Quotes About Forgetfulness

If one were at every moment conscious of what one knew - if, for example, the sentiment of foundationlessness were both continual and intense - one would kill oneself or allow oneself to slip into imbecility. One exists thanks to the moments when one forgets certain truths.

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

Me olvidé por un momento de que esa tristeza duraría mientras estuviese viva, de que nunca pasaría, y me dispuse a salir con él.

Every memory is real, but not all are based on fact. Time, forgetfulness, emotional need—any of these things can chip away at memory.

I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, "Now, where did I put that lizard?

Ah, the joy of loving a sleeping thing! All true lovers know that wonder. Sleep is a great magician. His spells are woven in the darkness between the worlds; His philtres are made of herbs that grow by the great river of forgetfulness which flows by the throne of the All-knowing.

You forget the things you want to remember and remember the things you want to forget.

You: Why did you pick my first name? Your dad: I don't remember. You: I see. Can you give me an example of something else you can't remember? Your dad: Uh . . . what? You: Did you like the sound of my name? Your dad: Yes. Your name rhymes with platypus, and that has always been one of our favorite animals.

It is easier to die than to remember.

I always bump into people that Ive met. Not great friends, but if I bump into somebody Ive known and I wont recognise them. It can be embarrassing at times.

A lot of people will refer to comics by number to me, and I'll realize they're expecting me to remember all the comics by number. And I can't even remember what I ate this morning, let alone which comic was #473!

I am also lucky that I can forget about any character I do within 24 hours. I can laugh heartily within minutes of doing a crying scene.

to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again: and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself.

it was curious that he seemed not merely to have lost the power of expressing himself, but even forgotten what it was that he had originally intended to say.

The war had jerked me out of the old life I'd known, but in the queer period that came afterwards I forgot it almost completely.

Trap. Horrible trap. At one's birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of this body. Bad enough. Then we bring a baby here. The terms of the trap are compounded. That baby also must depart. All pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge. But hopeful dear us, we forget. Lord, what is this?

But hopeful dear us, we forget.

Trap. Horrible trap. At one's birth it is sprung. Some last day must arrive. When you will need to get out of this body. Bad enough. Then we bring a baby here. The terms of the trap are compounded. That baby also must depart. All pleasures should be tainted by that knowledge. But hopeful dear us, we forget.

She could forget a face, an appointment or a good resolution but her memory for dogs was always phenomenal.

Every time people struggle, they survive, they do better, and then they forget, and they end up back where they started from.

I cannot sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go.

I lose things. I am preoccupied. I am misty. Eyeglasses? I go through eyeglasses like tissue.

I have a hard time recalling the titles of books.

To be honest, I don't remember what happened in '95, '96 and '97. It was hard years. My memory is deleting.