Quotes About Forgetfulness

Leí una vez que la memoria de los peces de colores solo duran cinco segundos. Les envidio. Mis recuerdos con Alex, mi amor por él, me durarán toda la vida.

I read that goldfish have a memory of five seconds. I envy them. My memory of Alex, my love for him, will last my lifetime.

The vanity of teaching doth oft tempt a man to forget that he is a blockhead.

The inequity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

The iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity.

To forget is ordinary. Even people in mourning, distracted by some little happiness, forget the dead.

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

I'm so glad Courtney Love is here; I left my crack in my other purse.

JOURNAL INTIME: Wenn ich einmal darin lese, zum Beispiel weil ich ein Datum brauche für unser Gespräch, so bin ich bestürzt: daß ich vor zwei oder fünf Jahren genu zu derselben Einsicht gekommen bin – nur habe ich sie dann wieder vergessen, weil es mir nicht gelungen ist, nach meiner Einsicht zu leben; ich habe das Gegenteil gelebt mit zäher Energie.

I will forgive them for the wicked things they did, and I will not remember their sins anymore." Hebrews 8:12

How cruel memory is, forgetful memory that drops whole lives out without a qualm!

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

I have a very hard time getting to rage. I always assume that maybe I've done something wrong and then forgotten about it.

I don't lose time playing verbal games, trying to remember what I forgot. "I don't remember your name," says one octogenarian to another. "Tell me what it is." The second one pauses: "How soon do you have to know?" he asks.

If a man can't remember the laws," Ragnar said, "then he's got too many of them.

Verführung, die nicht Busen und Po und Bein ist, sondern die Einladung, im Inneren des Körpers die Welt zu vergessen.

It is in the moments when the mind is most active and the fewest things are forgotten that the most intense joys are experienced. This indeed is one of the best touchstones of happiness. The happiness that requires intoxication of no matter what sort is a spurious and unsatisfying kind. The happiness that is genuinely satisfying is accompanied by the fullest exercise of our faculties, and the fullest realization of the world in which we live.

Raymond, through some curious alchemy of his own, had come really to think a divorce was something you could win, as opposed to a situation in which the wounded attempt to contain loss. She once said to her friend Annie, "It's like fighting over who gets the litterbox after the cat is dead. Raymond has forgotten we ever had a cat; he actually wants the litterbox. Full." She said Annie had laughed and then Martha cried

Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. They soon forgot His works and would not wait for His counsel. Psalm 106:12–13

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

In Heaven you forget everything. In Hell they make you remember.

Heartlessness and amnesia seem to go together.