Best Forgetfulness Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 6

“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?”

Looks Left Behinds Anxiety Longing Casts Warm Rings Dumb Anxious Cheerful Prey Forgetfulness

Author:Thomas Gray

“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.”

Men Stills Sound Beauty Air Trump Spring Mad Magnificent April Forgetfulness Witchery

Author:e. e. cummings

“Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.”

Self Opinion Humility Lows Catholic Forgetfulness Self Forgetfulness

Author:Peter Kreeft

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

Nations Creation Essentials Historical Errors Forgetfulness

Author:Ernest Renan

“But what after all, behind appearances, is this seeming mystery? We can see that it is the Consciousness which had lost itself returning again to itself, emerging out of its giant self-forgetfulness, slowly, painfully, as a Life that is would be sentient, half-sentient, dimly sentient, wholly sentient and finally struggles to be more than sentient, to be again divinely selfconscious, free, infinite, immortal.”

Self Would Be Lost Growth Behinds Consciousness Mystery Mindfulness Conscious Infinite Appearance Giants Immortal Emerging Self Conscious Seeming Forgetfulness Self Forgetfulness

Author:Sri Aurobindo

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

Passion Grief Drug Wine Drinking Forgetfulness

Author:Homer

“Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.”

Remember Political Politics Forgotten Convenient Forgetfulness Forgetful

Author:Benjamin Disraeli

“The greatness and efficacy of a magician is measured by his refusal to use magic. The true magician, the greatest, is the poorest and most unfortunate of all mortals. Because between his magic and his person forgetfulness takes shape, in the form of the world.”

World Persons Use Form Magic Greatness Shapes Mortals Unfortunate Magician Refusal Poorest Forgetfulness Efficacy

Author:Cesar Aira

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

Love Self Happiness Lying Work Happy Happy Life Being Happy Measurement Loving Someone Forgetfulness Happiness And Love Feeling Happy Happy Inspirational Self Forgetfulness

Author:Everett Ruess

“Spiritual realization is theoretically the easiest thing and in practice the most difficult thing there is. It is the easiest because it is enough to think of God. It is the most difficult because human nature is forgetfulness of God.”

Thinking Humans Enough Spiritual Difficult Practice Human Nature Realization Difficult Things Forgetfulness

Book:Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life

Source: Prayer Fashions Man: Frithjof Schuon on the Spiritual Life

“Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.”

Ifs World Giving Self Joy Winning Sound Hours Pleasure Creation Give Me Forgetfulness Composing Self Forgetfulness

Author:Clara Schumann

“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.”

Sometimes Done Facts Memories Worry Unhappy Forgetfulness Potency Happy Memories

Book:Rough Music

Source: Rough Music

“Thyroid Panel (blood test)-Abnormal thyroid hormone levels are a common cause of anxiety, depression, forgetfulness, confusion, and lethargy. Having low thyroid levels decreases overall brain activity, which can impair your thinking, judgment, and self-control and make it very hard for you to feel good. Low thyroid functioning can make it nearly impossible to manage weight effectively. To know your thyroid levels, you need to know these figures: thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) Free T3 Free T4 Thyroid antibodies (thyroid peroxidase and thyroglobulin antibodies)”

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

Pleasure Movement Strive Delight Forgetfulness

Author:Muriel Barbery

“Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.”

Self Charm Cunning Forgetfulness Self Forgetfulness

Book:House of All Nations

Source: House of All Nations

“A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I remembered everything.I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig-tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a grey skull.Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them.But they were part of me. They were my landscape”

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

People Life Inspirational Feels Made Said Feelings Inspiration Motivational Death Women Memories Forget Inspiring Powerful Attitude History Positive Positive Thinking Inspirational Life Communication Yoga Inspired African American Moving On I've Learned Live By Never Forget Graduation Carpe Diem Insperational Forgetfulness Phenomenal Forget You Remembers You Mentoring Be Inspired Wise Women Inspiring Leader Change For The Better Successful Women Power To Change Motivational Leadership Women Power Inspire Women Phenomenal Woman Cool Motivational Courage To Love Inspirational Adversity Positive Optimistic Lift You Up Great Marketing Successful Leaders Life And Inspirational Love And Courage Black Women Inspirational Female Writers Love Life Inspirational Live For Yourself Inspiration And Life Powerful Inspirational Forget The Pain Remembering Her Encouragement For Women You Have Changed You Live And Learn Forget The World Inspiration To Others Very Inspirational Forget A Friend Powerful Life

Author:Maya Angelou

“Your soul has a special mission. Your soul is supremely conscious of it. Maya, illusion or forgetfulness, makes you feel that you are finite, weak and helpless. This is not true. You are not the body. You are not the senses. You are not the mind. These are all limited. You are the soul, which is unlimited. Your soul is infinitely powerful. Your soul defies all time and space.”

