Quotes About Forgetting The World

#1. Intoxicating joy it is for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, the world once seemed to me.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.

Lottie Moon

#3. All the wickedness in the world begins with an act of forgetting.

Mark Buchanan

#4. They say every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

By forgetting. We cannot keep in mind too many things. There is only the present and nothing to remember.

Jeanette Winterson

#5. ...forgetting and perfecting freely, with open hand giving back to the world the gifts received, thus it is that the Ego stands in the current of life's events. Because a man bears this and no other Ego he has particular experiences, out of which certain deeds--and misdeeds--issue.

Hermann Poppelbaum

#6. I like this other world, this forgetting of myself. The actor works in order to escape, not to find himself. You become an actor by leaving yourself, and then you have to keep acting. How tragic!

Sylvia Kristel

#7. Future joys are like tropical shores; like a fragrant breeze, they extend their innate softness to the immense inland world of past experience, and we are lulled by this intoxication into forgetting the unseen horizons beyond.

Gustave Flaubert

#8. Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Albert J. Nock

#9. There is too little idea of personal responsibility; too much of "the world owes me a living," forgetting that if the world does owe you a living, you must be your own collector.

Theodore Newton Vail

#10. How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#11. Ever since the gods created the world, mortals have been forgetting from where their blessings come.

Megan Whalen Turner

#12. We are turning against boys and forgetting a simple truth: that the energy, competitiveness, and corporal daring of normal, decent males is responsible for much of what is right in the world.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#13. Forgetting doesn't mean it never happened; it means not dealing with the consequences.

Laura Thalassa

#14. We are forgetting to live in this world because we are always getting ready to live in the next world.

Debasish Mridha

#15. The world always had more details than you could remember, more than you could even see, and a thousand times more than you could ever write down. You were always deleting and forgetting far more than you could express in words.

Scott Westerfeld

#16. If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee.
If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth.
Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy.

Rumi

#17. I have this really bad habit of doing things on the Internet and forgetting that the whole world is going to see it.

Maisie Williams

#18. There's nothing better than going to the movies and going into another world, and forgetting about everything that's happening outside.

Warwick Davis

#19. The Secret of Happiness lies in looking at all the wonders of the world and never forgetting the two drops of oil in the spoon.

Paulo Coelho

#20. They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them

Nicolas Barreau

#21. The people of your world are forgetting their foundations. Discernment erodes and muddies all waters, no matter how pure.

Wayne Thomas Batson

#22. You're looking for the light,
Forgetting
You have an astonishing light,
inside you,
which can enlighten the whole world.

Debasish Mridha

#23. The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

Daniel J. Levitin

#24. You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

James Van Der Beek

#25. The world is a peaceful place.
We make it hateful by forgetting our grace.

Debasish Mridha

#26. And what does that signify to you? he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a mental patient.

Joanne Greenberg

#27. No matter what they say in the conferences and symposiums about poverty and hunger in the world. At the end, they are the first one forgetting us.

M.F. Moonzajer

#28. I'll live to be one year younger, because I can't stand the idea of a world without you in it, and die buried beneath an avalanche of my own books.

Lance Olsen

#29. People become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World

Paulo Coelho

#30. We're all too apt to think that things are as we feel them to be, forgetting that they have an objective value apart from what we feel about them. An embittered mind colors the world black for its owner yet that does not alter the fact that the world is a treasure house of beauty and love.

Elizabeth Goudge

#31. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind!
Each pray'r accepted, and each wish resign'd

Alexander Pope

#32. Do your actions in the world, without forgetting that your find goal in life is to break free from all bondage and limitations. Always 'remember that you have a higher goal to attain.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#33. The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.

John Marsden

#34. The world was almost at the point of forgetting what a fine time people can have helping one another. That people like to work together and to kick back after work and share their experiences. What would happen if our foreign policy centered on the cultivation of joy rather than pain? she thought.

Alice Walker

#35. Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

James Altucher

#36. He wondered if he'd be better off staying at the bum shelter with his false bum and forgetting about his real bum. But he couldn't. His bum was trying to take over the world.

Griffiths, Andy

#37. The world forgetting by the world forgot.

Alexander Pope

#38. The majority of people in modern society feel separated - from the world, each other, and themselves. This feeling of separation is a resultfrom we humans attempting to separate ourselves from nature, and consequently forgetting who we really are.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#39. In other words, this world is not a sin; forgetting that "this world" is the radiance and Goodness of Spirit - there is the sin.

Ken Wilber

#40. What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.

George Santayana

#41. We live through evolution ourselves, each of us, progressing through different apprehensions of the world, at each age forgetting the last age, every previous mind erased. We no longer see the same world at all.

David Vann

#42. You can count the bruises on your heart easily enough, but numbering sins is a far tricker matter. Men are eternally forgetting for their benefit. They leave it to the World to remeber, and to the Outside to call them to harsh accout. One hundred Heavens ... for one thousand Hells.

R. Scott Bakker

#43. It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.

Joshua Foer