Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. — Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Please continue praising me and forget all about me the very next day.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“Remembrance is a form of meeting. Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” — Kahlil Gibran Copy Share Image
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live.… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently… — George will Copy Share Image
“Our damnable memory is a sieve. It wants to survive. And survival is only possible through forgetfulness.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the… — Cesar Aira Copy Share Image
Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours… — Clara Schumann Copy Share Image
In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him… — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the… — John Muir Copy Share Image
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Spiritual leaders teach that waking up is a process, that it doesn't just happen once and for all, but must occur again… — M. J. Ryan Copy Share Image
“In this chapter I restrict myself to exploring the nature of the amnesia which is reported between personality states in most people… — John Morton Copy Share Image
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing. It would take us… — William James Copy Share Image
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness, — Mia Couto Copy Share Image
“Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.” — michael bassey johnson Copy Share Image
