Forgetting Quotes

“Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.”

“A man must get a thing before he can forget it.”

“[M]y memory rests, but never forgets what I lost.”

“Etiam oblivisci quod scis interdum expedit.”

“Es tan corto el amor y tan largo el olvido.”

“May your way of life not be forgotten, may your name be called on.”

“If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning.”

“You forget a thousand things every day, pal. Make sure this is one of 'em.”

“The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.”

“Unliving things have no passions, and no memory: mere matter is the amnesia of the universe.”

“We bury love,
Forgetfulness grows over it like grass;
That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.”

“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”

“FORGETFULNESS, n. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.”

“That’s the greatest evil in the universe—the entropic decay of organized information. Forgetfulness. We despise it.”

“But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back.”

“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.”

“God of love, show us our place in this world as channels of your love for all the creatures of this earth, for not one of them is forgotten in your sight".”

“God and the Doctor we alike adore
But only when in danger, not before;
The danger o'er, both are alike requited,
God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.”

“Our God and soldier we alike adore,
When at the brink of ruin, not before;
After deliverance both alike requited,
Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted.”

“One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away;
Agayne I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey.”