Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo NerudaI am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I've loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough.
Nicholas SparksIt does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.
J. K. RowlingI hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
ConfuciusForget injuries, never forget kindnesses
ConfuciusIt takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone... but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
Kahlil GibranForgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. KennedyA man of honour should never forget what he is, because he sees what others are.
Baltasar GracianForget sex, or politics, or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
Doug CouplandHe who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
AeschylusThe richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.
Cesare PaveseA retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
Elbert HubbardIf you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan PoeHow sweet for those faring badly to forget their misfortunes, even for a short time.
SophoclesNothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
Michel de MontaigneIt is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs, are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Thomas HuxleyDepend upon it, there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance therefore not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.
Arthur Conan DoyleI've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis StevensonHow happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander PopeAnd forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
Kahlil GibranEach of us has a soul, but we forget to value it.
Saint Teresa of AvilaDon't ever prophesy, for if you prophesy wrong nobody will forget it, and if you prophesy right nobody will remember it.
Josh BillingsTell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.
Benjamin FranklinGet on with your worldly activities cheerfully, but do not forget God.
Sai BabaForget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
Doug CouplandConcern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
Albert EinsteinDon't forget to love yourself.
Soren KierkegaardI never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.
Benjamin DisraeliIn this bright future you can't forget your past.
Bob MarleyAuthority forgets a dying king.
Alfred Lord TennysonConcentrate on your job and you will forget your other troubles.
William FeatherElected leaders who forget how they got there, won't the next time.
Malcolm ForbesIf it's hard to remember it'll be difficult to forget.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerDesire makes man forget his real nature and reduces him to be status of a beast.
Sai BabaBlessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Friedrich NietzscheAll my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.
Harry S. TrumanIt is extraordinary that, when you are acquainted with a whole family, you can forget about them.
Gertrude SteinIf the other person injures you, you may forget the injury, but if you injure him you will always remember.
Kahlil GibranIf we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.
Ronald ReaganTime crumbles things, everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.
AristotleTo forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
Friedrich NietzscheForget the past.
Nelson MandelaAmerican business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
Barry GoldwaterForget the harm that anyone has done to you, and forget the good that you have done to others.
Sai BabaIn my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David ThoreauElephants and grandchildren never forget.
Andy RooneyMan should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
Mahatma GandhiYou may forget that you are at every moment totally dependent on God.
C. S. LewisWhat we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously.
Alan WattsRemember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.
Dr. SeussThe good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.
Mother TeresaBeing unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty, than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother TeresaDo not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly.
SophoclesDon'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 RuthI guess what people forget sometimes is that when I write songs, I write them sometimes in about 20 minutes.
Alanis MorissetteWhat I hear I forget. What I see I remember. What I do I understand.
ConfuciusI never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue.
Richard M. NixonDo not forget birthdays. This is in no way a propaganda for a larger population.
Gertrude SteinThe honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
Gilbert K. ChestertonForget injuries, never forget kindness.
Confucius'I can forgive but I cannot forget' is only another way of saying 'I will not forgive'. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward BeecherForget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis WaitleyIf you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading, or do things worth writing.
Benjamin FranklinWhen befriended remember it, when you befriend forget it.
Benjamin FranklinIf we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
Mother TeresaAnger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.
BuddhaI willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
AeschylusDon't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present and future wars.
Franklin D. RooseveltIt will be a bitter pill to her, that is like other bitter pills, it will have two moments ill-flavor and then be swallowed and forgotten.
Jane AustenI try to forget about the expectation that's out there and the audience listening for the next thing, so that I'm not trying to please them. I've spent a huge amount of time not communicating with those folks and denying that they exist.
Chuck PalahniukThus one memory follows another until the waves dash together over our heads and a deep sigh swells the breast which warns us that we have forgotten to breathe in the midst of these pure thoughts.
Max MullerAs long as I live I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.
Arnold Schwarzenegger