Quotes About Forgetfulness

Pero cuando Diotallevi y yo pensamos en construir un ars oblivionalis no pudimos descubrir las reglas del olvido. Es inútil: podemos ir en busca del tiempo perdido siguiendo exiguas huellas en el bosque, como Pulgarcito, pero somos incapaces de extraviar deliberadamente el tiempo reencontrado.

I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.

Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo

Some people see a glass as half empty; some see it as half full. I put the glass in a cupboard and forget it's there.

Today's young people want to know everything about everyone. They think talking about a problem will solve it. I come from a quieter generation. We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Loreda's lost memories. Sometimes

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament .... whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.

I forgot," Isabelle muttered as the rest of them caught up to her. "Faeries have no sense of humor." "Oh, I wouldn't say that," said Jace. "There's a pixie nightclub downtown called Hot Wings. Not," he added, "that I have ever been there.

Mum's mobile was the most immoblie cell phone in the world. It often lived on the top of the bookshelf closest to the front door. It was there so she'd see it before she left the house. The trouble was, Mum was alwayd leaving the house in a mad rush and the mobile stayed put.

He'd laughed? He couldn't remember. Ramsay had probably been riding the morphine express to LaLa land and heard a nurse say something funny, or not funny at all, it wouldn't matter.

People remember what they want to remember and forget what they want to forget.

Human nature. After something works out, we forget the frustration of the steps we took in getting there.

The old forget, the young don't know.

Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress tree; Be the green grass above me With showers and dew drops wet; And if thou wilt, remember, And if thou wilt, forget. I shall not see the shadows, I shall not feel the rain; I shall not hear the nightingale

J'ai poursuivi en vain deux quêtes impossibles- celle de l'amour- jusqu'à la déraison; celle de l'amitié, jusqu'à la désillusion. Tel un papillon fou, mon cœur s'est brûlé cent fois aux flammes de ces sentiments éternels. Au fil de mes voyages, le long des plaines fertiles et des espaces désertiques, j'ai appris l'oubli, j'ai oublié d'apprendre.

Uma obra crítica ou filosófica, que não se mantenha de alguma maneira numa relação essencial com a criação, está condenada a girar no vazio, do mesmo modo que uma obra de arte ou de poesia, que não contenha em si uma exigência crítica, está destinada ao esquecimento.

lo que Pietro se proponía para satisfacción de los tres se me ha olvidado; pero bien sé que a la mañana siguiente en la plaza se vio el joven no muy seguro de a quién había acompañado más por la noche, si a la mujer o al marido.

Here were we, drawn together by mutual rage and the impulse toward cooperation, led off into forgetfulness by the establishment of a rude rhythm.

We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends. And in so doing, mayhap we reshaped the gods themselves. Now

We were human, mortal and fallible. We forgot, we made errors, argued ambiguities, and twisted meanings to suit our own ends.

People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.