44 Forgotten Quotes

In a world brimming with words, some quotes capture the essence of wisdom, emotion, and inspiration brilliantly yet remain largely uncelebrated. While many popular quotes are repeatedly referenced, numerous gems have quietly faded into the background, awaiting rediscovery. This collection of the top 44 forgotten quotes seeks to bring these hidden treasures back into the light, offering poignant insights and timeless reflections that deserve their moment in the sun once more. Dive in to unearth these overlooked marvels, each with the potential to resonate deeply and leave a lasting imprint on your soul.

1. “Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.” - W.H. Auden

2. “Our great mistake in education is, as it seems to me, the worship of book-learning–the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind. The children in our elementary schools are wearied by the mechanical act of writing, and the interminable intricacies of spelling; they are oppressed by columns of dates, by lists of kings and places, which convey no definite idea to their minds, and have no near relation to their daily wants and occupations; while in our public schools the same unfortunate results are produced by the weary monotony of Latin and Greek grammar. We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children–to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavor to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn. What does it matter if the pupil know a little more or a little less? A boy who leaves school knowing much, but hating his lessons, will soon have forgotten almost all he ever learned; while another who had acquired a thirst for knowledge, even if he had learned little, would soon teach himself more than the first ever knew.” - John Lubbock

3. “If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.” - Edgar Allan Poe

4. “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

5. “To be able to forget means sanity.” - Jack London

6. “It is often advantageous to forget. Forget your wincing humiliations, forget life's blows, and get on. For blocks in every direction, down every street in the city, people not yet old enough to have lines on their foreheads were laughing away memory, warmly ensconced in shrines of forgetfulness. Those who followed the word of God and those who preferred what the priests called "hoodoo" alike. People everywhere forgetting with drink or forgetting with religion or forgetting with the numbing quality of their many heaps of things. They looked forward and imagined rosy tomorrows, and gave up whatever horrors heckled their dreams, and listened to the pretty stories of whomever ruled their pulpit.” - Anna Godbersen

7. “People forget what they want to forget.” - Fuyumi Soryo (惣領 冬実)

8. “You all say the same thing. When something bad happens, everyone tells you to forget about it. But, I don't think you can forget that easily. You may be able to pretend you've forgotten, but I don't think anyone can completely forget.” - Fuyumi Soryo (惣領 冬実)

9. “I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.” - Mitch Albom

10. “The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember.” - Vera Nazarian

11. “El margen sabe lo que el centro olvida, seguramente porque la memoria es el poder del vencido. El triunfador sabe que, como decía Nietzsche, "para ser feliz hay que olvidar", pero ese olvido, aunque le haga feliz, no le hace verdadero.” - Reyes Mate

12. “It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.” - John Steinbeck

13. “Meski berjuang keras untuk tidak memikirkan dia, aku tidak berjuang untuk melupakan.” - Stephenie Meyer

14. “There is nothing worse, is there," she said, "than a past that has never been fully dealt with. One can convince oneself, that it is all safely in the past and forgotten about, but the very fact that we can tell ourselves that it is forgotten proves that it is not.” - Mary Balogh

15. “The trick was forgetting about what she had lost ...and learning to go on with what she had left.” - Lisa Kleypas

16. “Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.” - Alice Hoffman

17. “You forget all of it anyway. First, you forget everything you learned-the dates of the Hay-Herran Treaty and Pythagorean Theorem. You especially forget everything you didn't really learn, but just memorized the night before. You forget the names of all but one or two of your teachers, and eventually you'll forget those, too. You forget your junior class schedule and where you used to sit and your best friend's home phone number and the lyrics to that song you must have played a million times. For me, it was something by Simon & Garfunkel. Who knows what it will be for you? And eventually, but slowly, oh so slowly, you forget your humiliations-even the ones that seemed indelible just fade away. You forget who was cool and who was not, who was pretty, smart, athletic, and not. Who went to a good college. Who threw the best parties Who could get you pot. You forget all of them. Even the ones you said you loved, and even the ones you actually did. They're the last to go. And then once you've forgotten enough, you love someone else.” - Gabrielle Zevin

18. “You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same.” - Kurt Vonnegut

19. “She'll soon forget.""Caddy," said Saffron impatiently, "she is headmistress of the private school! She's probably never forgotten anything in her whole life!” - Hilary McKay

20. “If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it, now. Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it. Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you to get what you want.” - Paulo Coelho

21. “Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.” - H. Rider Haggard

22. “You don't need to know my name. You'll forget it soon enough.” - Norihiro Yagi

23. “You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible youmight even forget yourself.” - Charles Yu

24. “لا تلوم امرأة بيوم على نسيانك ...فقط تفقد ماجعلها بالمقام الاول تقبل على فعل ذلك فالمرأة التي تقبل على النسيان لهي حقا امرأة مصدومه .” - ايناس البداوي

25. “I could forget that part, but it had to have been true.” - Deb Caletti

26. “Nothing fixes a thing so intently in the memory as the wish to forget it” - Cat Patrick

27. “It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.” - Markus Zusak

28. “In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears.” - Milan Kundera

29. “Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it in summer school” - Josh Stern

30. “To be forgotten by the one to whom you never forget is the worst thing ever happens.” - Zubair Ahmed

31. “I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.” - Henry Miller

32. “She had to go on this quest. The fate of the world might depend on it. But part of him wanted to say: Forget the world. He didn’t want to be without her.” - Rick Riordan

33. “Madoka: Won't anyone notice that Mami-san is dead?Homura: Mami Tomoe's only relatives are distant relations. It will be quite some time before anyone files a missing persons report. When one dies on that side of the wards, not even a body is left behind. She'll wind up forever a "missing person"... That is what happens to magical girls in the end.Madoka: ...That's too cruel! Mami-san has been fighting all alone for a long time for everyone's sake! For no one to even notice that she's gone... That's just too lonely a fate...Homura: It is just that kind of contract that gives us the power in the first place. It isn't for anyone else's sake. We fight on for the sake of our own prayer. So for no one to notice... for the world to forget us... That is just something we have to accept.” - Magica Quartet

34. “Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.” - Carl Jung

35. “We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.” - Dejan Stojanovic

36. “We stood, holding each other's faces, memorising every last detail. I was deperate with my own need to capture this last, lingering moment, desperate to forget the horrible sink at the pit of my stomach telling me all this would be lost forever once they pulled the chip out. Please don't let me forget.” - Heather Anastasiu

37. “I knew that I would know more dead people. The bodies pile up. Could there be a space in my memory for each of them, or would I forget a little of Alaska every day for the rest of my life?” - John Green

38. “I don't think people realize, when they're just getting started on an eating disorder or even when they're in the grip of one, that it is not something that you just "get over." For the vast majority of eating-disordered people, it is something that will haunt you for the rest of your life. You may change your behavior, change your beliefs about yourself and your body, give up that particular way of coping in the world. You may learn, as I have, that you would rather be a human than a human's thin shell. You may get well. But you never forget.” - Marya Hornbacher

39. “Preach the Gospel, die, and be forgotten.” - Count of Zinzendorf

40. “Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.” - Paula Danziger

41. “Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent.” - Andrew Fukuda

42. “I Can Forget your past , But your Past will not forget you ....” - Parvez3786

43. “Some people love and forgetSome forget and loveWhile some don't love at allBut still remember whom they loved” - Amit Abraham

44. “A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day.” - Susan Abulhawa