Forgetfulness Quotes

Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

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

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

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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

And still the mad magnificent herald Spring assembles beauty from forgetfulness with the wild trump of April:witchery of sound and odour drives the wingless thing man forth in the bright air.

People are machines of forgetfulness

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

She threw into the wine which they were drinking a drug which takes away grief and passion and brings forgetfulness of all ills

Self-forgetfulness in creativity can lead to self-transcendence.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.

For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?

Give me to drink mandragora.

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.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Each day the worst of our faults, our deficiencies, our crimes, the truth of our lives, is stifled under a triple layer of forgetfulness, death and the ordinary course of justice.

May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home.

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

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

Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.

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.

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

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

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.

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.

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

Let pessimism once take hold of the mind, and life is all topsy-turvy, all vanity and vexation of spirit. There is no cure for individual or social disorder, except in forgetfulness and annihilation.

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

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

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

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

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

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

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

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

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, 1710. That thou no more will weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness?

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

The world forgetting by the world forgot.

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

It is fatal to forget the heavenly Father.

Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.

until it is taken out of your mind, it is never lost and it is never gone

Do not forget the Heavenly Father.

Misunderstandings arise only in undefined relationships

Why did you leave? Am I not good enough? Where did you go? When did it happen? ..Who are you?

A deep kiss can put you in an emotional state of coma, sometimes in a reckless vulnerability, we lose virginity and sanity, and maybe our bond of love becomes strong or weak.