Being Forgotten Quotes

“This is perhaps the saddest experience in the demise of love and the most difficult for the imagination to encompass: to come to know that someone who loved you once now regards you as boring and annoying and unimportant. Sheer hatred might even be preferred to this.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

“I’ve often thought about the process of being forgotten,” Ramboz said. “First you die. Then the people who knew you and can tell your stories die. Then those people die. When your stories die with them - that’s when you’re finally and truly gone.”
― Margaret Atwood, Fourteen Days

“What remains of the world at the end?” She asked him.
“The noise of machines, newspapers, bombs, the craziness in the big cities, all of this will be forgotten tomorrow. And then, what remains? What remains, my dear, will never be the world, but only the gods.”
― Ryan Gelpke, Peruvian Nights