Forgetfulness Quotes

Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every little hurt, and all the great hurts. Each one was pulled out of him, detail by detail, inch by inch. The demon stripped away the cover of forgetfulness, stripped everything down to truth, and it hurt more than anything.

~ Neil Gaiman

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It is fatal to forget the heavenly Father.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...

~ Ahmed Mostafa

I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was the long talk I had with June. Mathematics came to tell me that May is 3, June is 4 and April is 5. ‘ This should have been the counting order’ Mathematics said to me, and added, if you add 3 and 5 you shall surely get 8 and if you find the mid of 8 you will get 4 which is June. Ask June why the disorder! So I quickly called June and asked, why have you change the order? June said, ‘my brother, in this era, you should least give men things which are in order. Let them ponder and put things in order and they will learn something better’. I had to ponder and wonder. Then June added, those who will ponder to know why I have change the order to be at the mid of the other shall get to the mid of the other and wonder why they are at the mid of the other and end the other in wonder but, those who would never see why they must ponder when they get to the mid of the other to know why I am there shall end the other in disorder. They shall end the other and wander in the end! I was quick to ask June, which other? June calmly said, the twelve disciples of the year. Disciples’? I asked. June quickly said, I mean months! In your journey of life, take a break as you journey and ponder over the journey; June concluded!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

~ Kahlil Gibran

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Do not forget the Heavenly Father.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A fleeting moment can become an eternity. From a past encounter everything may disappear in the dungeon of forgetfulness. A few furtive flashes or innocent twinkles can survive, though. Some immaterial details may remain marked in our memory, forever. A significant look, a salient colour or a unforeseen gesture may abide, indelibly engraved in our mind. ( Girl in blue )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

~ Thomas Mann

Please continue praising me and forget all about me the very next day.

~ Ahmed Mostafa

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships

~ Anuradha Bhattacharyya

Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?

~ Ade Santi

The effects of overworking,You forget which day it is.You think fast than what you write.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

~ Broken

To forget is to blithely toss aside the hard lessons that were hard won by others before us, thereby needlessly dooming us to endure the hard lessons that are likely to be forgotten by those who will follow us. And it is altogether reasonable that in order to avoid this repetitive trouncing, God graciously granted us memories.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Forgiveness is a clean lotion that heals the wounds of misunderstandings! To iron out the differences, get the painful sores dressed up, Forgive and Forget!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition.

~ Soul Dancer

If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the privilege you have to possess it in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

~ James Stephens

The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.

~ Vera Nazarian

Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever there is no restless human infection to affect it.

~ Ivan Turgenev

When time furtively slips like sand through the fingers and our memory becomes tired and lazy, we recognize we are at war. We are at war with forgetfulness. (The past was her best friend )

~ Erik Pevernagie

In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people who are diagnosed with DID. Note that this is not an explicit diagnostic criterion, although such amnesia features strongly in the public view of DID, particularly in the form of the fugue-like conditions depicted in films of the condition, such as The Three Faces of Eve (1957). Typically, when one personality state, or ‘alter’, takes over from another, they have no idea what happened just before. They report having lost time, and often will have no idea where they are or how they got there. However, this is not a universal feature of DID. It happens that with certain individuals with DID, one personality state can retrieve what happened when another was in control. In other cases we have what is described as ‘co-consciousness’ where one personality state can apparently monitor what is happening when another personality state is in control and, in certain circumstances, can take over the conversation.

~ John Morton

Though you forget the way to the Temple,There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger.

~ T.s. Eliot

I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memory waiting to be swept away. I pray for forgetfulness, yet my memory remains strong, as does the outstretched arm of the oppressive air. It seems as if the wind has been there since the beginning of the nightmare. Sometimes loud and harsh, a thousand sharp needles scratching at my reddened skin. Sometimes a whisper, a curious sigh in the black of night, of words more frightening than pain. I know now the wind has been speaking to me. Only I couldn't understand because I was too scared. I am scared now as I write these words. Still, there is nothing else to do.

~ Christopher Pike

If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.

~ Robert Greene

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

~ George Sand

The reason I might forget something is because my mind is like a computer. I have so much useless stuff stored up in there, that when I forget to clean out my Mind's Cache, it has no room for new information. Like wearing pants!

~ James Hauenstein

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.

~ Alain De Botton

At the age of 46, forgetfulness & confusion had become a daily aspect of life.

~ Steven Magee

As we drew nearer the green shore the bearded man told me of that land, the Land of Zar, where dwell all the dreams and thoughts of beauty that come to men once and then are forgotten. And when I looked upon the terraces again I saw that what he said was true, for among the sights before me were many things I had once seen through the mists beyond the horizon and in the phosphorescent depths of the ocean.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that room alone, then you can absolutely forget about it after you add another person.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

~ Amit Kalantri

I know I do everything. I've been doing everything for an awfully long time, and I've seen and lived as hard as I could, and it's been unbelievable, I tell you, unbelievable. But now I have the feeling everything is gliding away from me, and I don't remember, and I don't care, and yet now is right when I need it.

~ Tove Jansson

So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned.

~ Harley King