A Quote by Romare Bearden

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Romare Bearden

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Romare Bearden
American - Artist
September 2, 1911 - March 12, 1988

The cognitive structure does not generate consciousness; it simply reflects it; and in the process limits and embellishes it. In a fundamental sense, consciousness is the source of our awareness. In other words, consciousness is not merely awareness as manifest in different forms but it is also what makes awareness possible.

Larry Dossey

You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realize that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all... Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.

Luis Bunuel

For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life—uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.

Louisa May Alcott

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

Robert Green Ingersoll

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Mason Cooley

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

James Carroll

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

Arthur Helps

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

Adrian Forty

If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

Taylor Caldwell

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

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

Goswami Kriyananda

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

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

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

Zane Grey

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

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