Forgetting Quotes

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. (Elizabeth Bibesco)

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

Laurence J. Peter

Love is so short and forgetting is so long.

Pablo Neruda

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.'

Immanuel Kant

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

Paulo Coelho

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

Chuck Palahniuk

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.

Charles Baudelaire

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

Yves Saint-Laurent

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

Iris Murdoch

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.

Sydney Smith

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. (Mignon McLaughlin)

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Milan Kundera

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.

Michael Ondaatje

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.

Natalie Goldberg

For it is only by forgetting that we ever really drop the thread of time and approach the experience of living in the present moment, so elusive in ordinary hours.

Michael Pollan

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

Hector Berlioz

Let sanguine healthy-mindedness do its best with its strange power of living in the moment and ignoring and forgetting, still the evil background is really there to be thought of, and the skull will grin in at the banquet.

William James

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

Ba Jin

Could we bring ourselves to feel what the first spectators of an Egyptian statue, or a Romanesque crucifixion, felt, we would make haste to remove them from the Louvre. True, we are trying more and more to gauge the feelings of those first spectators, but without forgetting our own, and we can be contented all the more easily with the mere knowledge of the former, without experiencing them, because all we wish to do is put this knowledge to the work of art.

André Malraux

I've a grand memory for forgetting, David'. (Robert Louis Stevenson)

We are watching the Germans closely; we are not forgetting what they did to us during the war.

Anastas Mikoyan

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

Fernando Pessoa

It is the nature of men, having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.

Walter Raleigh

Walk a single path, becoming neither cocky with victory nor broken with defeat, without forgetting caution when all is quiet or becoming frightened when danger threatens.

Jigoro Kano

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