Forgetting Quotes

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

When I go on the plane to fly home, I'm literally capable of forgetting what I do for a job. That also comes about because I choose to take massive breaks between projects, and because I choose to do this ridiculous thing of keeping home, home.

The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down.

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality.

We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.

The crime of loving is forgetting.

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.

We're not leaving; we are just making sure we're not hurt too much by the level of the yen. We are stunned by the yen at 78 or 79 to the dollar, which is a historical high. The country's suffering. My duty is first to make sure Nissan gets unscathed through the turbulence to protect the company, without forgetting the fact we're a Japanese company.

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.

Every time somebody tries to go in and reinvent what we do, it always ends up being more about technology and sets, and flash and dash, forgetting the main thing, which is interesting people saying interesting, important things.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me.

I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content.