Forgetfulness Quotes

148 Forgetfulness quotes by 128 unique authors

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time. — Friedrich Nietzsche
the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
...it is so silly of people to fancy that old age means crookedness and witheredness and feebleness and sticks and spectacles and rheumatism and forgetfulness!… — George MacDonald
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy… — Jack London
Helped are those who forgive; their reward shall be forgetfulness of every evil done to them. It will be in their power, therefore, to envision… — Alice Walker
So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it… — J.R.R. Tolkien
By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. — Oscar Wilde
Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her… — Thomas Hardy
There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces… — Franz Kafka
This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival. — Roland Barthes
Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.. — Shannon Hale
There is joy in self-forgetfulness. So I try to make the light in others' eyes my sun, the music in others' ears my symphony, the… — Helen Keller
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. — Khalil Gibran
There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and… — Saint Augustine
The really wonderful moments of joy in this world are not the moments of self-satisfaction, but self-forgetfulness. Standing on the edge of the Grand Canyon… — John Piper
I love all things, not because they are passionate or sweet-smelling but because, I don't know, because this ocean is yours, and mine: these buttons… — Pablo Neruda
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. — Ivo Andric
Hinged to forgetfulness like a door, she slowly closed out of sight, and she was the woman I loved, but too many times she slept… — Richard Brautigan
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it… — Jose Saramago
O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep… — William Shakespeare
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory — James Stephens
We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick… — Neil Gaiman
Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape. — Sylvia Plath
The only thing faster than the speed of thought is the speed of forgetfulness. Good thing we have other people to help us remember. — Vera Nazarian

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