Forget thyself to marble.

Give me to drink mandragora.

Humility is self-forgetfulness.

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

To forget oneself is to be happy.

I can remember much forgetfulness.

People are machines of forgetfulness

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Humility is the forgetfulness of self.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

It is sure the hardest science to forget!

Forgetfulness of self is remembrance of God.

the self expands through acts of self forgetfulness.

Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.

Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.

Humility is constant forgetfulness of one's achievements.

Memory embellishes Life. Forgetfulness makes it possible.

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

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

Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.

Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.

The devil doesn't fill us with hatred for God, but with forgetfulness of God.

I take my forgetfulness in a positive stride because I also forget the problems.

Our official histories of our countries and societies are made of forgetfulness.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.

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

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.

We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.

I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.

Forgetfulness is not to be purchased with a wish; and I cannot bestow my esteem on all who desire it, unless they deserve it too.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

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.

With all the lines I have to learn for TV scripts, I don't think I have any problems with forgetfulness - that's brain exercise enough for me.

I have never seen such extreme partisanship, such bitter partisanship, and such forgetfulness of the fate of our fathers and of the Constitution.

What makes life worth living? Better surely, to yield to the stain of suicide blood in me and seek forgetfulness in the embrace of cold dark death.

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering: with remembering the past of America above all - and above all, that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to forgetfulness.

I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and forgetfulness cause a nation to hesitate, to waver, and perhaps even to succumb. When that time comes, those who love liberty must rise to the occasion. Will you lovers of liberty rise to the occasion?

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

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