Forgetfulness Quotes

148 quotes by 133 authors

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. — Ambrose Bierce
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made.… — Jean de la Bruyere
O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my… — William Shakespeare
The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and… — Rajneesh
Right awareness is awareness of one's own being in its totality: all that is good and all that is bad. But as you become aware,… — Rajneesh
Man ordinarily is a robot. He lives apparently awake, but not really. He walks, he talks, he acts, but it is all as if in… — Rajneesh
Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will… — May Sarton
Don't you ever forget that in the end, our future is tied to people. — William J. Clinton
I never forgive, but I always forget. — Arthur Balfour
Women forget all the things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. — Zora Neale Hurston
If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as… — Rajneesh
Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. — Helen Prejean
It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly… — Etienne de La Boetie
What I have done is worthy of nothing but silence and forgetfulness, but what God has done for me is worthy of everlasting and thankful… — Joseph Hall
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness… — Sufyan al-Thawri
In this world we are in precarious position, balanced midway between material and spiritual hungers. We find heaven to be a delicate state of consciousness… — Harold Klemp
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free. — Margot Livesey
We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude. When I return… — Joan Halifax

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