Forgetfulness Quotations

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

People are machines of forgetfulness

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

I can remember much forgetfulness.

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

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

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

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

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

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Give me to drink mandragora.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

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

Forget thyself to marble.

Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.

To forget oneself is to be happy.