Forgetfulness Quotes (page 15)

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• home
• die
• about

Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies. Yoko Ono

• ways
• never
• visited

Once you've visited the underworld, you never forget the way back. Jeffrey Eugenides

• learning
• you me
• forget you

You tell me, and I forget. You teach me, and I remember. You involve me, and I learn Benjamin Franklin

• one word
• words
• oneness

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget... Leo Tolstoy

• life
• star
• watch

Cradle Song for Eleano?: Sleep, my darling, sleep; The pity of it all Is all we compass if We watch disaster fall. Put off your twenty-odd Encumbered years and creep Into the only heaven, The robber? cave of sleep. The wild grass will whisper, Lights of passing cars Will streak across your dreams And fumble at the stars; Life will tap the window Only too soon again, Life will have her answer? Do not ask her when. When the winsome bubble Shivers, when the bough Breaks, will be... Louis MacNeice

• lot
• remembered
• canned

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget. Jodi Picoult

• love
• she
• calm

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble. Leo Tolstoy

• time
• lies
• reflection

I should like to direct the attention of artists. A constant producer, a man who is a "mother" in the grand sense of the term, one who no longer knows or hears of anything except pregnancies and childbeds of his spirit, who has no time at all to reflect and make comparisons with regard to himself and his work, who is also no longer inclined to exercise his taste, but simply forgets it, letting it take its chance of standing, lying or falling -- perhaps such a man at last produces works on... Friedrich Nietzsche

• water
• forget
• forgetful

And don't forget to water the fuckin' goldfish. William Gibson

• life
• god
• evening

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself Elie Wiesel

• world
• manly
• love

You and I were different. We came from different worlds, and yet you were the one how taught me the value of love. You showed me what it was like to care for another, and I am a better man because of it. I don't want you to ever forget that. Nicholas Sparks

• music
• light
• heart

In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence... Nathaniel Hawthorne

• you are loved
• die
• men

I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have... John Keats

• one word
• words
• manners

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not. Anne Sexton

• senior
• library
• mind

Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Frank Zappa