forgotten quotes

For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog isbetter thana dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:4^5.

There is always a forgotten thing, And love is not secure.

- G(ilbert) K(eith) Chesterton
Ballad of the White Horse, bk.3.

Evil people†you never forget them. And that's the aim of any actressnever to be forgotten.

- Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis Davis
  On her favourite character roles. In the NewYork State Theater programme,  Jun.

It is not what they built. It is what they knocked down. It is not the houses. It is the spaces between the houses. It isnotthestreetsthatexist.It isthestreetsthat no longer exist. It is not your memories which haunt you. It is not what you have written down. It is what you have forgotten, what you must forget. What you must go on forgetting all your life.

-James Fenton
  'A German Requiem'.

Ich bin Schriftsteller von Beruf. Ich versuche, gegen die vergehende Zeit anzuschreiben, damit dasVergangene nicht unbekannt bleibt. I am a writer by profession. I seek in my writing to hold back time so that the past is not forgotten.

- Gu«  nter Wilhelm Grass
  Denkzettel: Politische Reden und  Aufsa«  tze.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. 435

- Randall Jarrell
Introduction to Christina Stead  The Man Who Loved Children (1965).

   Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

- B(urrhus) F(rederic) Skinner
  In New Scientist, 21 May.

   The men, the music piercing that solitude And silence, told me truths I had not dreamed, And have forgotten since their beauty passed.

- (Philip) Edward Thomas
  'Tears'.