We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving,… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life. — Baker Brownell Copy Share Image
“Life is about peeking through the veil of forgetfulness. What is hidden awakens the joy of revealing it.” — Gordana Biernat Copy Share Image
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the… — Robert Byrd Copy Share Image
“Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
“A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity,… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end… — Ernst Bacon Copy Share Image
Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night… — R. A. Lafferty Copy Share Image
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition of our existence. If the… — Sholem Asch Copy Share Image
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
To forget is the great secret of strong creative natures; to forget is the way nature herself who knows no past and… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
“I center down - I retreat, not inside myself, but outside myself. ... Self-forgetfulness is tremendously invigorating. I wonder if we don't… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing… — Sufyan al-Thawri Copy Share Image
“All the girls feared their Father less than they did their Mother, because she sometimes remembered things and he did not. Lord… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of… — Xenophon Copy Share Image
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Forgetting: that is a divine capacity. And whoever aspires to the heights and wants to fly must cast off much that is… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language… — Hans-Georg Gadamer Copy Share Image
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
“Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
“Five minutes ago escapes him as he chases 1934, unaware of the present beauty out the window, the banks of windswept snow—… — Anthony Walton Copy Share Image
The Holocaust is a great warning to us all. We shall never forget our sisters and brothers. We have to ensure it… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself,… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it… — Frithjof Schuon Copy Share Image
