„Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?“

„Well…… That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now.“

—  Aldous Huxley, kniha Island

Zdroj: Island

„And for a second, just for a second I forget. I forget that this isn't real.“

—  Jenny Han, kniha To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Zdroj: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

„I cover my face with my arms because this isn't happening. It isn't possible. For someone to make Peeta forget he loves me… no one can do that.“

—  Suzanne Collins, kniha Mockingjay

Zdroj: Mockingjay

„No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.“

—  Alan Moore, V jako Vendeta

Zdroj: V for Vendetta

„The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.“

—  John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor 1838 - 1923

Vol. II, bk. 4, ch. 2.
Recollections (1917)

„You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it.“

—  Alan Moore, V jako Vendeta

Zdroj: V for Vendetta

„A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing“

—  Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Zdroj: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

„I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.“

—  Nick Hornby, kniha High Fidelity

Zdroj: High Fidelity

„Never forget what you would rather forget!“

—  Fausto Cercignani Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941

Examples of self-translation (c. 2004), Quotes - Zitate - Citations - Citazioni

„We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.“

—  Joan Didion, kniha Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Zdroj: Slouching Towards Bethlehem

„Never forget who you are, the rest of the world will not, wear it like armor andit can never be used to hurt you. - Tyrion Lannister“

—  George Raymond Richard Martin American writer, screenwriter and television producer 1948

„[With reference to a 'how to date' book] Because you've been on dates where y'know, you forget to open your eyes and wear pants and speak English.“

—  David Cross American comedian, writer and actor 1964

The Pride is Back

„A fine thing: suddenly to forget about one’s history, one’s past, to stop feeling that one’s present happiness is endangered by what one used to be.“

—  Peter Handke Austrian writer, playwright and film director 1942

Zdroj: Das Gewicht der Welt [The Weight of the World], p. 7

„Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.“

—  Fernando Pessoa, kniha The Education Of the Stoic

Ibid., p. 18.
The Education of the Stoic

„Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.“

—  Samuel Butler novelist 1835 - 1902

Antithesis
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part IV - Memory and Design

„You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget.“

—  Cormac McCarthy, kniha Cesta

Zdroj: The Road

„You forget what you want to remember and remember what you would prefer to forget.“

—  Henning Mankell, kniha The Troubled Man

Zdroj: The Troubled Man

„What does one do when faced with an unknown? Turn away and forget about it? In this case, two factors negated that possibility.“

—  Robert Monroe American founder of The Monroe Institute 1915 - 1995

Journeys Out of the Body (1971), Chapter 2. Search and Research

„The rich are inebriate in another way and cannot contrive to grasp these frenzied longings for security. To be rich is another form of intoxication: it spells forgetfulness. In fact, that is what one wants riches for: to forget.“

—  Louis-ferdinand Céline, kniha Cesta do hlubin noci

Journey to the End of the Night (1932)