Forgotten Things Quotes

• There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.

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  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Memories   Dark   Past  

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Fellowship of the Ring: Being the First Part of The Lord of the Rings”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  2024

• We've outsourced our memories to digital devices, and the result is that we no longer trust our memories. We see every small forgotten thing as evidence that they're failing us.

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  Joshua Foer

  Memories   Forgotten Things   Digital  

  3887

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

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  Aaron Siskind

  Inspirational   Inspiring   Photography  

  4713

• You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

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  Carl Jung

  Simple   Forgotten Things   Finding Yourself  

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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• Dreams are but interludes that fancy makes... Sometimes forgotten things, long cast behind Rush forward in the brain, and come to mind.

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  John Dryden

  Dream   Forgotten Things   Long  

  4575

• Into every empty corner, into all forgotten things and nooks, nature struggles to pour life, pouring life into the dead, life into life itself.

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  Henry Beston

  Nature   Struggle   Forgotten Things  

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.28, David R. Godine Publisher

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• In a dancer, there is a reverence for such forgotten things as the miracle of the small beautiful bones and their delicate strength.

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  Martha Graham

  Beautiful   Dance   Forgotten Things  

  Martha Graham (1991). “Blood Memory”, Washington Square Press

  1794

• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

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  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories   Regret   Grief  

  2202

• Many forgotten things live still in children's tales.

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  Alison Croggon

  Children   Forgotten Things   Tales  

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