Quotes About Forgetfulness

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

Emily and I have now reached the time in life when not only do we lie about our ages, we forget what we've said they are.

How simple life becomes when things like mirrors are forgotten.

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

despite catastrophes that defy the imagination, daily life goes on, forgetfulness seems to conquer memory, the world keeps mysteriously renewing itself.

You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can't accomplish a thing.

Having ADD makes life paradoxical. You can superfocus sometimes, but also space out when you least mean to. You can radiate confidence and also feel as insecure as a cat in a kennel. You can perform at the highest level, feeling incompetent as you do so. You can be loved by many, but feel as if no one really likes you. You can absolutely, totally, intend to do something, then forget to do it. You can have the greatest ideas in the world, but feel as if you can't accomplish a thing.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.

También el general, incapaz de dibujar sus días, vivía fuera del tiempo, sin pasado y sin futuro y, para olvidar su presente engañoso

I can't find my car keys in the morning. Trying to get out of my house is a nightmare. 'Where's my wallet? Where are my keys? I have to go find a missing person.'

The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness.

I cannot remember any of the things that were on my list of things to do. I will just have to sit here and do nothing," said Toad.

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

People will forget me pretty quick.

I am blessed that I quickly forget things.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Being able to wear contacts, you don't have to worry about your glasses falling off or how you look during your beam routine. As soon as they're in, literally two minutes later, you forget that they're on.

Blessed are the forgetful; for they get over their stupidities, too.

I have forgotten my umbrella.

A. Was I ill? Have I got well? Who was my doctor? Can you tell? Oh, my memory is rotten! B. Only now you're truly well. Those are well who have forgotten.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgets himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his going under.

The most basic form of human stupidity is forgetting what we are trying to accomplish.