Quotes About Forgetfulness

My quest for cosmic understanding is a book I have picked up and put down many times, always forgetting to insert a bookmark.

The issues Miss Quested had raised were so much more important than she was herself that people inevitably forgot her.

Perhaps it was Helen's way of falling in love--a curious way to Margaret, whose agony and whose contempt of Henry were yet imprinted with his image. Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.

Then he changed the subject, and, being without memory, she recovered her temper.

Helen forgot people. They were husks that had enclosed her emotion.

Quando o amor se vai, é lembrado não como amor, mas como algo diferente. Felizes são os ignorantes, pois esquecem por completo, e nunca estão conscientes da insensatez e da lascívia do passado, das longas e inúteis conversações.

I have a terrible memory; I never forget a thing.

Life must go on; I forget just why.

Those who forget the pasta are condemned to reheat it.

And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords.

For then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfast, and shalt not fear: Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away: And thine age shall be clearer than the noonday; thou shalt shine forth, thou shalt be as the morning.

In the day of prosperity there is a forgetfulness of affliction: and in the day of affliction there is no more remembrance of prosperity.

In the days following, he can hardly manage to comb his hair or convince his fingers to button his coat. His mind plays tricks, too: he walks into a room and forgets why he's there. He stares at a superior and forgets what the man just said.

It was as if she had been locked up in a lunatic asylum for so long that she had forgotten she was actually mad.

But I'll tell you what I'm really bad at: I don't concentrate on what I'm doing, so I constantly lose things. I put my purse in the fridge - I'm one of those people.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Don't ever prophesy; for if you prophesy wrong, nobody will forget it; and if you prophesy right, nobody will remember it.

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

I'm not a good storm-outer... because I forget stuff.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.

There have been times when I've shaved twice in the same morning because I've forgotten I've shaved already.