We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Its really hard to recall the day you became friends with special people.” — michael bassey johnson Copy Share Image
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps 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
A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But… — Giannina Braschi Copy Share Image
There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women. — Alice von Hildebrand Copy Share Image
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness. — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
“Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?” — Ade Santi Copy Share Image
If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness… — Elie Wiesel 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
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just… — Joseph Priestley Copy Share Image
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
“He wrote Véra sheepishly: “Something has happened (only don’t be angry). I can’t remember (for God’s sake, don’t be angry!) I can’t… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many… — Richard Brautigan 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
Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in… — Anandamayi Ma Copy Share Image
Lady of silences Calm and distressed Torn and most whole Rose of memory Rose of forgetfulness Exhausted and life-giving Worried reposeful The… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“I sit alone in a dead world. The wind blows hot and dry, and the dust gathers like particles of memory waiting… — Christopher Pike Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness is not just a vis inertiae, as superficial people believe, but is rather an active ability to suppress, positive in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The rich and luxurious may claim an exclusive right to those pleasures which are capable of being purchased by pelf, in which… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right… — Chaim Herzog Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women — Clarice Stasz Stoll Copy Share Image
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. — Ivo Andric Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥ — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief. — John Milton Copy Share Image
With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's… — Kevin Whately Copy Share Image
