i've forgotten more than you'll ever know

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.

We forget what we already have, don

And we forget because we must

Often in life we forget the things we should remember and remember the things we should forget.

We all yearn for what we have lost. But sometimes, we forget what we have.

We live in an age when we have forgotten what life is all about.

We all have neglected opportunities to deplore.

And we forget because we must and not because we will.

We forget what we have heard if we do not write it down.

Every man has forgotten who he is. One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God; but thou shalt not know thyself.
We are all under the same mental calamity; we have all forgotten our names. We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful moment we remember that we forget.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

Life cannot go on without a great deal of forgetting.