"When the horror recedes and the world resumes……" — Karen Armstrong
"When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again."
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Karen Armstrong
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105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong has 105 quotes on this site.
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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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More Cannot Forget Quotes
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the…
— Aeschylus
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
— Bill T. Jones
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Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.
— Rajneesh
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I heard one cry in the night, and I heard one laugh afterwards. If I cannot forget that, I shall…
— M. R. James
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We cannot describe sound, but we cannot forget it either.
— Igor Stravinsky
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I AM is a feeling of permanent awareness. The very center of consciousness is the feeling of I AM. I…
— Neville Goddard
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Can you stop your memory on a dime, put it in reverse, and spin it in another direction the way…
— Lewis B. Smedes
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In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against…
— Aeschylus
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In this time of budget cuts, we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and…
— Tim Bishop
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A person cannot forget someone who is good to them.
— Bruce Lee
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