Forgetting Quotes

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

Waiting, Suffering, Knowing

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Bernard Meltzer

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

Art, Hear, Fine

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki

Education, Important, Both

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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.
Johannes Tauler

Knowledge, Wisdom, School

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

Somebody, News, Heroes

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Money, Remember, Old

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

Everything, Big, Picture

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

Love, Someone, Matter

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

Happy, Forgot, Blameless

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

God, Suffering, Sign

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.
William Wordsworth

Sleep, Birth, Glory

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

Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler

Death, Lord, Less

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

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

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
David Herbert Lawrence

Death, Human, Complete

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda

Love, Long, Short

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

Age, Old, Grave

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

Work, Time, Down

We all have insecurities, and the thing that makes them crippling is that we all have the ability to blow them up into such huge issues in our minds, that we might as well have a facial deformity. It keeps us from really going out there and living our lives, and forgetting about hating yourself and just experiencing the world around you.
Christina Ricci

Yourself, Living, Around

The crime of loving is forgetting.
Maurice Chevalier

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
Bryant H. McGill

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery Allingham

Valuable, Minute, Permanent

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper

Thinking, Mistake, Appointed

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

Power, Struggle, Against

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Jack Dempsey

Forget, Past, Worry

I'm very good at forgetting people.
Kristin Scott Thomas

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

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