Forgetfulness Best Quotes

#1. Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition.

Soul Dancer

#2. Though you forget the way to the Temple,
There is one who remembers the way to your door:
Life you may evade, but Death you shall not.
You shall not deny the Stranger.

T. S. Eliot

#3. Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence ...

Sylvia Ashton-Warner

#4. There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

Sophocles

#5. I believe we forget who we are over time, and in our state of forgetfulness we struggle and employ all kinds of learned behaviors that don't necessarily help us or bring us happiness. Each of us has a self that exists undamaged and whole, from the moment we are born waiting to be reclaimed.

Jewel

#6. Oh, am I glad to know that after all these years it still is hard trying to unlove someone; if there's such a thing...

Ahmed Mostafa

#7. Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

Alan Jacobs

#8. For this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.

Plato

#9. She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfulness and in the suggestion of universal comprehension.

Joseph Conrad

#10. There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

Jessamyn West

#11. I can remember much forgetfulness.

Hart Crane

#12. Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.

Carl Holmes

#13. Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#14. Do not forget the Heavenly Father.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. You dump trash. You dump yard waste and old ripped couches that smell like body odor and forgetfulness. You dump cigarette butts and banana peels and hazardous waste. But people?

Autumn Doughton

#16. The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#17. Self-forgetfulness is unattainable as a goal, except as the byproduct of preoccupation with Another's presence, and with his message, his power, and his glory.

John R.W. Stott

#18. Life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Felicia Hemans

#19. 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; death was man's best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free.

Mark Twain

#20. He could find no answer, except life's usual answer to the most complex and insoluble questions. That answer is: live in the needs of the day, that is, find forgetfulness. He

Leo Tolstoy

#21. 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

#22. Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

Mason Cooley

#23. You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

Amit Kalantri

#24. It was no use to tell a person to forget. No matter how hard you tried to put it out of your mind, the hurt would still be there, festering under the forgetfulness, sending poison through your veins.

Mary Schumann

#25. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, "Thou art my refuge.

George MacDonald

#26. 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 ling'ring look behind?

Thomas Gray

#27. Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.

Stacy Schiff

#28. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#29. The breath of song in your remembering eyes cascades fragile reflections of time-steeped sunsets tinting delicate snowflakes with the solitude of a sleeping forest where ancient secrets lie waiting, undisturbed by knowing, tranquil in the forgetfulness of yesterday's silvery silence

Sean Terrence Best

#30. Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Thomas Keating

#31. ... he strove to leave his life in the hands of God, and to forget himself.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#32. To live in the needs of the day, find forgetfulness.

Leo Tolstoy

#33. Passionate - that means to live for the sake of living. But one knows that you all live for sake of experience. Passion, that is self-forgetfulness. But what you all want is self-enrichment.

Thomas Mann

#34. Let us not complain against men because otheir rudeness, their ingratitude, their injustice, their arrogance, their love oself, their forgetfulness oothers. They are so made. Such is their nature.

Jean De La Bruyere

#35. Our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#36. We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

George Sand

#37. It is the forgetfulness of these principles which as made for the anarchy in thinking in so much of the anemic philosophy of our day.

Fulton J. Sheen

#38. The cause of the distress of a living entity is forgetfulness of his relationship with God.

Anonymous

#39. Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

Helen Keller

#40. If happiness comes at all: which is by no means prearranged; it comes by the way, while you are seeking for something else. Something outside yourself, beyond yourself: in a brief absorption of self-forgetfulness.

Caitlin Thomas