Quotes About Forgetfulness

Je me souviens d'avoir pensé que ce n'était pas le genre dont j'aurais pu être enceinte. « C'est un très gentil garçon, n'est-ce pas ? » Le docteur souriait et il a paru heureux de mon approbation. Il avait oublié pourquoi j'étais là. Quand il m'a raccompagnée à la porte, il paraissait soulagé. Il ne m'a pas dit de revenir.

Il m'arrivait d'oublier que j'était enceinte de deux mois. C'est sans doute à cause de cet effacement de l'avenir, par lequel l'esprit endort lui-même l'angoisse de l'échéance, qu'il sait pourtant inévitable, que des filles laissaient passer les semaines, pus les mois, jusqu'au terme.

The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

Isn't it delightful to forget how old we are?

One would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,' agreed Charlotte. 'But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,' I agreed quickly.

Al final, siempre gana el olvido.

No hay mayor fatuidad que creerse inmortal en la memoria frágil de los hombres. Gloria al olvido, que siempre triunfa.

A paz que é dos que não conhecem e esquecem sem querer.

For days we slept wakefully, content to be nothing, to have no desires or hopes, to have forgotten the color of love or the taste of hatred.

La inmensidad vacía de las cosas, el gran olvido que hay en el cielo y la tierra.

Dormimos ali acordados dias, contentes de não ser nada, de não ter desejos nem esperanças, de nos termos esquecido da cor dos amores e do sabor dos ódios.

Meu coração a bater Parece estar-me a lembrar Que, se um dia te esquecer, Será por ele parar.

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

We all go to our grave thinking that we will never be forgotten, and we are forgotten ten minutes later.

Short term memory is not good.

I'm like a goldfish. My memory is terrible.

I think 90% of my ideas evaporate because I have a terrible memory and because I seem to be committed to not scribble anything down. As soon as I write it down, my mind rejects it.

Human memory is short and terribly fickle.

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

Being a new mum at whatever age is testing and I think I've forgotten what it feels like.

me dije que quizás la guerra principal en el mundo se libraba entre la amnesia y la memoria

I'd love her until the end of time, he thought. An hour later he'd already forgotten the matter completely.

Opium and heroin had not caused our poverty and hopelessness. Rather, poverty and hopelessness had brought about an unquenchable desire to forget. After