Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
Samuel Butler

Long for me as I for you, forgetting, what will be inevitable, the long black aftermath of pain.
Malcolm Lowry

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
Pablo Neruda

Most of my nightmares involve me forgetting my lines in a stage play.
Robert Englund

Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.
Margery Allingham

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

One of the most dangerous forms of human error is forgetting what one is trying to achieve.
Paul Nitze

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter

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.
William Wordsworth

Our sense of worth, of well-being, even our sanity depends upon our remembering. But, alas, our sense of worth, our well-being, our sanity also depend upon our forgetting.
Joyce Appleby

Self-righteous people can talk themselves into forgetting they are part of a civilization. They can then feed on that culture, bringing it down. It's happened many times in the past. It could happen to us.
David Brin

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.
Bryant H. McGill

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
Mary Stewart

The crime of loving is forgetting.
Maurice Chevalier

The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself.
Raoul Vaneigem

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.
David Herbert Lawrence

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.
Claude Pepper

The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.
Sydney Smith

The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
Arthur Koestler