The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny. — James Carroll Copy Share Image
“until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Please continue praising me and forget all about me the very next day.” — Ahmed Mostafa 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
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor… — Thomas Gray Copy Share Image
“Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such… — Ahmed Mostafa 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
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Anonymous 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
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
In the one instance, the dreamerloses sight of this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestionsuntilhe finds the incitamentum, or first… — Edgar Allan Poe 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
Keeping a [journal] need not be a major chore-just a few minutes of notes each day can be valuable. Writing crystallizes insights,… — Roger N. Walsh 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
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
Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power,… — Alice Walker 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
Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into… — Thomas Hardy 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
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
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
“I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah 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
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image