Forgetfulness Quotes

148 Forgetfulness quotes by 128 unique authors

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift. — Robert Green Ingersoll
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal… — David Truman
The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real… — Hans-Georg Gadamer
There are three influences which appear to Us to have the chief place in effecting this downgrade movement of society. These are-first, the distaste for… — Pope Leo XIII
It is painful to be consciously of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness. I am not afraid to live on and on,… — Mary Antin
I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. — Chaim Herzog
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness. — Arthur Helps
If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in… — Arthur Machen
Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls. — Mark Dever
To penetrate into Italy is like a most fascinating act of self-discovery-back, back down the old ways of time. Â Strange and wonderful chords awake… — D. H. Lawrence
Wherever God may keep you at any time, from there itself must you undertake the pilgrimage to God-realization. In all forms, in action and non-action… — Anandamayi Ma
To me there is in happiness an element of self-forgetfulness. You lose yourself in something outside yourself when you are happy; just as when you… — Joseph Priestley
I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I may forget who I am,… — Neville Goddard
The Finns also have a bent for drink, even though there is no wine here whatsoever, except for illicit tavern keeping, which is harshly suppressed.… — Unknown Author
I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the end close their books and… — Ernst Bacon
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to write and tell… — Isabel Allende
I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution. — Robert Byrd
A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not… — Giannina Braschi
There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women. — Alice von Hildebrand
It belongs to small-mindedness to be unable to bear either honor or dishonor, either good fortune or bad, but to be filled with conceit when… — Aristotle
For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing… — Thomas Gray
Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness. — Peter Kreeft
And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing… — E E Cummings
Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation. — Ernest Renan
But what after all, behind appearance, is the seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself, returning to itself,… — Sri Aurobindo

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