“Remembrance is a form of meeting. Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.” — Kahlil Gibran 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
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. — Helen Prejean 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
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
Many deeds are done so as to forget another deed: there are also opiate activities. I exist so that another will be… — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
“How little the world would look moral without forgetfulness! A poet might say that God made forgetfulness the guard he placed at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness is a property of all action. The man of action is also without knowledge: he forgets most things in order to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that… — Etienne de La Boetie Copy Share Image
Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
I teach: when pain is there, use it as awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. So,… — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
As any sin passes through its stages from temptation, to toleration, to approval, its name is first euphemized, then avoided, then forgotten.… — J. Budziszewski 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
There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a… — Charles Dickens 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
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
“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
“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
“Please continue praising me and forget all about me the very next day.” — Ahmed Mostafa Copy Share Image
“Forgetfulness is the beginning of happiness as fear is the beginning of wisdom.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image