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.

Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.

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.

One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are

None of it was important now. The wind blew it out of his head.

Why do we forget what we read in the Bible? Is it just a poor memory? No, it's a failure to meditate.

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.

So many times you've given me comfort and forgetfulness.

That thou remember them, some claim as debt; I think it mercy, if thou wilt forget.

Happiness is health and a short memory!

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

She gave so many reasons that I've forgotten them all.