Quotes About Forgetfulness

Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.

La vida no transcurre bien sin grandes olvidos. Pero la vida necesita metas, retos, planes, objetivos. Quien no sabe lo que quiere no puede ser feliz. La felicidad es un resultado y ser feliz significa haber desarrollado al máximo las posibilidades personales y ser capaz de conseguir superar el sufrimiento.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

find em, fool em, fuck em, forget em

No," I said, "I don't remember." But my best guess is, so far at least, that I only have Sometimer's, not Alzheimer's.

Only then did she realize that she had completely forgotten to meet Crowfeather at twilight.

it. Oh, crap. He'd forgotten all about Ellen, but

Bendito olvido, que es la moneda falsa del perdón, y corre de mano en mano produciendo admirables efectos!

Phoebe lay rigid, staring into the darkness. It was often like this; she would go to sleep and then after an hour or two would start awake from a nightmare not a single detail of which had stayed with her.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

I work, and I'm a full-time mom, and it's hard for me to sit down and relax because it's like, 'Crap, there's something I'm forgetting.'

One forgets so quickly one's own youth…

somewhere years ago I had forgotten how to be involved in anything. Somehow somewhere I had lost completely the capacity to be concerned.

It was so easy to forget the man was dying. Danny wondered if Shields forgot it himself sometimes. For the first second or two after he woke up in the morn ings, maybe. Danny had a paraplegic friend who'd ex perienced that. He said there was nothing worse than the crushing weight of remembering that he was para lyzed and couldn't get out of bed.

After a sound drubbing followed by half a day's fasting, I felt more like laughing than like crying; and, in half a while, all was forgotten and my wickedness began afresh and worse than ever.

I don't give a toss about being remembered after my death.

According to my best recollection, I don't remember.

Er wuenschte sich eine Falltuer herbei, durch die er nach unten stuerzen duerfte - fort von der unwirklichen Realitaet in ein schwarzes Loch des Vergessens. Doch so etwas geschah nur in Traeumen.

It well becomes a man who is no longer young to forget that he ever was.

Un somn cosmic care îl ap?ra de moarte, îl situa în afara oric?rei scurgeri de timp... O uitare puternica printr-o retragere a timpului, undeva în golul spa?iului.

Un somn cosmic care îl ap?ra de moarte, îl situa în afara oric?rei scurgeri de timp... O uitare puternica printr-o retragere a timpului, undeva în golul spa?iului... Un neant magic fara limite. O stare de inconstienta intretaiata de treziri comatoas?, nicioadata destul de lungi ca spiritul sa se poat? elibera de somnolenta limburilor.

The land preserves clues for a long time, but the sea has a short memory.

And what did I think when I was small and why did I forget? And what else will I forget when I grow older? And if you forget is it as if it never happened? Will none of the things you saw or thought or dreamed matter?

I'm not like that smart. I like, forget stuff all the time.