Forget quotes
1.4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside forget — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"You want something, you dwell upon it consciously for a while, you consciously imagine it coming to the forefront of probabilities, closer to your actuality. Then you drop it like a pebble into Framework 2, forget about it as much as possible for a fortnight, and do this in a certain rhythm."
"They would grow old. They would forget me."
"Forget every touch or sound that did not teach you how to dance"
"My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems."
"And don’t forget: Elvendork! It’s unisex!"
"Do not forget that small daily actions do or undo character."
"Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget."
"I remember the very thing that I do not wish to; I cannot forget the things I wish to forget."
"We easily forget our faults when no one knows them but ourselves."
"It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God."
"You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk."
"What you understand, you know; and what you know, you don't forget."
"There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting."
"Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
"Nobody will ever forget what I've accomplished."
"The danger lies in forgetting."
"I forgot to remember to forget."
"Readers forget that one can critique yet still admire."
"Perhaps it suddenly brought to us the sense of change. Or irresponsibility. But don't forget that, though the people in the twenties seemed like flops, they weren't. Fitzgerald, the rest of them, reckless as they were, drinkers as they were, they worked damn hard and all the time."
"Thanks to the internet, I buy lots of music, but thanks to my easily distracted nature, I forget about half of it!"
