#Forgetfulness Quotes

“O teach me how I should forget to think (1.1.224)”

“I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!”

“Is it possible to get another key? I think I've left mine in the room.”

“My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges.”

“A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.”

“I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget.”

“The most fundamental form of human stupidity is forgetting what we were trying to do in the first place.”

“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”

“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”

“To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.”

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

“When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that "being" is merely a continual "has been," a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself.”

“People tend to forget their duties but remember their rights.”

“Truths are illlusions which we have forgotten are illusions.”

“Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.”

“If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe.”

“I just remembered that I'm absent minded... wait, I mean I lost my mind, I can't find it.”

“You might have mentioned this to me Molly,” said Leonard. “The fact that there are hostile natives on the island.” “I forgot,” said Molly. “You forgot?” said Leonard. “There’s been a lot happening,” said Molly.”

“Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.”

“I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.”