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forgetfulness

«We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead»
«If there is pain, use it as an awareness, as meditation, as a sharpening of the soul. And when pleasure is there, use it as a droning, as a forgetfulness. Both are ways to reach God. One is to remember yourself totally, and one is to forget yourself totally. »
«I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.»
Author: Chaim Herzog | About: Forgiveness | Keywords: forgetfulness, The Only Ones
«History as a discipline can be characterized as having a collective forgetfulness about women»
Author: Clarice Stasz Stoll | About: History | Keywords: forgetfulness
«Pleasure is a sort of oblivion, a forgetfulness. Pain is remembrance, you cannot forget pain.»
«Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state»
«Fame is an illusive thing / here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few months.»
«Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.»
«O sleep, O gentle sleep, nature's soft nurse, how have I frightened thee, that thou no more wilt weigh my eye-lids down and steep my senses in forgetfulness?»
«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.»