Quotes with forgetfulness

  • We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
  • When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

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  • Henry Miller 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.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Arthur Machen 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.
    Arthur Machen
    Welsh author and mystic (1863 - 1947)
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  • William Shakespeare 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
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Wordsworth Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. The soul that rises with us, our life's star, hath had elsewhere its setting, and comet from afar: not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Marguerite Yourcenar 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
    French writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Alexander Smith We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Angela Davis We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Ben Okri When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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