Quotes about Forgetfulness
Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.
— Mark Twain
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are
— Henri Nouwen
None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.
— Ernest Hemingway
Why do we forget what we read in the Bible? Is it just a poor memory? No, it's a failure to meditate.
— Donald Whitney
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
— Anonymous
So many times you've given me comfort and forgetfulness.
— Frank Herbert
That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.
— John Donne
Happiness is health and a short memory!
— Audrey Hepburn
I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.
— Audrey Hepburn
She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.
— Edith Wharton