Quotes About Forgetfulness

I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week, but lately I forget three things a week.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

Nightly awaits that sweet address Principality of Sleep Happy Land of Forgetfullness

Nista zivo covjek ne moze izgubiti, niti moze covjek biti trajno nesrecan, dok Bog daje da se dusa lijeci zaboravom, a zemlja obnavlja proljecem

Ali nevolje ne traju vje?no (i to im je zajedni?ko sa radostima) nego prolaze ili se bar smjenjuju i gube u zaboravu.

Lamentablemente, no. No recuerdo nada, ni el pasado ni el futuro. Comparado contigo, David, soy un tipo muy obtuso, nada excepcional; de hecho, todo lo opuesto de excepcional. Vivo en el presente, como un buey.

You know," I said, "I think it doesn't make any difference to him anyway. He's just satisfied to wander around and forget things.

One night my old man left the day's receipts settin on top of the safe, plumb forgot. What happened—a thief came in the night, acetylene torch and all, broke open the safe, riffled up the papers, kicked over a few chairs, and left. And that thousand dollars was settin right there on top of the safe, what do you know about that?

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame.

And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

My teammates will tell you I find it hard to remember what happened two weeks earlier, let alone what happened a decade and a half back.

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

How can I pretend that nothing happened?

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. ("The past was her best friend" )

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

Wisdom remembers. Happiness forgets.

The first sign of senility is loss of memory. I forget the other two.

All my life, I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

Losing a chunk of your memory is a tricky thing, a deep-sea quake triggering shifts and upheavals too far distant from the epicenter to be easily predictable.

his memory was banjaxed,

By fixing every detail of an insult in indelible video, it could prevent the softening that's needed for forgiveness to begin. I thought back to what Erica Meyers said about Remem's inability to hurt solid marriages. Implicit in that assertion was a claim about what qualified as a solid marriage. If someone's marriage was built on—as ironic as it might sound—a cornerstone of forgetfulness, what right did Whetstone have to shatter that?

I've got a short memory span.