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Quotes About Forgetfulness

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games.
~ Jim McMahon
I have a very bad memory. So I would like a chat bot to just remind me of everything I forget. I spend my entire life on Google trying to remember stuff.
~ Adwoa Aboah
If I print something out, I just spend all my time trying to find where I've put it down.
~ Jennifer Ehle
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.
~ Alice Walker
Any married man should forget his mistakes - no use two people remembering the same thing.
~ Duane Dewel
There are three signs of senility. The first sign is that a man forgets his theorems. The second sign is that he forgets to zip up. The third sign is that he forgets to zip down.
~ Paul Erdos
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
~ Ivo Andric
The mass of men worry themselves into nameless graves while here and there a great unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Man is a messenger who forgot the message.
~ Abraham Joshua Heschel
That's when the realization comes. It swims up out of her subconscious in the same way that a nightmare does. Or when you leave the house and remember half an hour later that you left a teakettle going on the stove. It's a cold clammy reality that she can't do a damn thing about.
~ Neal Stephenson
Seems the World goes batshit crazy, every few decades. Just long enough to forget the last time the World went batshit crazy.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
Kazuo Ishiguro's novel The Buried Giant.
~ Niall Ferguson
workin' day and night, slavin' so hard you barely have time to catch your breath. People do that for three reasons. Eithet they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I can't remember names and things.
~ Prince Philip
When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
~ Imogen Cunningham
I wish I could remember people's names. I'm supposed to remember so many.
~ Phil Lord
I have a terrible memory. I never remember names or faces. It's incredibly embarrassing.
~ Ben Fogle
I'm sorry. I never think to check my messages and I don't have a clue where that cell phone is.' She looked around as if she might find it in the flower bed.
~ Christine Feehan
Not until she stood at her sink, splashing cold water on her face, did she remember her little hippo. What the hell was that about? When did her unconscious get so fucking whimsical? And what fine truth was he going to tell her?
~ Christopher Bram
La gente ha la fastidiosa abitudine di ricordarsi le cose che non dovrebbe
~ Christopher Paolini
As soon as they died, the souls of the dead were drawn by Myrkul's magic to one of the thousands of places like this, the Fountain of Nepenthe—a pool or well filled with the black Waters of Forgetfulness. In normal times, Myrkul's attraction was so strong that a soul spectre would immediately leap into dark waters, then emerge on the plain on the other side.
~ Troy Denning
UnutuÅŸun tekniÄŸi yoktur, hâlâ rastgele, doÄŸal süreçlere baÄŸl?y?z, beyinsel lezyonlar, unutkanl?k ya da ne bileyim, yolculuk, alkol, uykuya kaç??, can?na k?yma gibi doÄŸaçlamalara.
~ Umberto Eco
Il n'existe pas de technique de l'oubli, nous en sommes encore aux processus naturels de hasard – lésions cérébrales, amnésie ou l'improvisation manuelle, que sais-je, un voyage, l'alcool, la cure de sommeil, le suicide.
~ Umberto Eco