A Quote by Arthur Helps

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

Arthur Helps

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Few Forgetfulness Memory Much Wished

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Arthur Helps
British - Historian
July 10, 1813 - March 7, 1875

I wished God were like He used to be, a few notches lower. I wanted Him to be lofty enough to help me but not so uncontrollable. I longed for His warm presence, times when He seemed more… safe.

Joni Eareckson Tada

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

Elie Wiesel

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he'd even bothered.

Norton Juster

Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.

Ivan Goncharov

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Mason Cooley

Memory is the miser of the mind; forgetfulness the spendthrift.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Memory is a political act. Forgetfulness is the handmaiden of tyranny.

James Carroll

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Romare Bearden

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

Adrian Forty

The invention of writing will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom.

Socrates

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

James Stephens

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

James Stephens

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

Goswami Kriyananda

The word 'sin' is beautiful; it comes from a root which means 'forgetfulness'. You may not be able to see the connection between forgetfulness and sin, but there IS a connection: forgetfulness means unawareness, unconsciousness.

Rajneesh

Rudy Steiner was scared of the book theif's kiss. He must have longed for it so much. He must have longed for it so much. He must have loved her so incredibly hard. So hard that he would never ask for her lips again, and would go to his grave without them.

Markus Zusak

It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

George Will

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