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Quotes About Forgetfulness

Since I've retired, I sometimes not only don't know what day it is, or what month it is, I have trouble remembering what year it is. I can remember when I was six years old exactly what was happening, and I can't remember what happened yesterday.
~ Bob Barker
On the endive show, she offered a Yogi Berra-style malaprop: "Now don't wash endive-that is, unless it's dirty." And during an episode of forgetfulness: "I did not have my glasses on when I was thinking." Once, she sorted through a jungle of seaweed in search of a twenty-pound lobster lurking in its folds; another time, she lifted the veil over a platter hunting for the "big, bad artichoke" lying furtively underneath.
~ Bob Spitz
Memory deficiency got so bad with me, I forgot to repeat a piece of gossip I swore on my Grandmother's Grave never to divulge.
~ bombeck erma iii
As they say, out with one eye for remembering the past, but if you forget, out with both. And
~ Boris Akunin
İnsanlar bir nedenle birbirine güvenirdi; nedenini unuttum.
~ Harper Lee
The harder you push at an unreliable memory, the less reliable it
~ Harry Bingham
Only when he was working on his second glass did he remember to offer me some of this potable aqua regia.
~ Harry Harrison
It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.
~ Haruki Murakami
Memory is so crazy! It's like we've got these drawers crammed with tons of useless stuff. Meanwhile, all the really important things we just keep forgetting, one after the other.
~ Haruki Murakami
Should Never,Ever have got involved with Men again. Had completely forgotten the nightmare of 'Why hasn't he called
~ Helen Fielding
I have been forgetting things for years - at least since I was in my 30s. I know this because I wrote something about it at the time; I have proof. Of course I can't remember exactly where I wrote about it or when, but I could probably hunt it up if I had to.
~ Nora Ephron
I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!'
~ Rhys Ifans
And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the Fringe. Spend a year spitting your guts out writing a show, and people forget your name as soon as they walk out.
~ James Acaster
The golden moment when I'm not yet awake enough to remember that there are things I would rather forget.
~ Sonya Sones
I've got "Sometimers.' Sometimes I remember and sometimes I forget.
~ Spike Lee
Forgetfulness of the infinite is misery. Forgetfulness of the trivial is ecstasy.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
el momento apasionado que se apaga sin dejar rastro en el humo del olvido.
~ Stefan Zweig
He forgets the books he has read, has no memory for dates and misplaces the momentous events in his life. Like a river, all flows over him, leaving nothing behind: no deep conviction, no solid opinion, nothing fixed, nothing stable.
~ Stefan Zweig
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.
~ Stefan Zweig
I was forever late, in a rush, my foot heavy on the pedal, haunted by something I'd forgotten to do, to pay, to sign. I ate on the run, balanced hot coffee while shifting in traffic, and dreamed of being organized, believing I could be if only I had the right containers.
~ Stephanie Kegan
Sorrow is not in death but in loneliness, and conflict comes when you seek consolation, forgetfullness, explanations, and illusions.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
In reality nobody can grasp anything permanently in life. Absolutely nothing. Somethings may stay in memory for a while but eventually that too fades away.
~ Aditya Ajmera
I guess. I don't remember his name but it
~ Michael Connelly
De tanto esperar, olvidó incluso porque esperaba
~ Michael Ende