Quotes About Forgetfulness

Oh my God, if I know anything, I know I'm gonna die! I never forget that. I know I'll be forgotten in a minute, and that's just fine with me.

For these treasures, and everything that he collected in his lovely house, were to be to him means of forgetfulness, modes by which he could escape, for a season, from the fear that seemed to him at times to be almost too great to be borne.

Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important.

The past could always be annihilated; regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. There were passions in him that would find their terrible outlet, dreams that would make the shadow of their evil real.

Though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still, and he was determined to forget

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that.

You always want to know what one has been doing. I always want to forget what I have been doing.

for that there was no atonement; but though forgiveness was impossible, forgetfulness was possible still

Nothing is so sure as the final oblivion.

A man who forgets what day he was married, when he's been married one year, will forget, at about the end of the fourth, that he's married at all.

Life is so short. Forgetting is so long

Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido

I looked at him as he turned and walked away and I saw a man who'd learnt nothing and forgotten nothing, a coward without dignity or honour or respect

It has always been difficult for me to face the truth about my childhood because it requires a commitment to explore the lineaments and features of a history I would prefer to forget. For years I did not have to face the demonology of my youth; I made a simple choice not to and found solace in the gentle palmistry of forgetfulness, a refuge in the cold, lordly glooms of the unconscious. But I was drawn back to the history of my family and the failures of my own adult life

She was a sweet, warm wind in my heart, a resting place, a place of peace where I could forget so many things . . .

Sobrecarregar a atenção diminui o domínio mental. É no momento em que estamos mais tensos que esquecemos os nomes das pessoas que conhecemos bem, já para não falar nas datas dos seus aniversários, dos nossos aniversários de casamento e de outros dados socialmente cruciais.

It's a strange sensation to pick up a book you read and enjoyed just a few months ago and discover you don't remember it.

Sigo dizendo de novo e de novo que tenho que fazer algo mas então me esqueço ou talvez seja só mais fácil não fazer o que digo que vou fazer

Marriage is the bond between a person who never remembers anniversaries and another who never forgets them.

There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).

A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things can be done at all.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

Middle age, my boy. No memory at all.