Jack London

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

American Novelist

Zane Grey

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

American Author

William Wordsworth

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

English Poet

Howard Nemerov

Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

American Poet

Sophocles

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Greek Poet

Friedrich Nietzsche

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

German Philosopher

Ryan Tedder

I'm terribly forgetful. I've lost laptops, cell-phones.

American Musician

Claudia Winkleman

I have always been a little bit forgetful.

English Entertainer

Glen Campbell

Kate Nash

English Musician

Refers to accidental memory failures, often for trivial day-to-day things like keys or dates.

Memory Lapses

When someone regularly forgets things, it can imply a consistent trait rather than isolated incidents.

Habitual Forgetfulness

Can convey a slight frustration with someone's recurrent inability to remember.

Mild Annoyance

Highlights a lack of attention to duties or obligations, seen as careless behavior.

Responsible Negligence

Forgetting societal or cultural responsibilities is often viewed with disapproval.

Cultural Expectations

Forgetting what's expected of one's role can seem disrespectful or offensive.

Impression of Disrespect

 and you're afraid that if your forgetfulness becomes known, you'll become part of the feast. The baker has meticulously prepared a small mountain range of a cake, and your job is to sculpt the giant’s age as the chocolate centerpiece. You would love to just count the candles on the cake, but you're much too small to see the top of it.

Can you solve the...

 that get Alzheimer's disease but don't have these mutations how do we understand their disease this is currently a very difficult question because it's hard for us to predict who is actually going to progress from it all into Alzheimer's disease just because you're forgetful doesn't actually mean you're going to get all

Turning back the clock...

 in the relevant matters, and reliable and honest, we'll have a pretty good reason to trust them, because they'll be trustworthy. But if, on the other hand, they're unreliable, we might not. I have friends who are competent and honest, but I would not trust them to post a letter, because they're forgetful.

Onora O'Neill: What we...

 and they are easily lost and forgotten. But by reactivating them during sleep, even without us being aware, it seems like we could make them more stable and less prone to forgetting. That's pretty incredible. Our brains are still active even when we're not. So if you're like me and a bit forgetful,

How sound can hack your...

 to treat his epilepsy. But after the surgery, he couldn't remember any new information for longer than a few minutes. Zombies appear to be pretty forgetful, wouldn't you agree? Absolutely. Between the amygdala-related aggression, and memory deficits from the hippocampus,

Diagnosing a zombie:...

 It will take you at random to one of hundreds of snippets that are in the collection. Here is a knockout poem by Billy Collins called "Forgetfulness." Billy No wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war.

Rives: The Museum of...

 that 25 years later -- that she'd actually knight us. But somehow, she must have had a forgetful memory, I think. Well, God saved her and you got your just reward. Do you like to be called Sir Richard, or how? Nobody's ever called me Sir Richard.

Life at 30,000 feet PIPE...

 and I've always thought that made me weird. And then I noticed that everybody does it. And it's not because we are in denial or because we're forgetful, it's because the people we love, who we've lost, are still so present for us.

We don't "move on" from...

 And then I noticed that everybody does it. And it's not because we are in denial or because we're forgetful, it's because the people we love, who we've lost, are still so present for us.

The messy truth about...

 There's a horror movie in there somewhere. The next poem is called forgetfulness, and it's really just a kind of poetic essay