Quotes About Forgetfulness

El peñasco árido, donde siempre elevo sus cometas, lo esperaba ansiosamente cada año, hasta que Martín olvidó volver.

Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness.

The noises from outside all merge into one another, become a dream which disappears from the waking memory...he sees the woods and stars behind him, and so he moves on, an ordinary soldier, with his big boots and his webbing and his pack, making his tiny way under the sky's great vault along the road that lies before him; a soldier who forgets things quickly and who isn't even depressed much any more, but who just goes onwards under the great night sky.

He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later.

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday, let alone 10 years ago.

Um, am I the only person who is walking around without underwear on today? I know I can't be. This isn't the first time this has happened to me, and I know if it's happened to me more than once, it's happened to someone else at least one time. I'm three quarters short of clean draws.

Een draak draagt de Prinses in zijn armen en jij vergéét dat? - Marcia, tegen Septimus

you remember what is lost, and you forget what's right in front of you.

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

I always find it extremely hard to remember the act of beginning. I almost deliberately forget it.

Sometimes I'm like Dory from 'Finding Nemo.' I can't remember facts.

I look for dancers who have all the technique in the world. But they must be dancers who are open-minded, who are willing to forget that they know anything. They also have to be gorgeous; they must have a clear image of themselves and strong personalities.

When you're acting, it's all about you and the person in front of you, and I think in life we forget to apply the same technique, and we get caught up in the panic of what we're trying to do - how overwhelmingly daunting the task of trying to become an actor is.

I have never been able to remember the number of my driver's license, and there have been times when I couldn't even remember my own telephone number, but when I hear a song, sometimes only once, I never forget the melody or the lyric.

When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.

Yet again the fiends came after the years of forgetfulness had gone by–for man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

stopped to look for it, but the battle to get through the days made it easy to forget that this totally cost-free luxury existed.

Forget, forget nothing, don't forget the sweetness, don't forget the severity. If indifference and unkindness take hold of your being, stir your memory and think of all the beautiful, all the burdensome things. Remember there is life and there is death, remember there are moments of bliss and there are graves. Do not be forgetful, but instead remember this.

The mind is a strange creature in this regard: the things you want it to remember it forgets, but all those things you want it to forget, it remembers

As Oscar Wilde once said, "To lose one cell phone may be regarded as a misfortune; to go through seventy looks like carelessness.

Think not less of me in my omniscience, said Brahma, stifling a yawn with his scepter, if I admit to having, for the moment, forgotten these figures.