Quotes about Neglect

Caring about what you are doing is considered either unimportant or taken for granted.

What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or won’t seem important at all.

What we hate, what we fear, is being ignored.

Yes, forgotten by all else, but not by us.

Embraces do not matter; they merely indicate the will to love and may as well be followed by defeat as victory. But disregard means that now there needs to be no straining of the eyes, no stretching forth of the hands, no pressing of the lips, because theirs is such a union that they are no longer aware of the division of their flesh.

To be forgotten. The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.

The Atomic Theory and the Periodic Law have been given prominence, since their neglect unfailingly leads to obscurity and triviality.

Normally, we do not so much look at things as overlook them.

In considering what Tess was not, he overlooked what she was, and forgot that the defective can be more than the entire

[M]ost of what happens actually is forgotten.

Education has been a neglected child globally; it has been seen as a national problem and has not really attracted much attention. Outside of the education bubble, I do not think that people are really aware of the true scale of the problem.

Indeed, it is sometimes almost as if the problem had to be forgotten to be solved.

What I cannot love, I overlook.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

The world forgetting by the world forgot.