Quotes About Forgetfulness

The heavy mantle of collective forgetfulness seemed to descend around us the day the weapons went quiet. In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.

In this manner, secretly, ....let the years go by, silencing their hearts and souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and became strangers...

Un anno è molto per i temi che corrono. In questi giorni la gente dimentica in fretta. E' come un virus, ma aiuta a sopravvivere.

I never remember to do that stuff on my own." "I figured. I'm also updating your virus software and installing some other free programs to keep this thing running well.

Prejudice is a funny thing," Levi said, crossing his arms and leaning against the wall. "Kind of like a grudge. After you've had it for a while, you tend to forget what made you feel that way in the first place.

Oh, yes, how remiss of me. I forgot that you can have an entire herd of wives.

When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I'd forgotten until I remember them.

It's like you know a lyric for a song by heart and suddenly you forget the words.

When it comes to my memory there are three categories; things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I'd forgot I'd forgotten until I remember them.

When it comes to my memory there are three categories: things I want to forget, things I can't forget, and things I forgot I'd forgotten until I remember them.

He loved his mother. He just had a hard time remembering that some days.

It's just comical how short-term people's memories are.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

My memory's bad!

My memory's pretty much gone.

I have a terrible memory.

I have lost my short-term memory - I'm just getting blonder by the day.

As an actor, one of my greatest fears is losing my memory.

I can't remember what Michael Praed looks like. I'm too young!

We can practice watering the seeds in us that we want to grow and transform. Our mind is like a garden in which there are all kinds of seeds: seeds of joy, peace, mindfulness, understanding, and love, but also seeds of craving, anger, fear, hate, and forgetfulness.

And there is escaping things the knowledge of which makes one unhappy. If truth is what we know and are aware of, in the most engrossing fiction we escape truth. Whatever else it is, drama is forgetfulness. We can forget and forget that we are forgetting. It is temporary mind control. If memories are pain, fiction is anesthesia.

Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.