95 quotes found
“You can forget the past, but something should be left in your mine to not forget yourself.”
“. . .though the names of lovers are forgotten in time, their nameswritten across the sky as ogham threads are tracedbetween the stars”
“Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.”
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting...”
“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”
“That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget.”
“Too late for that now, the Eldest Leprechaun said. The damage is done. Give the thing a name, and it takes shape. They gave a name and a shape to the force thats always hated us. Its everything wer...”
“But God has also given us the power to forget, so that when the tragedy is over we carry on as normal.”
“During the last ten years of his life my father gradually lost the power of speech. At first he simply had trouble calling up certain words or would say similar words instead and then immediately l...”
“Always give without remembering and always receive without forgetting.”
“The inside jokes have already dissolved into unordered words with no punchline. The gifts have been reduced to objects whose saving grace is their monetary value, no meaning and all function. There...”
“Everyone plays a purpose, even fathers who lie to you or leave you behind. Time takes care of all that pain so if someone derails you, it'll be okay eventually.”
“You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.”
“In moments of great stress, the mind focuses itself upon some quite unimportant matter which is remembered long afterwards with the utmost fidelity, driven in, as it were, by the mental stress of t...”
“To forget would mean the things we never knew had never waited to be known, never waitedto be forgotten, had never been; waitingbeneath the long dead starsin time. . .”
“Well, nowIf little by little you stop loving meI shall stop loving youLittle by littleIf suddenly you forget meDo not look for meFor I shall already have forgotten youIf you think it long and mad t...”
“Do not allow me to forget you”
“A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly.That’s human action on the outside world.We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we ...”
“Sometimes one has to know something many times over. Sometimes one forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets, and then remembers. And then forgets again.”
“I don’t want to beone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, soinfluential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distantmemory.”
