Quotes About Forgetfulness

As the wars and natural disasters fall upon one another like a hard rain, they get buried in the quickly overlapping layers of mud in our shitty memories.

I can say with a solid degree of authority that I am a selfish person. I spontaneously forget the names of more people than not, unless I want to make out with them. I will take the last square of toilet paper off the roll without thinking twice. I tip taxi drivers so poorly I'm amazed none of them have run over my foot while speeding off.

Men forget everything; women remember everything.

Men were stupid to forget what good sleuths women could be.

I have made many serious statements - I just can't remember any of them. I guess they mustn't have been very important.

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state

Money! Ho, ho! 'T'as been my want so long, 'tis now my scoff. I've e'en forgot what colour silver's of.

In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird

He couldn't remember either the names or the addresses or the telephone numbers of two or three staggeringly attractive women he had met: their details were always just out of recall, the fingertips of his memory couldn't reach the shelf they were kept on, so he had no way of tracking down the beauties.

You should do it, Trixie. It's good for your soul. If you have a desire to write, that means there's stuff in you that wants out. And if you don't write things down, you just forget them," he said. "Think of all the stuff you've forgotten over the course of your lifetime." "How can I think of it if I've forgotten it?" "My point exactly.

All the things we enjoy, says John Calvin, are "ladders by which we may ascend nearer to God". "God," he says, "by his benefits, gently attracts us to himself, giving us a taste of his fatherly sweetness". But Calvin also warns, "There is nothing into which we more easily fall than into a forgetfulness of him, especially when we enjoy peace and comfort".

I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and I would get distracted. Oh, and I have absolutely no sense of direction at all.

You know, I'd forget words and start just singing noises.

I am very scatty, I don't follow things through, I forget things. I am not perfect.

I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards.

You know," he laughed easily, "with all the goddam drinkin' Ah've done, Ah still can't remember the taste of it unless Ah got the bottle right with me.

And now, he continued, speaking to Milo, where were you on the night of July 27? What does that have to do with it? asked Milo. It's my birthday, that's what, said the policeman as he entered Forgot my birthday in his little book. Boys always forget other people's birthdays.

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

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The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

And now I wonder what the old man remembers about her these days. Maybe nothing. Maybe silence has cured him of memory . Maybe there's an absolute vacuum in the anathema of age

Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.

He pulled the boy closer. Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.