148 Forgotten Quotes

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Famous Forgotten Quotes

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

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

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

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. - Baal Shem Tov

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Baal Shem Tov

Friendships and loves are forgotten, and when they meet, they talk like strangers, like passers-by — Greek Proverbs

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

What is forgiven is usually well remembered. — Louis Dudek

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. - Andrei Tarkovsky

Unspoken feelings are unforgettable. — Andrei Tarkovsky

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us — Sappho

Eternity forbids thee to forget. — Lord Byron

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. - Kahlil Gibran

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. — Kahlil Gibran

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

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

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

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. — Ambrose Bierce

Short Forgotten Quotes

  • Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. — B. F. Skinner
  • Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before. — Steven Wright
  • God calls each and every star by name. It’s not likely He has forgotten yours. — Louie Giglio
  • Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. — Albert Einstein
  • The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten. — Calvin Coolidge
  • Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear. — John Lennon
  • Long after one has forgotten what a woman wore, the memory of her perfume lingers. — Christian Dior
  • Have you forgotten God? Even if you have, He has not forgotten you. — Moses
  • To be good is to be forgotten. I'm going to be so bad I'll always be remembered. — Theda Bara
  • If you are in the house of a friend, bad times are soon forgotten. — Albanian Proverbs

Forgotten Image Quotes

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. - Aldo Gucci quote

Quality is remembered long after price is forgotten. — Aldo Gucci

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. - Richard Buckminster Fuller quote

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. — Richard Buckminster Fuller

Pray to understand what man has forgotten. - American Indian Proverbs quote

Pray to understand what man has forgotten. — American Indian Proverbs

It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who. - Joan Rivers quote

It's so long since I've had sex I've forgotten who ties up who. — Joan Rivers

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.

You Will Never Be Forgotten Quotes

Write your name in kindness, love and mercy on the hearts of the thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. — Thomas Chalmers

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. — Conrad Hall

PRE. For your dedication and loyalty to your principles and beliefs. For your love,warmth and friendship. For your family and friends. You are missed by so many and you will never be forgotten. — Steve Prefontaine

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.

If you do something extraordinary for your customer you will never be forgotten. Customer service heroes get remembered, but legends never die. — Eric Lander

Gone But Not Forgotten Quotes

Gone, but not forgotten. — Phillip Margolin

The king is gone but he's not forgotten — Neil Young

But now the joy is gone and the sadness is back, the sadness feels like something deserved, the price of some not-quite-forgotten betrayal. — Stephen King

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.

Gone is not forgotten, but our lives cannot be a memorial. This city cannot be a memorial. This city has to be a city. Our lives have to be our lives. — David Levithan

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

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.

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

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

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

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. - Evita Peron

My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. — Evita Peron

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known. — Marion Woodman

Never Forgotten Quotes

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

I think love is caramel. Sweet and fragant; always welcome. It is the gentle golden colour of a setting harvest sun; the warmth of a squeezed embrace; the easy melting of two souls into one and a taste that lingers even when everything else has melted away. Once tasted it is never forgotten. — Jenny Colgan

I have never forgotten my days as an Eagle Scout. I didn't know it at the time, but what really came out of my Scouting was learning how to lead and serve the community. It has come in handy in my career in government. — Lloyd Bentsen

Forgotten quote Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.

Heartbroken and in tears over the shocking death of my friend, the incomparable Ms. Whitney Houston. My heartfelt condolences to Whitney's family and to all her millions of fans throughout the world. She will never be forgotten as one of the greatest voices to ever grace the earth. — Mariah Carey

A man dies ... only a few circles in the water prove that he was ever there. And even they quickly disappear. And when they're gone, he's forgotten, without a trace, as if he'd never even existed. And that's all. — Wolfgang Borchert

The fact must never be forgotten that no magazine publisher in the United States could give what it is giving to the reader each month if it were not for the revenue which the advertiser brings the magazine. — Edward Bok

