1.
We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis
We dwell in a community of induced oblivion, a society which necessitates communal obliviousness.
3.
Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.
John Climacus
5.
Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.
Romare Bearden
7.
Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
Mason Cooley
10.
Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.
Mia Couto
11.
The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
12.
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
Arthur Helps
13.
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Plutarch
15.
And when he is out of sight, quickly also he is out of mind.
Thomas a Kempis
16.
There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.
Sophocles
18.
God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.
Cesare Lombroso
21.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
Henry David Thoreau
25.
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.
Margot Livesey
26.
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
Jean de la Bruyere
27.
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
Katherine Dunn
28.
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.
Anne Bronte