Quotes About Forgetfulness

Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

De qué me gustaría huir? De la complejidad. De la angustia. De esa sensación que he tenido toda la vida de que en cualquier momento hay algo que olvido, un detalle, una obligación, algo que se supone que tendría que estar haciendo o que ya debería haber hecho. Es una sensación que no me deja en paz, me levanto con ella por la mañana y no se me va en todo el día. Me voy a dormir con esa sensación.

They don't know who the prime minister is; they don't know what day of the week, month or even year it is. They can't quite remember their daughters' names and they certainly can't remember if they had lunch today or what the plan is for supper tonight.

Oh my gosh, I'd give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it's going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I've already forgotten.

Now I think of no one anymore. I don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go. Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up: I forget them almost immediately.

Now I think of no one any more. I don't even bother looking for words. It flows in me, more or less quickly. I fix nothing, I let it go. Through the lack of attaching myself to words, my thoughts remain nebulous most of the time. They sketch vague, pleasant shapes and then are swallowed up: I forget them almost immediately.

Oh," I said, and I remembered that she had said something about this recently—but, of course, it had slipped my mind, since I was dwelling so selfishly on my one little problem of being on the verge of death and dishonor. "Well," I said, more to fill the silence than anything else, and Brian agreed.

Henry Loving stimulates the amnesia gene. But it's also true most people are simply extremely unobservant. Freddy

I don't understand German myself.  I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

I guess I forgot we were going out tonight. We always go out on Fridays. It's Thursday, Alvis. You are so tied to routine.

But when I come out of the woods, when I see the basket, scarcely a handful of words remain. The majority disappear. They vanish into thin air, they flow like water between my fingers. Because the basket is memory, and memory betrays me, memory doesn't hold up.

Drinking helps us to forget what we are, we leave the office and walk straight to the bar.

I can never remember what I do even in the studio.

I am a quick study - I can memorize a script in an hour - but I can't remember a name three seconds. I've even forgotten my wife's name on occasion.

Before a show, you might have aches or pains, or it's a bad rainy day, or it's too humid. We all complain about stuff. But... how do I put this poetically? Once it's the roar of the crowd and the smell of the greasepaint, forget it. Once the adrenaline kicks in and your chest expands, you forget about all that.

To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

What were you worried about this time last year? Can't remember

A short pencil is better than a long memory.

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.

all semester, it was being taught by the goldfish he had forgotten to feed for the last ten years.

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

He had another attack of what is known as 'transient global amnesia' (TGA) which wiped out every memory since early childhood. This attack lasted twelve hours. There are hundreds of examples of statins

That's the beauty of alcohol. If you don't remember it, it didn't happen.

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.