Feels Mind Soul Body Space Powerful Special Illusion Conscious Weak Missions Senses All Time Your Soul Helpless Unlimited Finite Time And Space Forgetfulness True You Maya Illusion

Book:Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy

Source: Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy

“Evil company is always to be shunned; because it leads to lust and anger, illusion, forgetfulness of the goal, destruction of the will (lack of perseverance), and destruction of everything. (Narada Bhakti Sutra)”

Evil Goal Company Illusion Destruction Anger Perseverance Lust Forgetfulness Bhakti

Author:Swami Vivekananda

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

Depends Forgetfulness Amnesia

Author:Angela Davis

“The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst forgetfulness is only the result of a weak memory, or of an easy carelessness.”

Men Mind Heart Doe Easy Loses Memories Forget Results He Man Weak Forgiving Noble Generous Remembrance Forgetfulness Offspring Carelessness

Book:The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete

“O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse.”

Sleep Gentle Nurse Insomnia Forgetfulness Slumber Can't Sleep Eyelids Sleeping In Funny Sleep I Can't Sleep Sleepiness Canopy Funny Sleeping Funny Insomnia

Author:William Shakespeare

“Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.”

Memories Forgetfulness

Author:Romare Bearden

“There comes a time, in the history of Nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you? Will you lovers of liberty, will you rise to the occasion?”

Nations Causes Liberty Lovers Occasions Forgetfulness There Comes A Time

Author:Rand Paul

“Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.”

Death Literature Dying Forgotten Never Forget Death And Dying Forgetfulness Dying Death Condolence Message Sympathy Messages

Book:Four Novels of George Eliot

Source: Four Novels of George Eliot

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

States Memories Ignorance Enjoyment Attachment Forgetfulness Clinging

Author:Goswami Kriyananda

“The perfection of His relation to us swallows up all our imperfections, all our defeats, all our evils; for our childhood is born of His fatherhood. That man is perfect in faith who can come to God in the utter dearth of his feelings and his desires, without a glow or an aspiration, with the weight of low thoughts, failures, neglects, and wandering forgetfulness, and say to Him, “Thou art my refuge, because Thou art my home”.”

Men Art Feelings Home Desire Evil Born Perfect Childhood Lows Perfection Weight Relation Our Children Defeat Wander Aspiration Neglect Imperfection Refuge Fatherhood Forgetfulness

Author:George MacDonald

“Many of the ugly pages of American history have been obscured and forgotten. A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay. If it loses the will to finish or slackens in its determination, history will recall its crimes and the country that would be great will lack the most indispensable element of greatness — justice.”

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

Innocence Adulthood Sheer Forgetfulness Stamina

Book:Geek Love: A Novel

Source: Geek Love: A Novel

“What is a man's life but a prelude to his death? And what is death but a long sleep, a most welcome forgetfulness.”

Men Long Sleep Welcome Forgetfulness Prelude Long Sleep

Author:Lisa M

“St. Andrews provided a gentle forgetfulness over the preceding painful years of my life. It remains a haunting and lovely time to me, a marrow experience. For one who during her undergraduate years was trying to escape an inexplicable weariness and despair, St. Andrews was an amulet against all manner of longing and loss, a year of gravely held but joyous remembrances.”

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Forgotten? No, we never do forget: We let the years go: eash then clean with tears, Leave them to bleach, out in the open day, Or lock them careful by, like dead friends’ clothes, Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,— But we forget not, never can forget.”

Years Pain Forget Tears Clothes Clean Forgotten Careful Dare Locks Forgetfulness Forgetful Without Pain Bleach

Author:Dinah

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

Stills Spiritual Values Integrity Pressure Forgetfulness Clutter Promiscuous

Author:Baker Brownell

“God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.”

God Danger Doctors Forgotten Medical Adore Forgetfulness Forgetful Slighted

Author:Robert Owen

“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.”

Ifs Writing Memories Hatred Obsession Theme Forgetfulness

Book:From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

Source: From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences

“Now more than ever, as the role of memory in our culture erodes at a faster pace than ever before, we need to cultivate our ability to remember. Our memories make us who we are. They are the seat of our values and source of our character. Competing to see who can memorize more pages of poetry might seem beside the point, but it's about taking a stand against forgetfulness, and embracing primal capacities from which too many of us have became estrangedmemory training is not just for the sake of performing party tricks; it's about nurturing something profoundly and essentially human.”

“Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.”

Forgetfulness

Author:Plutarch

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

Pleasure Misery Forgetfulness

Author:Sophocles

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

Doe Remember Forgiveness Noble Injury Forgetfulness

Author:Charles Simmons

“Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.”

Self Remembrance Forgetfulness

Author:Bayazid Bastami

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