Quotes About Forgetfulness

I've got a very poor sense of direction. I keep forgetting which way is forwards.

First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two...

Amnesia—A specific and significant block of time that has passed but that cannot be accounted for by memory.

I swear to God I can't remember when I had a handbag. I know for some woman it's like an eleventh finger and you don't even think about it, even if you change every day. But I can't remember the handbag either. Who can run with a handbag?

Thus although Nebuchadnezzar no longer remembered his dream, yet he could not forget the impression it made.

The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

If she were neater, she might not have to resort to panic searches when she misplaced important things.

Did you ever walk in a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives.

You begin to forget what it means to live. You forget things. You forget that you used to feel all right. You forget what it means to feel all right because you feel like shit all of the time, and you can´t remember what it was like before.

they had completely forgotten to buy a postcard for Nutsawoo.

How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.

But she'll be there in the bathroom and she won't know how she got there.' 'And have you never walked into a room and wondered what you came in for? Have you never forgotten what you just did?

And have you never walked into a room and wondered what you came in for? Have you never forgotten what you just did? Have you never blanked out or misremembered what you were just doing?

But each day brings its petty dust Our soon-chok'd souls to fill, And we forget because we must, And not because we will.

Whoever wants to remember himself must entrust himself to forgetfulness, to the risk that absolute forgetfulness is, and the beautiful chance that memory then becomes.

Es error común de los humanos creer que el prójimo concede a su persona tanta importancia como cada uno se da a sí mismo; los demás, a no ser que tengan interés particular en el recuerdo, olvidan rápidamente lo que nos ha ocurrido, y si no lo han olvidado, su recuerdo no tiene la firmeza que imaginamos.

worse than amnesia, the loss of all memory. It is the chaotic falsification of memory. Dementia.

However imperfect our conception of virtue, still let us cling to it; for a moment's forgetfulness exposes us to all the malignant forces from without. The simplest lie to myself, buried though it may be in the silence of my soul, may yet be as dangerous to my inner liberty as an act of treachery on the marketplace. Widfom and Destiny

Forgetfulness and rnemory recalled are two modes of our oblique relation with a past that is present to us only through the determinate void that it leaves in us. These phenomenological descriptions are always somewhat misleading because they limit themselves to unraveling the negative in the positive and the positive in the negative.

In the way of all men, once the danger was past, they forgot the hardships and looked forward to the good things in life once more.

Ovo je drugi svijet, dalek i nerazumljiv. U?inili su, i gotovo! U?inili su, i šta treba o tome pri?ati? Mi prosti ljudi volimo da sladimo i preživamo ono što doživamo. Oni djeluju i zaboravljaju.

Why is it that the most fundamental life lesson—LIVE!—is the only one I continually forget to put into practice?