Quotes About Forgetfulness

So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I'm dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are knocking people over...

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before.

Last week I forgot how to ride a bicycle.

Una conciencia tranquila es generalmente el signo de una mala memoria

Une conscience tranquille est généralement le signe d'une mauvaise mémoire

I could imagine that should a weak-willed traveller end up in Yhkey, they would quickly become so disoriented, they might forget where they were going and where they had come from. They might just become part of the madness, singing and dancing until they died.

It could happen. People could be fooled. Memory is short.

808. Do not punish forgetfulness. ADHD children cannot hold rules, routines, and tasks in their minds. They forget everyday rules and tasks, even though they have been doing them for months or years. Every day is a new day in their minds, and they do not know what to do unless you tell them.

When we were in the Dark Ages, it was a question of humanity somehow managing to forget about itself. We put God in the centre of society, and people forgot about their own nature and desires. There was a huge deal of repression.

I somehow can't remember numbers, names, and faces. I forget very easily.

I hate tears, it makes it easy to forget someone.

She was invisible. Forgettable. Forgotten.

She told me that the brain is built to forget things as we continue to live, that memories are meant to fade and disintegrate, that skin, so protective in the beginning because it has to be to protect our organs, saga eventually - because the organs aren't so hot anymore either - and sharp edges become blunt, that the pain of letting go of grief is just as panful or even more painful than the grief itself.

His mind had forgotten the pathway to his voice.

A mother's happiness; something you recognize and then forget; it didn't seem to matter much, though it spread through our bodies.

He wondered what his sorrow was and could not remember.

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

He refused to think about her, or when he did, he quickly thought of something else to drive her image from his mind. After a while he forgot what she looked like, except in dreams.

Keeping poor records and dates on calls. Prospects and established customers soon weary of the salesperson who habitually "forgets" to call on specified days.

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war, Daniel. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind. p. 428

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never would be.

Hay épocas en que es más honorable morir en el olvido que vivir en la gloria.