Forgetting Quotes
Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho
Friendship consists in forgetting what one gives, and remembering what one receives.
Alexandre Dumas
One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze
Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.
Li Yaotang
I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness.
Jorge Luis Borges
Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.
Eric Hoffer
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting. And cometh from afar.
William Wordsworth
Man talks of a battle with Nature, forgetting that if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side.
E. F. Schumacher
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
Mary Stewart
The existence of forgetting has never been proved: We only know that some things don't come to mind when we want them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
Michael Ignatieff
Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.
Dean Koontz
