Forgetting Quotes

But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.

~ Malala Yousafzai

Kayleigh was right. Without the pills, you really do feel nothing.And nothing can be nice.

~ Beth Revis

During the last ten years of his life my father gradually lost the power of speech. At first he simply had trouble calling up certain words or would say similar words instead and then immediately laugh at himself. In the end he had only a handful of words left, and all his attempts at saying anything more substantial resulted in one of the last sentences he could articulate: 'That's strange.'Whenever he said 'That's strange,' his eyes would express an infinite astonishment at knowing everything and being able to say nothing. Things lost their names and merged into a single, undifferentiated reality. I was the only one who by talking to him could temporarily transform that nameless infinity into the world of clearly named entities.

~ Milan Kundera

Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.

~ Brian Tracy

Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.

~ Adam Silvera

The inside jokes have already dissolved into unordered words with no punchline. The gifts have been reduced to objects whose saving grace is their monetary value, no meaning and all function. There are photographs, somewhere, but I’m not the person posed in them anymore and whoever that is sitting next to me, all dressed up in your costume and wearing your mask, well, that’s not you either.

~ Stephanie Georgopulos

You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.

~ Dan O'brien

In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of the moment. It may be some quite irrelevant detail, like the pattern of a wallpaper, but it will never be forgotten.

~ Agatha Christie

Thank god for Vegas. Seriously.A lobotomy wasn’t as effective as a weekend three hours of Red Bull away (from LA, not Pismo) where I wore the thinnest pinned stilettos, gambled like a sweaty degenerate mobster in black loafers, drank like Amy Winehouse and Charles Bukowski’s baby, and snorted throat-dripping lines of coke in a Hard Rock Hotel bathroom with four new best friends. I’d giddily rub off any one of those from the to-do list I wrote in eyeliner on my hotel bathroom mirror.

~ Christy Heron

To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .

~ John Daniel Thieme

Don’t forget the snow in the summertime, because you will meet him again when the summer is over!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

If you are able to forget yourself, you will know you would not be forgotten!

~ Abhijit Kar Gupta

The bird music sank into her, like a song you used to know but forgot long ago. You hear a piano play it some day, and for a minute you feel a happy pain, but you don't know why. Bird felt like that.

~ Katherine Catmull

The easiest way to get rid of bitterness is to spit it out. The easiest way to forget something noxious is to flush it. The easiest way to move on is to erase everything, and I do mean everything.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

The crime of loving is forgetting.

~ Maurice Chevalier

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

~ Lady Gaga

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture.

~ Albert J. Nock

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

~ Elizabeth Bibesco