Forgetfulness Quotes (page 50)

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• dissolving
• fade
• dissolve

Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget... John Keats

• world
• time
• little

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it. Samuel Pepys

• powerful
• my friend
• look

But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had—power. Friedrich Nietzsche

• funny
• time
• forgetting

Time goes by at such a pace, it's funny how it's easy to forget her face Bil Keane

• crying
• bike
• giving

Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done. Alice Hoffman

• smile
• greatness
• vampire

Glass shattered, vampires roared, humans screamed. The noise battered at me, just as the tidal wave of scores of brains at high gear washed over me. When it began to taper off, I looked up into Eric's eyes. Incredibly, he was excited. He smiled at me. "I knew I'd get on top of you somehow," he said. Are you trying to make me mad so I'll forget how scared I am?"No, I'm just opportunistic."I wiggled, trying to get out from under him, and he said, "Oh, do that again. It felt great. Charlaine Harris

• waiting
• night
• sleep

that since Cecilia’s suicide, the Lisbon’s could hardly wait for the night to forget themselves in sleep Jeffrey Eugenides

• july
• people
• boys

And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night on July 27?" What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays. Norton Juster

• thinking
• question
• begining

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions. Madeleine L'Engle

• thinking
• mercy
• merciful

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget. John Donne

• memorial
• time
• memories

One of the Georges - I forget which - once said that a certain number of hours sleep each night - I cannot recall at the moment how many - made a man something which for the time being has slipped my memory. P. G. Wodehouse

• sleep
• die
• you me

I am stone and steel of your sleeping numbers; I remember all you forget. I will die as many timesas you make me over again. Carl Sandburg

• gin
• bird
• ironic

He couldn't tell that this was one of those occasions a man never forgets: a small cicatrice had been made on the memory, a wound that would ache whenever certain things combined - the taste of gin at mid-day, the smell of flowers under a balcony, the clang of corrugated iron, an ugly bird flopping from perch to perch. Graham Greene

• fighting
• you me
• i love you

A certain amount of volatility and drama can me healthy and keep things fun and interesting if you're willing at any moment during a fight to say, 'This means nothing. I love you, let's forget about it. Anthony Kiedis

• look
• saying
• moon

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation. Michael Ondaatje