Forget quotes

Leave behind the past and embrace a new beginning. Explore a collection of meaningful quotes on forgetting to find solace, healing, and the strength to move forward. Illuminate your path with wisdom and inspiration.

Immortality? Mm. Of course. Uh…you spell that with one or two "m"s? I always forget.

- Chloe Decker

I forget very fast and want to record thus simply impress.

- Christa Wolf

I beg of you always to dwell upon the necessity of a thorough understanding of principles, in order to stop the vivacity of his mind, and please do not forget to meditate upon the subject of our discussion.

- Nicolas Malebranche

The important things that in a campaign we talk about, let us not forget that once the election is over.

- Mike Rounds

We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

Perhaps it's more merciful to forget the dead instead of remembering them.

- Jose Bergaman

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

- Jean Jacques Rousseau

All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.

- Irwin Shaw

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

- Benjamin Franklin

Well, most grown-ups forget what it was like to be a kid. I vowed that I would never forget.

- Matt Groening

We will never forget those like my great-grandfather who fought at Vicksburg.

- Roy Barnes

It makes me forget that I'm not going to be a major star and lead female in films whether it was 20 years ago, 10 years ago, five or in the future.

- Pam Grier

Memory is the thing you forget with.

- Alexander Chase

There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

- Woodrow Wilson

I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.

- Yo-Yo Ma

Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

- Doug Coupland

Some movie I was in, I forget which one, some awful little movie, a reviewer said, What is Jessica Walter doing in this movie? And I said, Hello? Trying to make a living?

- Jessica Walter

Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.

- Peter Mayhew

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

- Khalil Gibran

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

- Mark Spitz

Forget about style; worry about results.

- Bobby Orr

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

- Groucho Marx

I am very much aware that if I am getting good press at the moment I could just as easily be getting bad press. I cannot have the good and forget the bad. You have to accept it both ways.

- Damon Hill

The reason there's a question mark on my front door is just in case I forget my address.

- Leslie Nielsen

Let philosophy resolutely aim to be as scientific as possible, but let her not forget her strong kinship with literature.

- Morris Raphael Cohen

Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.

- Sophocles

Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

- Babe Ruth

I am loathe to get married again. I've been married enough; I just prefer to forget it.

- Hattie McDaniel

Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it-don't cheat with it.

- Ernest Hemingway

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.

- Thomas Wolfe