Quotes About Forgetfulness

I can't remember my PIN number for my debit card or my Facebook password. The digital age sucks sometimes.

But…" said the lion "you had told us that elephants never jump…"."I know…" said the elephant shyly "But I forgot".

Age carries all things away, even the mind.

Lust is less a physical need than a way of forgetting time and death.

Just as a good man forgets his deed the moment he has done it, a genuine writer forgets a work as soon as he has completed it and starts to think about the next one; if he thinks about his past work at all, he is more likely to remember its faults than its virtues. Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud.

we travel far and fast and as we pass through we forget where we have been

During an early performance of 'Spamalot,' I left my regal gloves in the fridge to cool down and didn't remember them until I was on stage. They needed to be thawed overnight.

When my children complain that I'm forgetful, I remind them that DAD is just ADD spelled sideways.

Anyhow, I took out my glasseye to sleep, and when I woke up I couldn't remember where I'd put it.

Women and men(both little and small) cared for anyone not at all they sowed their isn't they reaped their same sun moon stars rain children guessed(but only a few and down they forgot as up they grew

I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not once remember

How should I forget them? They are around me like wasps around a honeypot.

Education certainly gives victory, although victory sometimes produces forgetfulness of education; for many have grown insolent from victory in war, and this insolence has engendered in them innumerable evils; and many a victory has been and will be suicidal to the victors; but education is never suicidal.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer made the observation that when lust takes control, "At this moment God . . . loses all reality. . . . Satan does not fill us with hatred of God, but with forgetfulness of God."5

I'm not getting forgetful. I'm not that old. Yet first my slippers, now the door lock.

On mornings when I hope you forget my name, I walk through the high wet weeds that don't have names either. I do not remember the word dew. I do not remember what I told you with your ear in my teeth.

Living up the Moyea with plenty of small chores to distract him, he forgot he was a sad man. When the hymns began, he remembered.

I note that I've lived longer in the past, now, than I can expect to live in the future. I have more to remember than I have to look forward to. Memory fades, not much of the past stays, and I wouldn't mind forgetting a lot more of it.

When you have met God's conditions, He casts your sins behind His back into the ocean of His forgetfulness. It was Corrie ten Boom who added, "And when God casts our sins into the ocean, He puts up a sign: No fishing!" If almighty God has forgotten your sins, why should you try to remember them?

We come and go from mystery and, in between, we try to forget.

It would take a real daftie to forget that, Sassenach," he said. "I may be lacking practice, but I havena lost all my faculties yet.

We push experience aside and forget about people far too quickly.

Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory