There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring…

“The ear may be a more open organ than the eye when it comes to the pleasure of words.”

— Charles McNair

We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for…

— Glen Duncan

When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the…

— Sophocles

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

— Thomas Keating

“Being alone will show you who you really are, and if you cannot get-on positively as the sole master of your space in that…

— Bryant McGill

“Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Anonymous

“Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?”

— Ade Santi

What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.

— Anonymous

... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to…

— Plato

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of…

— Zane Grey

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be…

— Patrick Gale

There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to…

— Rand Paul

“Who was it said, ‘We forget because we must’? He was right.”

— L.M. Montgomery

“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ponder was…

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

— Christina Stead