Forgetfulness quotes

“Like you, I wanted an inconsolable memory. A memory of shadow and stone. Each day I fought, all alone, with all my might, against the terror of no longer knowing the reason to remember. Like you have forgotten.”

Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“- Christina: If you need anything, just call me. I'll come, I'll send you the money.
- Martin: No, you'll forget about me.
- Christina: No, I won't. Why do you think I'll forget?
- Martin: Because you're going away. People always go away so they can forget where they were.”
Christine Forrest - Christina
John Amplas - Martin

“We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.”
Artus de Penguern - Hipolito

“I do not shoot with my hand. He who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind. I do not kill with my gun. He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.”
Idris Elba - Roland

“I know you never lie to me. I believe you. You're not lying. It's worse than lying. You've forgotten.”

Charles Boyer - Gregory Anton

“- Major: It feels like... there's always this thick fog over my memory and I can't see through it.
- Batou: You're lucky. Every single day I get screwed by my memories.”
Scarlett Johansson - Major
Pilou Asbæk - Batou

“No one ever thinks they can forget their first love. But we can.”
Richard Kiley - Arthur Axelrod

“You don't forget the movies, but you forget the details of them.”
Sissy Spacek

“One doesn't easily forget, Herr Baron, an arm torn out by the roots.”

Lionel Atwill - Inspector Krogh

“There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is your to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.”
Rosario Dawson - Mimi Marquez

“I wondered if a memory is something you have or something you've lost.”
Gena Rowlands - Marion

“Always forgive your enemies. Just don't forget their names.”
David O. Selznick

“The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.”
Ebon Moss-Bachrach - Arvel Skeen

“Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.”
Jenna Ortega - Wednesday Addams

“In the beginning everyone is there, but then they forget.”
Caterina Scorsone - Dr. Amelia Shepherd

“It seems to me that Mr. Edison puts his name on everything because he's terrified of being forgotten. But if you want to be remembered, it's simple. Shoot a president. But if you prefer to have what I call a legacy, you leave the world a better place than you found it.”
Michael Shannon - George Westinghouse

“Oh Wanda, I’m incapable of forgetfulness. I remember everything. That’s not an exaggeration, in fact, I’m incapable of exaggeration.”
Paul Bettany - Vision

“Don't ask me about my career - I've forgotten most of it.”
Timothy Dalton

“- Amy Edgar: As soon as you recognize one thing, you may’t unknow it.
- Stephanie Kim: I wish to know, it doesn't matter what.”
Naomi Watts - Amy Edgar
Andrea Bang - Stephanie Kim

“It's not easy to entrust oneself to God's mercy. I know He has a very special capacity for forgetting our mistakes. God forgets, but I don't.”
Jonathan Pryce - Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio

“- Lise Bouvier: Maybe Paris has a way of making people forget.
- Jerry Mulligan: Paris? No. Not this city. It's too real and too beautiful to ever let you forget anything.”
Leslie Caron - Lise Bouvier
Gene Kelly - Jerry Mulligan

“Maybe I'll live so long that I'll forget her. Maybe I'll die trying.”
Orson Welles - Michael O'Hara

“I guess I'm the girl nobody remembers.”
Ingrid Bergman - Alicia Huberman

“- Colin: Are you playing hard to get? I've been waiting over an hour!
- Carol: What for?
- Colin: Well, not for Christmas. We made a date. Remember? We're having supper tonight.
- Carol: Oh, I forgot.
- Colin: Well, next time you forget, maybe you'll let me know.”
John Fraser - Colin
Catherine Deneuve - Carol

“- Balloon Lady: Of course, the grown-ups will all forget by tomorrow.
- Mary Poppins: They always do.”
Dame Angela Lansbury - Balloon Lady
Emily Blunt - Mary Poppins