Quotes of: Forget-the-past Keyword

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

The Godfather

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

Gilead

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Grace

Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.

The Good Thief

...the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword." "...a ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.

A Game of Thrones

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.

Heart of Darkness

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

On the Heights of Despair

The pile of stones thus marks both an act of deliberate remembrance, and an act of deliberate forgetting. They're fond of paradox in that region.

The Blind Assassin

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I’m on parole, that I’m not really free.

Bad Behavior

But for Mozart love is only the litmus test. To determine whether one is truly free or not.

Before I Forget

[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Sometimes you forget how much you love someone, until you realize their smile is like a spotlight shined on your heart.

Bring Me Home

Maybe that’s why I was so afraid of Sasha’s love. With him comes the remembering part that I was so good at forgetting. ~Piper - 'Breathe Me

Breathe Me

The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time; but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.

Bruiser

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.

The Bet

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Beatrice and Virgil

Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history.

August Wilson

My entire life is dedicated to music, and at my age, that makes a lot of years! But all the work and dedication is only that I'm able to forget myself and let the music do the 'talking.'

John McLaughlin

We all get stuck. We all lose ourselves a little bit in a fantasy or in our jobs and forget how we feel about other things. It's really important to check yourself, to spend some time alone.

Amanda Seyfried

Ants can live together in solidarity and forget themselves in the community. In a normative capitalist society, everyone is an egoist. In the ants' civilization, you are part of the group; you don't live for yourself alone.

Bernard Werber

I have heard, 'Never go to bed angry,' and that makes sense. Unless you're always checking yourself, a grudge or something small can break apart a relationship, and you start to forget what is so amazing about your partner.

Diplo