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
To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I… — Marie Bashkirtseff 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
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears… — Helen Keller 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
Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥ — Everett Ruess 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
If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something… — Caitlin Thomas Copy Share Image
The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
Gaiety is forgetfulness of the self, melancholy is memory of the self: in that state the soul feels all the power of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer… — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first,… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of… — David Truman Copy Share Image
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language… — Hans-Georg Gadamer 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
Happiness lies outside yourself, is achieved through interacting with others. Self-forgetfulness should be one's goal, not self-absorption. The male, capable of only… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he… — Henri Frederic Amiel 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
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
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the… — James Beattie Copy Share Image
My canvas soothes me into forgetfulness of the scene of turmoil and folly - and worse - of the scene around me.… — John Constable Copy Share Image
“A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity,… — Michael Bassey Johnson 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
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
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
“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
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 AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget… — Neville Goddard 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
“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
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Strange and wonderful… — D. H. Lawrence 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
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
One should hate very little, because it's extremely fatiguing. One should despise much, forgive often and never forget. Pardon does not bring… — Sarah Bernhardt 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
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
