Forgetting Quotes

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am!

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

You start thinking the world is a certain way and forgetting that there's another world outside of the campus boundaries that has nothing to do with what is your world at the time.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture.

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

I've a grand memory for forgetting.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

There is only one thing more harmful to society than an elected official forgetting the promises he made in order to get elected; that's when he doesn't forget them.

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.