Quotes on Forgetful

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.

There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest.

Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.

And some men are as ignorant of what they do when awake as they are forgetful of what they do when asleep.

Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow

The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe; Forgetful what from him I still receivd, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and dischargd; what burden then?

No art is sunk in the self, but rather, in art the self becomes self-forgetful in order to meet the demands of the thing seen and the thing being made.

All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have. been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

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

Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.

What one seems to want in art, in experiencing it, is the same thing that is necessary for its creation, a self-forgetful, perfectly useless concentration.

My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.