74 Easily Forgotten Quotes

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We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. - Joan Didion

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. — Joan Didion

You easily forget the eyes that don’t see you anymore — Greek Proverbs

When the past is forgotten, the present is unforgettable — Martin Amis

It is easy to forget a kindness, but one remembers unkindness. — Indian Proverbs

out of sight,out of mind — Homer

To forget is the secret of eternal youth. One grows old only through memory. There's much too little forgetting. — Erich Maria Remarque

When the pain has passed one forgets the medicine. — Vietnamese Proverbs

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

What is forgiven is usually well remembered. — Louis Dudek

Think about me lightly, think of me, and forget. — Marina Tsvetaeva

Acts of kindness may soon be forgotten, but the memory of an offense remains. — Proverbs

We notice faults of others and easily forget our own. — Swedish Proverbs

Nobody remembers your mistakes as much as you do. — Mark Manson

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. — Kahlil Gibran

It's amazing how the things you remember forever are the things you'd rather forget and the things you desperately want to grasp onto seem to slip away like sand in the wind. — Jessica Sorensen

You Are Not Forgotten Quotes

Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, you are not forgotten. No matter how dark your days may seem, no matter how insignificant you may feel, no matter how overshadowed you think you may be, your Heavenly Father has not forgotten you. In fact, He loves you with an infinite love. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The reason American cars don't sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That's why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire. — Karl Lagerfeld

Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that. — Harry Hay

Easily forgotten quote A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forg
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

I try not to think about legacy because it is all ­folly. If you study history, even recent history, you'll find many people who were quite significant in their time but are completely forgotten. — Steve Martin

You are wrong if you think that you can in any way take the vision and tame it... The vision is not so much destroyed, exactly, as it is, by the time you have finished, forgotten. It has been replaced by this changeling. — Annie Dillard

You can find Calcutta anywhere in the world. You only need two eyes to see. Everywhere in the world there are people that are not loved, people that are not wanted nor desired, people that no one will help, people that are pushed away or forgotten. And this is the greatest poverty. — Mother Teresa

Easily forgotten quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation. — Libba Bray

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing. — Benjamin Franklin

I'm not in journalism for the money. I'm in it to tell great stories, to talk about moments of history that are forgotten, and also to get into the nitty gritty of drug policy that you don't really see written about anywhere else. — Ethan Brown

Being Forgotten Quotes

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway. For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway. — Mother Teresa

Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten. — Idi Amin

Easily forgotten quote Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.
Be careful with your words, once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten.

It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them. — Bill W.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words. — Donna Roberts

It must never be forgotten...that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government as by the limitation of power. — Richard Henry Lee

Easily forgotten quote An unbending tree is easily broken.
An unbending tree is easily broken.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. — Calvin Coolidge

Once upon a time, when women were birds, there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn, and to sing at dusk, was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated. — Terry Tempest Williams

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know - we have forgotten how to be - to be still - to be ourselves - to be where life is here and now — Eckhart Tolle

We've chosen to stay part of the Westminster system, but we don't want to be a forgotten, sidelined part of it. — Nicola Sturgeon

Not Forgotten Quotes

Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite. — Ronald Reagan

I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus to those who do not know Him or have forgotten Him. — Frances Xavier Cabrini

God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours. — Louie Giglio

Easily forgotten quote The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

The first Republican I knew was my father and he is still the Republican I most admire. He joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him to vote. The Republicans did. My father has never forgotten that day, and neither have I. — Condoleezza Rice

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling — Rudyard Kipling

Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. - Moses

Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. — Moses

Easily forgotten quote Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.
Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart. — Stephen King

Niger is not an isolated island of desperation. It lies within a sea of problems across Africa - particularly the 'forgotten emergencies' in poor countries or regions with little strategic or material appeal. — Desmond Tutu

someday we will regard our children not as creatures to manipulate or to change but rather as messengers from a world we once deeply knew, but which we have long since forgotten, who can reveal to us more about the true secrets of life, and also our own lives, than our parents were ever able to. — Alice Miller

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world. — K'naan

Forgotten Quotes

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. — Albert Einstein

You can do nice things for people all of the time and it's never noticed but as soon as you make one mistake it's never forgotten. — Tyga

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - B. F. Skinner

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B. F. Skinner

Easily forgotten quote Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.
Actions are remembered long after words are forgotten.

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before. — Steven Wright

Where does a thought go when it's forgotten? — Sigmund Freud

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he comes into contact with nature, threatens to kill the natural system in which and from which he live. — Konrad Lorenz

Easily forgotten quote Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in high school.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in high school.

Look for the enemies of Medicare, of higher minimum wages, of Social Security, of federal aid to education and there you will find the enemy of the Negro, the coalition of Dixiecrats and reactionary Republicans that seek to dominate the Congress. — A. Philip Randolph

We hear a constant clamor for rights, rights, always rights, but so very little about responsibility. And we have forgotten God. The need now is for selflessness, for a spirit of sacrifice, for a willingness to put aside personal gains for the salvation of the whole Western world. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. - Marie Antoinette

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten. — Marie Antoinette

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — Albert Einstein

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More Easily Forgotten Quotes

I can think of no better way of redeeming this tragic world today than love and laughter. Too many of the young have forgotten how to laugh, and too many of the elders have forgotten how to love. Would not our lives be lightened if only we could all learn to laugh more easily at ourselves and to love one another? — Theodore Hesburgh

One reason golf is such an exasperating game is that a thing we learned is so easily forgotten, and we find ourselves struggling year after year with faults we had discovered and corrected time and again. — Bobby Jones

I don't want to be one of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, so influential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distant memory. — Cecelia Ahern

Easily forgotten quote Education is what survives when what has been learned has be
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Physical pain is easily forgotten, but a moral chagrin lasts indefinitely. — Santiago Ramon y Cajal

You have the rest of your lives to catch up together. After all, soulmates always end up together. [...] Ey-girlfriends are easily forgotten. Best friends stay with you for ever. — Cecelia Ahern

A red map isn't easy to follow. Any document made of blood and bones is tricky. Wrong turns are easily made, and there are often piles of stones in the road. A person has to disregard time and sorrow and all the damage done. If you follow, if you dare, the thread always leads to whomever or whatever you've forgotten. — Alice Hoffman

Easily forgotten quote Criticism is something we can avoid easily, by saying nothin
Criticism is something we can avoid easily, by saying nothing, and being nothing.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! -- what worthy man does not keep those in mind? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? — William Makepeace Thackeray

I thought if I gave people all of my journey in one go, it could be overwhelming and easily forgotten, and I didn't want to make an album where the single was so popular that you overlook the whole record. So three parts felt right - it's a number that can't be divided into. — Dawn Angelique

The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten. — Brian Eno

What is forgotten cannot be healed, and that which cannot be healed easily becomes the cause of greater evil. — Henri Nouwen

The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'etre is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug. — Edward Said

Actors have a magic gene within them - I think they're the finest descendants of rogues and vagabonds - and it's all too easily forgotten what the acting legacy is. — Julian Sands

Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing. — Joe Strummer

You are not easily forgotten. — Greg Behrendt

...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be. — Ray Bradbury

You all say the same thing. When something bad happens, everyone tells you to forget about it. But, I don't think you can forget that easily. You may be able to pretend you've forgotten, but I don't think anyone can completely forget. — Fuyumi Soryo

Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul. — E. M. Forster

How easily this unthinking family love was forgotten. — Ian McEwan

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