forgetfulness quotes

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

Holes in the memory. You grab on to some things, others have completely disappeared.

Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

If it’s hard to remember, it’ll be difficult to forget.

I never know what day it is. Never, ever, ever.

Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time… I think I’ve forgotten this before.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear, and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses, he will endure or be forgotten.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Washington is a very easy city for you to forget where you came from and why you got there in the first place.

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Let a man get up and say, Behold, this is the truth, and instantly I perceive a sandy cat filching a piece of fish in the background. Look, you have forgotten the cat, I say.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

Voters quickly forget what a man says.

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.

I’ve got a terrible memory; it’s probably because I’m always concentrating on what I’m doing now.