Forgetfulness Quotes

148 Forgetfulness quotes by 128 unique authors

To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is all that matters… — Fernando Pessoa
But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness;… — Mark Twain
This is the secret of life: the self lives only by dying, finds its identity (and its happiness) only by self-forgetfulness, self-giving, self-sacrifice, and agape… — Peter Kreeft
Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical? — Victor Hugo
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already… — Denis Diderot
For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious,… — Louisa May Alcott
Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you? — Yann Martel
Everything he had ever done that had been better left undone. Every lie he had told — told to himself, or told to others. Every… — Neil Gaiman
Sometimes, it is true, a sense of isolation enfolds me like a cold mist as I sit alone and wait at life’s shut gate. Beyond… — Helen Keller
In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross… — Elias Lyman Magoon
Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth. — Ramana Maharshi
When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self. — Ben Okri
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state — Thomas Mann
She (Helen) threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills — Homer
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
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard… — James Beattie
Forgiveness isn't the issue; forgetfulness takes us back to square one. — Unknown Author
History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women — Unknown Author
Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfulness, not by self-congratulation. — John Stott
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption. — Unknown Author
Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of manare the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments. — Unknown Author

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