Forgetting Quotes

643 quotes by 531 authors

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. — Elbert Hubbard
Men live by forgetting and woman live on memories. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it. — Mark Twain
Forgetting is woman's first and greatest art. — Richard Aldington
I've decided that perhaps I'm bulimic and just keep forgetting to purge. — Paula Poundstone
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh… — William Wordsworth
The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. — D. H. Lawrence
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. — Arthur Koestler
You are the witness of the three bodies: the gross, the subtle, and the causal, and of the three times: past, present and future, and… — Ramana Maharshi
Forget the ones that forget you. — Wiz Khalifa
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. — Natalie Goldberg
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. — Milan Kundera
Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a… — Oliver Sacks
A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness… — George Washington Carver
We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do. — Oswald Chambers
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we… — Dean Koontz
As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most… — Eugene Ionesco
Some spiritual traditions view the moment of birth as a passage from a state of wholeness and knowledge to a state of forgetting. In this… — Bernie Siegel
How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation… — Lottie Moon
If you feel "stuck" today, you may want to examine what you're holding on to. Be willing let go of past disappointments by choosing forgiveness.… — Joel Osteen

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