Quotes About Forgetfulness

Resisting God's promises will make us forget God's presence.

When all of life feels like an urgent rush from one demand to another, we become forgetful. We forget simple things like where we put our car keys or that one crucial ingredient for dinner when we run into the grocery store. But even more disturbing, we forget God. We say with our mouths that we are trusting and relying on God, but are we really?

Vješt je doista draguljar, koji slaže ljudsku dušu i koji joj daje mo?, da zaboravlja tamu, a sje?a se samo sun?eva sjaja!

The rule of identity is the rule of amnesia.

Just when you begin thinking of yourself as memorable, you run into someone who can't even remember having met you

In this world," Franny once observed, "just as you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that that they have met you.

There was no solution," Tolstoy writes in Anna Karenina, "but the universal solution that life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insoluble. That answer is: one must live in the needs of the day—that is forget oneself.

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't.

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Your memory is a monster; you forget -it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you - and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

She was intimidating to me in the way someone who never remembers your name can be intimidating. 'In this world,' Franny once observed, 'just when you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that they've met you.

In this world," Franny once observed, "just when you're trying to think of yourself as memorable, there is always someone who forgets that they've met you.

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget...

La qualifica più comune di chi fa previsioni in campo economico consiste non già nel sapere, ma nel non sapere di non sapere. Il suo grande vantaggio è che tutte le previsioni, giusta o sbagliate che siano, vengono rapidamente dimenticate.

That awkward moment when you're not lying, and you ACTUALLY LEFT YOUR HOMEWORK HOME.

I'm that horrible friend that reads your text then puts the phone down to do something and forgets to reply until 3 hours later.

It's sad how quickly people can forget about you until they want something from you.

Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?'

Have you no more memories?'

The question up for debate between Socrates and Phaedrus is whether the written word kills memory or aids it--whether it cripples the mind's power, or whether it cures it of its forgetfulness.

Nigdy nie by?am do ko?ca pewna, czy naprawd? istniej?. Mog?am przecie? by? cieniem, my?l?, obrazem, który b?yskawicznie przemkn?? pod powiekami innego cz?owieka. Jak?eby inaczej? Wystarczy?o, ?ebym siedzia?a w milczeniu przez minut? czy dwie i ca?y ?wiat móg? o mnie zapomnie?.

Undankbarkeit beginnt mit dem Vergessen. Aus Vergessen folgt Gleichgültigkeit, aus der Gleichgültigkeit Unzufriedenheit, aus der Unzufriedenheit Verzweiflung, aus der Verzweiflung der Fluch.

the long years with no more shared adventures, in which age makes itself felt more heavily and in which, without the author's romantic ingenuity, forgetfulness might have consumed everything, or nearly so.

Nostalgia or the height of bad faith: when its target is time, it performs a ruthless selection; forgetfulness is its secret and particularly effective weapon, a sharp knife that cuts ever deeper into the layers of memory and invents a past that never existed.