Forgetfulness Quotes

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

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

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

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

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

Forget thyself to marble.

Give me to drink mandragora.

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

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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

People are machines of forgetfulness

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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.

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.

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