226 Quotes About Forgotten

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.

...it is sad, of course, to forget.But it is a lonely thing, to be forgotten.To remember when no one else does.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.

If we go down the rabbit hole of our unconsciousness and try to unravel the knotty points of our life story we may encounter a bunch of hidden niceties or emotional stowaways. Forgotten details in the windmill of our mind may daintily reveal, where things might have gone wrong. (“I wonder what went wrong.”)

And none will hear the postman’s knockWithout a quickening of the heart.For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

Even the one moment that you thought was your eternity fades out and is forgotten and dies.

There are many unspeakable words, forgotten, or forbidden.Great thanks to the poets who make them all become reachable.

I stare off into space for a minute. "I just wish my life would go back to the way it was.""Why?""Because I was happy then. Things weren't perfect, but still, I knew where I fit. I knew where I was going.""And you don't feel that way anymore?""No. I feel kind of...lost in the middle of my own life, if that makes any sense.