Forget Quotes

• Much of that afternoon remains an intense blur: Maybe extremes of pleasure and pain are just too much for the memory to handle, which is why we forget.

  

  Catherine Sanderson
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Afternoon

• I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Thinking
  • Forget
  • Three

• So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

  

  Adrian Tan
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Soon we'll be out amid the cold world's strife. Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life. But as we go our sordid sep'rate ways, We shall ne'er forget thee, thou golden college days. Hearts full of youth, Hearts full of truth, Six parts gin to one part vermouth.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • World
  • Heart
  • Past

• Isn’t it strange how we always seem to remember the trivial things from our daily lives... yet we so often forget the most important ones?

  

  Fábio Moon
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Trivial

• If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget about money. A preoccupation with money distracts everyone - employers and employees - from the issues that really matter.

  

  Alfie Kohn
  • Money
  • Issues
  • Rewards

• Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Forget
  • Explanations
  • Human Actions

• Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Sacrifice

• We read five words on the first page of a really good novel and we begin to forget that we are reading printed words on a page; we begin to see images.

  

  John Gardner
  • Reading
  • Novel
  • Printed

• Basically it takes me very little time to write a song. If I find myself taking more than an hour to do it I usually forget it, and try something else. I like to work quickly; I never like to waste any time. I never write half a song and come back to it later at all. It all has to be done at once. I lose interest if it doesn't.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • Interest
  • Waste Time
  • Write A Song

• Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Earth
  • Listening
  • Immigration

• Often we are so concerned with what makes us feel good that we forget what makes us great.

  

  Chin-Ning Chu
  • Good
  • Great
  • Forget

• For I love the empress of my soul. I love and I cannot but love. You yourself see the whole of me. I shall fly to her, fall down before her: you were right to walk past me.. farewell and forget your victim, never trouble yourself more!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Trouble
  • I Love
  • Victim

• Some memories are made out of the paper, they burn like a high school cigarette. Some leave without a “see you later”. Turn the page and pretty soon you forget. And others are made of concrete, others are made of steel. No, you can’t get away from the way they made you feel.

  

  Carly Pearce
  • Feel
  • Memories
  • Turn

• If I had to spend equal time doing paintings, and equal time going to galleries and doing art business, and equal time making music, and equal time going to record companies, or to the publicist or to the lawyer, forget it. It would take four times as long to do all that stuff. Unless I had a patron. That's why Leonardo da Vinci was successful. He had the Medicis, right?

  

  Debbie Harry Blondie
  • Long
  • Art
  • Painting

• When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts.

  

  Anzia Yezierska
  • World
  • Wings
  • Lifts

• I have no use for cranks who despise music, because it is a gift of God. Music drives away the Devil and makes people joyful; they forget thereby all wrath, unchastity, arrogance, and the like. Next after theology, I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Music
  • Honor
  • Joyful

• The rest-the vast majority, tens of thousands of days-are unremarkable, repetitive, even monotonous. We glide through them then instantly forget them. We tend not to think about this arithmetic when we look back on our lives. We remember the handful of Big Days and throw away the rest. We organize our long, shapeless lives into tidy little stories...But our lives are mostly made up of junk, of ordinary, forgettable days, and 'The End' is never the end.

  

  William Landay
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Remember

• The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

  

  Bernie Taupin
  • Forget
  • Albums
  • Worst Thing

• People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.

  

  Siouxsie Sioux Siouxsie and the Banshees
  • People
  • Guitar
  • Chanteuse

• But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Forget
  • Forgive
  • Lambs

• One can forget even a raging toothache on Haystacks.

  

  Alfred Wainwright
  • Forget
  • Toothache
  • Haystacks

• I remember feeling the temperature change the first time the curtain came up, the difference between the audience temperature and the stage temperature. I'll never forget it.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Remember
  • Feelings
  • Audience

• I don't forget what I used to do and so I can't justifiably say to my kid, "Don't you do that," when I used to do it myself.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Kids
  • Forget
  • Used

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