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Forgetfulness Quotes

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

Forgetfulness, Amnesia, Depends

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

Bayazid Bastami

Self, Remembrance, Forgetfulness

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Humility, Achievement, Forgetfulness

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Humility, Self, Forgetfulness

Thomas Keating (2002). “Open Mind, Open Heart: The Contemplative Dimension of the Gospel”, p.72, A&C Black

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Memories, Forgetfulness

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Humility, Self, Forgetfulness

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

Would Be, Littles, Forgetfulness

I can remember much forgetfulness.

Remember, Forgetfulness, I Can

Hilton Landry, Elaine Landry, Robert J. DeMott, Hart Crane (1973). “A concordance to the poems of Hart Crane”, Scarecrow Pr

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Hatred, Devil, Forgetfulness

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Forget, Forgetfulness, Oneself

Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Memories and Portraits: Stevenson's Vol. 21”, p.17, VM eBooks

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

Forgetfulness

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

Country, Made, Forgetfulness

"Neustadt Prize Winner Reflects On The Civil War That Shaped Him". Interview with Sarah Hurd and Suzette Grillot, kgou.org. November 14, 2014.

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

Misery, Pleasure, Forgetfulness

Forget thyself to marble.

Forget, Forgetfulness, Marble

John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.412

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Memories, Forgetfulness

Sir Arthur Helps (1883). “Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd”

And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.

Thomas a Kempis

Sight, Mind, Forgetfulness

'De Imitatione Christi' bk. 1, ch. 23, sect. 1

People are machines of forgetfulness

People, Machines, Forgetfulness

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Christina Stead

Self, Charm, Forgetfulness

Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.21, Open Road Media

God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

Cesare Lombroso

Forgetful, Forgetfulness, Knows

The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

Give me to drink mandragora.

William Shakespeare

Giving, Drink, Forgetfulness

'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 5, l. 4

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau

Ignorance, Forgetfulness, Defects

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.214, Courier Corporation

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

Forget, Forgetfulness, Hardest

'Eloisa to Abelard' (1717) l. 189.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Self, Forgetfulness, Self Forgetfulness

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1996). “Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention”, Harpercollins

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

Forget, Forgetfulness

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

Way, Remember, Forgetfulness

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