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Quotes About Forgetfulness

Its just human nature. People forget past and only care about their present and don't think what will happen in future...
~ Taimoor Madni
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
~ Andre Gide
I have forgotten my umbrella.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Mankind has two immense problems, they forget to use logic and begin at the root of each trouble.
~ K.R. Royal
A clear conscience is due to a poor memory.
~ R.J. Newman
Men moving only in an official circle are apt to become merely official -- not to say arbitrary -- in their ideas, and are apter and apter with each passing day to forget that they only hold power in a representative capacity.
~ William Adams
The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.
~ William Faulkner
Satan's primary temptation strategy is to try and make us forget what God has said about us and to evaluate our standing before God by some other criteria
~ J. D. Greear
One thing I have no worry about is whether God exists. But it has occurred to me that God has Alzheimer's and has forgotten we exist.
~ Jane Wagner
It is because of our foolishness that we forget who God is.
~ Louie Giglio
I'm so tired after dinner I fall asleep with my clothes on, almost as soon as my head hits the pillow, and so I forget to ask God, in my prayers, to keep me from waking up.
~ Lauren Oliver
As soon as I jumped out of the airplane, I realized I had forgotten my parachute. Thank God we were still on the runway.
~ Demetri Martin
What you cant forget... God cant remember!
~ John F. MacArthur Jr.
A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I coined a word the other day, but I forgot what it was. It was a good one, it came to me in a dream.
~ Michael Nesmith
All good conversation, manners, and action come from a spontaneity which forgets usages and makes the moment great.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.
~ Aaron Sorkin
There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.
~ Dan Jenkins
States of profound happiness, like all other forms of intoxication, are apt to befuddle the wits; intense enjoyment of the present always makes one forget the past.
~ Stefan Zweig
A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him up for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown.
~ William Butler Yeats
I'm not the type of guy that will make you happy. I'm the type of guy that will make you forget how unhappy we all are.
~ James Karrigan
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
~ John Guare
No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.
~ Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light