Appetite Quote by Eric Hoffer

“In the old days, a man was taught to forget himself. Today it is quite different: he is taught not to forget himself and…

— Natsume Sōseki

At the bottom of the modern man there is always a great thirst for self-forgetfulness, self-distraction . . . and therefore he turns away…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he…

— Viktor E. Frankl

When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

— James Coco

Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without…

— Norman Vincent Peale

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

— Bayazid Bastami

Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await…

— Pope Francis

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but…

— William Hazlitt

“Forgetting! It is a form of suicide, a renunciation of the only good the we truly and ineluctably possess: the past. For if joys…

— Anonymous

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

— Joyce Carol Oates

There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing…

— John Campbell Shairp

“Man is originally characterized by his "search for meaning" rather than his "search for himself." The more he forgets himself—giving himself to a cause…

— Viktor E. Frankl