Forgetfulness Quotes

Give me to drink mandragora.

— William Shakespeare

Quit the world, and the world forgets you.

— Benjamin Disraeli

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

— C. S. Lewis

I can remember much forgetfulness.

— Hart Crane

“Time makes us forget.”

— Khaled Hosseini

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

— Alexander Pope

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

— Christina Stead

Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.

— Robert Henry Newell

Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget--lest we forget!

— Rudyard Kipling

I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems.

— Hina Khan

“The wind taught me never to forget old friends, by blowing them back to me.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

— Margery Wilson

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Forgiveness isn't the issue; forgetfulness takes us back to square one.

— Ralph Rainney

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

— Charles Simmons

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

— John Climacus

“It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy…

— Fulton J. Sheen

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

— Sylvia Plath

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our…

— Thomas Mann

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

— Ade Santi

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

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

— Henry David Thoreau

“I would wonder if forgetfulness is more a product of convenience than cognitive function.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

— Ambrose Bierce

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

The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which…

— Anonymous

The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the…

— Cesar Aira

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours…

— Clara Schumann

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the…

— John Muir

...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and…

— George MacDonald

Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been…

— Jose Saramago

Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power,…

— Alice Walker

“Look around you and look at yourself: the world is swarming with assassins, that is, people who allow themselves to forget those…

— Amélie Nothomb

Life is like a garden. Quite naturally, leaves wither and flowers fade. Only if we clear the decay of the past then…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

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

The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is…

— George MacDonald

To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is…

— Fernando Pessoa

Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you…

— Sri Chinmoy

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of…

— Jack London

Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a…

— Edward Bellamy