Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

Forgive me that I felt forsaken,
That grief and angst was all I knew.
Forgive me that I kept mistaking
Too many other men for you.

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

I do remember, and then when I try to remember, I forget.

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.

Out of my ignorance, I called you a homeland and I forgot homelands are taken away.

And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all.

If my name were Mememem, and I had just ran into someone who should have known my name but couldn’t recall it, I’d probably say, “I can’t believe you don’t remememember my name.

Ce que j'ai appris, je l'ai oublié ; ce que je sais, je l'ai inventé.

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.

To see is to forget the name of the thing one sees.

What I forget not only ceases to exist, but never really existed in the first place.

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no
longer interested in anything but figures..