Forgot Quotes

• Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Friends
  • Reality
  • Human Beings

• ...the figure near at hand suffers on such occasions, because it shows up its sorriness without shade; while vague figures afar off are honored, in that their distance makes artistic virtues of their stains. In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire.

  

  Thomas Hardy
  • Distance
  • Figures
  • Suffers

• But, I nearly forgot, you must close your eyes otherwise you won't see anything.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Eyes
  • Close
  • Forgot

• I think there is a part of me that's always a little bit like, "Why would I torture myself? Just in case you forgot how big the shoes are you're walking in, take a look again". Like, I think I pussy out. So, I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Part
  • Torture
  • Pussy

• I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot and it vexes me much. That English is what you speak!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Speak
  • German
  • Greek

• There was a willow hanging over the mill-pool and I learned to climb it. It belonged to a butcher on the Stratford Road, I think. One day they cut it down. They didn't do anything with it: the log just lay there. I never forgot that.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Learned
  • Pool
  • Climb

• I've definitely done my share of tripping over monitors, etc. but nothing could compare to the time when I totally forgot the beginning of a song that I was starting on stage.

  

  Amanda Stott
  • Song
  • Stage
  • Forgot

• You guys probably forgot how he played those first 12 games.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Games
  • Played
  • Forgot

• I was almost persuaded to be a Christian. I thought I never again could be thoughtless and worldly. But I soon forgot my morning prayer or else it was irksome to me. One by one my old habits returned and I cared less for religion than ever.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Christian
  • Prayer
  • Forgot

• This is why I forgive, but I don't forget. When you forget someone, the forgiveness doesn't mean anything anymore.

  

  Barry Lyga
  • Forgive
  • Forgot

• I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind, Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng

  

  Ernest Dowson
  • Wind
  • Roses
  • Forgot

• But today I felt different, today I forgot how long it takes to get into the skin of a character and I remembered it, because today I actually got into that skin and it felt so different.

  

  Estelle Parsons
  • Different
  • Character
  • Skin

• Just because you forgot about your sins, doesn't mean they have been forgiven.

  

  Boonaa Mohammed
  • Sins
  • Forgiven
  • Forgot

• But never yet the dog our country fed, Betrayed the kindness or forgot the bread.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Dog
  • Kindness
  • Betrayed

• When Dante described the circles of Hell, he clearly forgot the one where a hungry pixie sits on one's shoulder for eternity.

  

  Elizabeth May
  • Hell
  • Eternity
  • Circles

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