Quotes of Forgetfulness - somelinesforyou

“ A forted residence 'gainst the tooth of time And razure of oblivion. - Measure for Measure. Act v. Sc. 1. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. ”

- Bible

“ Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back Wherein he puts alms for oblivion, A great-sized monster of ingratitudes: Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd As fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Beware of too much laughter, for it deadens the mind and produces oblivion. ”

- Talmud

“ But the iniquity of oblivion blindly scattereth her poppy, and deals with the memory of men without distinction to merit of perpetuity. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. ”

- Elias Canetti

“ I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken vessel. ”

- Bible

“ And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ There is no remembrance which time does not obliterate, nor pain which death does not terminate. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes

“ 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. ”

- William Graham Sumner

“ God has no power over the past except to cover it with oblivion. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ But my thoughts ran a wool-gathering; and I did like the countryman, who looked for his ass while he was mounted on his back. ”

- Cervantes

“ We may with advantage forget what we know. ”

- Publilius Syrus

“ The pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows. ”

- Friedrich Klopstock

“ God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted. ”

- John Owen

“ Our God and soldier we alike adore, When at the brink of ruin, not before; After deliverance both alike requited, Our God forgotten, and our soldiers slighted. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead. ”

- Alexander Smith

“ One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washed it away; Agayne I wrote it with a second hand, But came the tyde and made my paynes his prey. ”

- Edmund Spenser

“ Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. ”

- Horace

“ The drug that heals our sorrows forgetfulness. ”

- Appianus

“ Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness. ”

- Christina Stead

“ Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God. ”

- Bayazid Al Bistami

“ Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Ignorance, forgetfulness, or contempt of the rights of man are the only causes of public misfortunes and of the corruption of governments. ”

- French National Assembly

“ 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? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The memory of most men is an abandoned cemetery where lie, unsung and unhonored, the dead whom they have ceased to cherish. Any lasting grief is reproof to their forgetfulness. ”

- Marguerite Yourcenar

“ Apathy. A sort of living oblivion. ”

- Andrew Greeley
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