Quotes About Forgetfulness

You lose your immortality when you lose your memory. And if you land then on Terra Caelestis, with your pillow and chamberpot, you are made to room not with Shakespeare or even Longfellow, but with guitarists and cretins.

Was I in here last night and did I spend a $20 bill? Oh, thank goodness... I thought I'd lost it.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

We forget all sorts of things that no one helps us remember

This is the terrible thing about a tragedy. It isn't with you every minute. You forget it, and then you remember it again. And you see it with a stark quality: This is what is required of you now, just to get along.

Así, quieto y ausente, estoy bien. En el color blanco encuentro el reposo. Déjame dormir. Déjame flotar. Sólo quiero navegar en las aguas insípidas del olvido.

I forgot to tell you Mary invited us to dinner. It'll be all my brothers. My parents may stop in, but they've been away this week." "You forgot? Really?" "I came into this room, and you took your clothes off. I forgot everything after that.

There is no remembrance which time doth not obliterate, nor pain which death doth not put an end to.

We think velocity is new, change is new, and this vast tumult and wave of fear is new. And we are wrong. There has never been firm ground for our lives and our only balm has been a forgetfulness of the changes we have endured.

Because the memory of those who lie below, passes away so soon. At first they tend them, morning, noon, and night; they soon begin to come less frequently; from once a day, to once a week; from once a week to once a month; then, at long and uncertain intervals; then, not at all. Such tokens seldom flourish long. I have known the briefest summer flowers outlive them.

Tomorrow will come They'll go back to their chore... But tonight they've forgotten their feet are so sore. And that's what the wonderful night time is for.

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

All that it took to destroy something, here, was to fail to keep track of it.

Es triste que nuestro cerebro no sea capaz de almacenar los recuerdos de cada segundo de nuestra vida.

Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.

El olvido es ahora la especialidad de su memoria.

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

I didn't want to forget, I simply have forgotten I have grown old and a terrible memory." I wish for, not what is or could ever be." Another Coffee Please!!!!

I didn't want to forget, I simply have forgotten I have grown old and a terrible memory." However I could never forget what is or could ever be." Another Coffee Please!!!!

The past is the past it cannot do anything for you in the present, all it's doing is depressing you stopping you from what you want to do now. The Bible says put the past in the sea of forgetfulness and move forward. The past brings you down not uplift you.

Why was he doubly irritated? Because he had forgotten and because he remembered that he had reminded himself twice not to forget.

You put me in mind of a man who spent his last cent on Ex-Lax and forgot the pay toilet cost a dime.

The gift of Morpheus brought not only sleep but oblivion.

She gave us her best advice on aging: "If you can't recall it, forget it.