whatever is eating her brain consumes only the fresher memories, the unripe moments

uno no sabe que tiene alzheimer cuando olvida dónde puso las llaves del coche, sino cuando olvida para qué son.

When his brain died, all of the memories held in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporate in a flood of chemical reactions.

The problem is that nowadays, with so much information flying around, it is almost impossible to remember anything you saw just a week ago, never mind three years ago!

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

I knew it for an hour on the autobahn, under a gray Rhenish sky, and forgot it in your arms.

your brain resembles the bottom of your purse: lost

Something weird happens to your brain. This brain has served you well for so long, but it starts punking you. You can't remember directions, you forget why you walked into a room, and for the life of you, you can't recall your third kid's name (

So why make a huge drama out of it if you're only going to forget all about it one day?

I don't think my memory of that night is ever coming back." "Do you want me to hit you on the head with a coconut? It works on Gilligan's Island.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.

I'm always happy," Sasha said. "Sometimes I just forget.