Forgotten quote An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Go on, have a pasty," said Harry, who had never had anything to share before or, indeed, anyone to share it with. It was a nice feeling, sitting there with Ron, eating their way through all Harry's pasties, cakes, and candies (the sandwiches lay forgotten). — J. K. Rowling

Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them. — George Eliot

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are. — Alan Watts

Love is like death, it must come to us all, but to each his own unique way and time, sometimes it will be avoided, but never can it be cheated, and never will it be forgotten. — Jacob Grimm

Forgotten Things Quotes

Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time. — Aristotle

Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything. — Aaron Siskind

Health is forgotten until it's the only thing that matters. — Bryan Johnson

Forgotten quote If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Blues is a natural fact, is something that a fellow lives. If you don't live it you don't have it. Young people have forgotten to cry the blues. Now they talk and get lawyers and things. — Big Bill Broonzy

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

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. — Elias Canetti

You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. — Carl Jung

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. — Neil Gaiman

And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring passed out of all knowledge. — J. R. R. Tolkien

If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day. — Alexander Payne

Feeling Forgotten Quotes

Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted. — Fernando Pessoa

The forests are the flag's of Nature. They appeal to all and awaken inspiring universal feelings. Enter the forest and the boundaries of nations are forgotten. It may be that sometime an immortal pine will be the flag of a united and peaceful world. — Enos Mills

Long after you’ve forgotten someone’s voice, you can still remember the sound of their happiness or their sadness. You can feel it in your body. — Anne Michaels

It doesn't matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don't know who you are, or if you've forgotten or misplaced her, then you'll always feel as if you don't belong. Anywhere. — Sarah Ban Breathnach

Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move. — Ayn Rand

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future. — John F. Kennedy

So many people choose silence after the immediate wake of a death out of fear of saying something out of turn or "bringing up bad memories" that bereaved people often feel forgotten. — Mallory Ortberg

When I feel like I'm stuck, I do something - not like I'm Mother Teresa or anything, but there's someone that's forgotten about in your life, all the time. Someone that could use an 'Attaboy' or a 'How you doin' out there. — Bill Murray

Another problem with worry is that it makes you forget your worth. Worry makes you feel worthless, forgotten, and unimportant. — Charles R. Swindoll

Easily Forgotten Quotes

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

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

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

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

You are not easily forgotten. — Greg Behrendt

You Are Not Forgotten Quotes

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

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

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

We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes. — Chris Hedges

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More 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

We live in a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants, in a world that has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. We have solved the mystery of the atom and forgotten the lessons of the Sermon on the Mount. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about dying than we know about living. — Omar N. Bradley

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

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

Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes. — Michel Odent

I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror. — Dorothea Dix

Hate no one, no matter how much they've wronged you. Live humbly, no matter how wealthy you become. Think positively, no matter how hard life is. Give much, even if you've been given little. Keep in touch with the ones who have forgotten you, and forgive who has wronged you, and do not stop praying for the best for those you love. — Ali ibn Abi Talib

If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this? — Iyanla Vanzant

If the desert is holy, it is because it is a forgotten place that allows us to remember the sacred. Perhaps that is why every pilgrimage to the desert is a pilgrimage to the self. There is no place to hide and so we are found. — Terry Tempest Williams

We live, we die, and like the grass and trees, renew ourselves from the soft earth of the grave. Stones crumble and decay, faiths grow old and they are forgotten, but new beliefs are born. The faith of the villages is dust now... but it will grow again... like the trees. — Chief Joseph

The Art of Peace is medicine for a sick world. There is evil and disorder in the world, because people have forgotten that all things emanate from one source. Return to that source and leave behind all self-centered thoughts, petty desires, and anger. Those who are possessed by nothing possess everything. — Morihei Ueshiba

Those who deplore our militants, who exhort patience in the name of a false peace, are in fact supporting segregation and exploitation. They would have social peace at the expense of social and racial justice. They are more concerned with easing racial tension than enforcing racial democracy. — A. Philip Randolph

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. — John Williams

So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying to have something you have done linger in people's memories. — John Towner Williams

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