Top 190 Forgetfulness Quotes & Sayings

I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems.

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

Forgetfulness of your real nature is true death; remembrance of it is rebirth.

Memory only becomes interesting through its struggle with forgetfulness.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

To live, to have so much ambition, to suffer, to cry, to fight and, at the end, forgetfulness ... as if I had never existed.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?

Forgetfulness, and I would even say historical error, are essential in the creation of a nation.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ?

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

Levin delights in the forgetfulness that movement brings, where the pleasure of doing is marvellously foreign to the striving of the will.

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

Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.

Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.

Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

Charm lies in complete forgetfulness of self.

The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is ... forgetfulness.

Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

There can only be two basic loves... the love of God unto the forgetfulness of self, or the love of self unto the forgetfulness and denial of God.

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

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

There is a noble forgetfulness-that which does not remember injuries.

Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.

We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

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

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

This endured absence is nothing more or less than forgetfulness. I am, intermittently, unfaithful. This is the condition of my survival.

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

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

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

True humility is more like self-forgetfulness than false modesty.

Ah, now, don't cry over lost years and forgetfulness. The tales tell what they can. The rest is for us to learn.

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.

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.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

People are machines of forgetfulness

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.

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

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

I want now to be of today. It is painful to be conscious of two worlds. The Wandering Jew in me seeks forgetfulness.

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

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.

A man stays alive as long as he is remembered. He is killed only by forgetfulness.

Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers.

Though we live amid promiscuous pressures, spiritual clutter and forgetfulness, we probably still value the integrity of life.

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.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

There is a sad forgetfulness of Christian modesty, especially in the life and dress of women.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.