The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free. — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
“Not too many professions out there that value forgetfulness. Prostitution, maybe. Politics, of course.” — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God… — Robert Owen Copy Share Image
“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love… — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
“If you haven’t figured it out yet, an absolutely certain way to lose something as quickly as possible is to forget the… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain. — Rajneesh 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
I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
If e'er I win a parting token, 'Tis something that has lost its power-- A chain that has been used and broken,… — Nathaniel Parker Willis 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
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
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
So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down… — William Shakespeare 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
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind… — Syncletica of Alexandria Copy Share Image
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is a clean lotion that heals the wounds of misunderstandings! To iron out the differences; get the painful sores dressed up;… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness.” — John Piper Copy Share Image
There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing. — Tristan Prettyman Copy Share Image
“We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or… — Neil Gaiman 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
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
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
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
“Forgetfulness in people might wound, their ingratitude corrode, but this voice, pouring endlessly, year in year out, would take whatever it might… — Virginia Woolf 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
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
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
