Forgetful Nature Quotes

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.

I somehow can't remember numbers, names, and faces. I forget very easily.

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

I'm not a big film buff; I like watching films, but I tend to forget them.

It is fair to say that I am generally very bad at keeping in touch - with everyone. When I read a text, my brain seems to think that I have replied to it, and so I am often genuinely surprised when people tell me I haven't.

I have an amazing ability to forget.

Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.

I'm the kind of guy who, I need a watch that tells me what day it is. I need to know it's Friday on my watch. I need to look at it and go, 'Friday today.' Tomorrow I will not know it's Saturday until I look at my watch. My watchband broke, I was crippled. I have no concept of time, I have no concept of dates.

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

I really don't retain information - by the time I arrive wherever I'm going, I already forget what it is that I wanted to say.

People only remember what they want to remember.

If I'm home and I come up with something, I'll try to record it, but a lot of the time I'll forget to. A lot of things go off into space and never come back 'cause I just don't remember them.

I have a terrible memory because I'm not interested in the past. It's done, it's done.