Forgetfulness quotes

“You've forgotten what it's like... to be a child.”

Dame Angela Lansbury - Balloon Lady

“Just as in love, there is this illusion, this illusion that you will never be able to forget, the way I had the illusion, faced with Hiroshima, that I would never forget. Just as in love.”
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“Time will pass. Only time. And time will come. A time will come, when we can no longer name what it is that unites us. The name will gradually fade from our memory. Then it will disappear entirely.”
Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“Like you, I have fought with all my might not to forget. Like you, I have forgotten.”

Emmanuelle Riva - Elle

“Some years from now, when I have forgotten you and other romances like this one have recurred through sheer habit, I will remember you as a symbol of love's forgetfulness. This affair will remind me how horrible forgetting is.”

Eiji Okada - Lui

“- Pearl Chavez: And you'll forget about... about tonight, won't you? You'll forget it?
- Jesse McCanles: No, I don't think I'll forget. I don't think I'll ever be able to. I shouldn't have told you the way I felt. It wasn't fair. There I go again, trying to be fair.”
Jennifer Jones - Pearl Chavez
Joseph Cotten - Jesse McCanles

“- Jerry Shepard: Maybe you can help me out here or something, 'cause I'm not sure anymore.
- Katie: You know what you're supposed to do? You're supposed to let yourself off the hook. It doesn't mean that you have to forget.”
Paul William Walker IV - Jerry Shepard
Moon Bloodgood - Katie

“They can rebuild the White House, but they will never forget me. Not ever.”

Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“- Merlin: You will experience episodes, lapses of clarity. You'll be back to normal soon.
- Whiskey: Whoo. I feel like a tornado in a trailer park.”
Mark Strong - Merlin
Pedro Pascal - Whiskey

“Friendship is the most valuable thing a man can have. It's worth more than money, land, horses, or cattle. It might be the only thing you never forget.”
Sam Shepard - James

“By the end all my father could do was ask why my mother wasn't at home, and each time I told him she was dead I had to watch him take that loss like a car wreck. 200,000 men and women develop Alzheimer's each year! What if you could end all that suffering with a single pill? Give me till Monday morning, 48 hours. I'll give you results that'll...” (continue)(continue reading)

Saffron Burrows - Dr. Susan McAlester

“When I manage to forget what happened to me, when there are no mirrors and no people that reminds me, when my mom makes me laugh... in these moments, I have hope.”
Noomi Rapace - Beatrice

“What's the point of being a writer or an artist anyway? Herman Melville wrote fuckin' Moby Dick, he was so poor and forgot by the time he died that in his obituary they called him Henry Melville. You know, like why bother? They're just going to forget our fuckin' names anyway.”
Martin Starr - Joel

“Being dead wasn't a problem, but being forgotten, now that's a bitch. I can't come back if nobody remembers me. I can't come back if nobody's afraid.”
Robert Englund - Freddy Krueger

“- Chihiro: You don't remember your name?
- Haku: No, but for some reason I remember yours.”
Daveigh Chase - Chihiro
Jason Marsden - Haku

“I've spent so much time thinking about all the answers to the problem, that I forget what the problem actually was.”
Kirsten Dunst - Claire Colburn

“- Adele Stanton: Do you remember me?
- Peter Appleton: No, but I'll sure try.”
Laurie Holden - Adele Stanton
Jim Carrey - Peter Appleton

“- Pop Girl: You make me look like a fool in front of my family!
- Cassie Holmes: Don't worry. You won't remember a thing.”

Xiaolu Li - Pop Girl
Dakota Fanning - Cassie Holmes

“It's funny how you forget the things in life that make you happy.”
Charlotte Rampling - Kate Mercer

“- Mary: I've lived for a very long time, Ray. And the one thing I've learned: fate doesn't decide everything. People get to choose.
- John Hancock: And you chose to let me think I was here alone.
- Mary: I didn't think you'd miss what you didn't remember.”
Charlize Theron - Mary
Will Smith - John Hancock

“Bashful, he's the one everybody forgets.”
Beth Daly - Librarian

“There no one else for them take up with except a fat innkeeper who only remembers his name because people shout it at him all day.”

Sir John Hurt - Aragorn

“- John: I can see how you might forget. We were just something for you and your friends to play with.
- Tommy: It's not that easy for us to forget... you gave us so much more to remember.”
Ron Eldard - John
Billy Crudup - Tommy

“Trust? Gentlemen, you seem to have forgotten that our chosen career is politics.”
Tommy Lee Jones - Thaddeus Stevens

“- Paul Sellinger: How far do you think we've gone?
- David Halloran: How am I supposed to know? You're the god damn spy, not me. Don't you guys have a magic manual or something that teaches you all that stuff?
- Paul Sellinger: Yes, we do.
- David Halloran: Did you ever read it?
- Paul Sellinger: I helped write it.
- David Halloran: What did it...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christopher Plummer - Paul Sellinger
Harrison Ford - David Halloran