Definition of Forgetting

Forgetting Quotations

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
Paulo Coelho

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.
Alexander Pope

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
Chuck Palahniuk

I've a grand memory for forgetting.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
Charles Baudelaire

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