20 quotes found
“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”
“Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion.”
“Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.”
“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”
“Traces of human life vanish very quickly: Glafira Petrovna's estate had not yet gone wild, but it seemed already to have sunk into that quiet repose which possesses everything on earth wherever the...”
“Forgiveness: best for cleansing. Forgetfulness best for repetition.”
“We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.”
“So much is buried in our lives that we forget what we have learned.”
“I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel.”
“And when he is out of sight quickly also he is out of mind.”
“The world forgetting by the world forgot.”
“There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate nor pain which death does not terminate.”
“If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning.”
“Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.”
