Quotes About Forgetfulness

L'exil accélère l'oubli. L'exil va vite. Il suffit de quelques mois parfois, d'une année ou deux, pour que le pays qui était le sien ne soit plus le même.

I have particularly acute hearing, but Gran had obviously forgotten this fact.

How quickly people forget the taste of freedom, swapping it for this easy comfortable thing they call peace. Sleep is peaceful. Death is peaceful. Freedom is life and wakefulness.

The living mourn the dead for a time but they forget about them as days pass. The living are so selfish, so spoilt, so taken with the very act of living that they don't remember long.

25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?' 26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down some where, forget my own head next.' 27 And the Lord did not ask him again.

No. This is stuff that is from the first half of the alphabet. But I'm not completely consistent. Sometimes I go by the first name and sometimes by the second, then forget which I've done.

Should the Egyptians learn to write, Thamus goes on, "it will implant forgetfulness in their souls: they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written, calling things to remembrance no longer from within themselves, but by means of external marks." The

By God, the point of the thing is not in this property, which can be confiscated, but in that which no one can steal and carry off! ... Forget this noisy world and all its seductive fancies; let it forget you, too. There is no peace in it. You see: everything in it is either an enemy, a tempter, or a traitor.

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

Çünkü romantikler göbekliolamazlar: yasakt?r. Ben sana gösteririm. Limonata-pasta-komparsita dü?ünü yaparak evlendin; bir önceki unutulmaz a?k?n?n elemini bir sonraki k?z?n kollar?nda unuttun ve Allah kahretsin, belki de bu kelimelerle anlatt?n durumunu k?za evlenme teklif ederken.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall

The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

The only way to stay out of trouble is to grow old, so I guess I'll concentrate on that. Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget her—maybe I'll die trying.

I have only to shut my eyes after looking at it to forget the face. I can remember the wall of the room, the little heater, but all impression of the face of the principal figure in the room is blotted out; I am unable to recall a single thing about it.

I am the sort of person who can forget even the name of the woman with whom he attempted suicide) to get off from work. The sushi I was eating had nothing to recommend it. Why, when I have forgotten her name, should I be able to remember so clearly how bad the sushi tasted?

Es decir, que está debe ser la forma de hospitalidad de la gente verdaderamente elegante. Recibir al visitante y, a continuación, olvidarse de él. Y por añadidura, disponer de manera desordenada alrededor del visitante delicioso sake y exóticos manjares. No hay baile ni música preparados con la evidente finalidad de dar la bienvenida al visitante... Este, por su parte, no tiene necesidad de poner una cara especial para demostrar ex profeso su admiración.

I am so ignorant that I cannot remember much from the list of the lesser stars. It may be that they have suffered indignities.

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido.

Es tan corto el amor, y tan largo el olvido. (Love is so short, and forgetting is so long.)

Each culture defines its own idiosyncracies and then forgets that it has done so.

I think I'll just go take a shower," I said. It wasn't until Samuel stiffened that I remembered I'd just come out of the shower. So much for playing normal.

Trying to remember, I have learned , is like trying to clutch a handful of fog. Trying to forget, like trying to hold back the mons

There are blanks in a life, but also sometimes what they call a refrain. For periods of varying length, you don't hear this refrain, as if you've forgotten it.