Forget Him Quotes

• If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Hope, Pain

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 19, 2016

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• Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Light, Tonight

  Emily Dickinson, “Heart, We Will Forget Him”

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• Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Night, Light

  Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

  Lara St. John

  Dad, Guy, Never Forget

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• He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Motivational, Forget, Grows

  “Whosoever Will Save His Life” by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. August 1982.

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• That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.

  Jennifer Worth

  Forget, Trouble, Mines

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• For in prosperity a man is often puffed up with pride, whereas tribulations chasten and humble him through suffering and sorrow. In the midst of prosperity the mind is elated, and in prosperity a man forgets himself; in hardship he is forced to reflect on himself, even though he be unwilling. In prosperity a man often destroys the good he has done; amidst difficulties he often repairs what he long since did in the way of wickedness.

  Alfred the Great

  Humble, Pride, Men

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• Stubborn selfishness leads otherwise good people to fight over herds, patches of sand, and strippings of milk. All this results from what the Lord calls coveting "the drop," while neglecting the "more weighty matters." (D&C 117:8) Myopic selfishness magnifies a mess of pottage and makes thirty pieces of silver look like a treasure trove. In our intense acquisitiveness, we forget Him who once said, "What is property unto me?"

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Fighting, People, Selfishness

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• Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Self, Joy, Suffering

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel”, p.37, e-artnow

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• What's his name? I tried to forget him because if he would have fought like he worked with my guy he would have knocked the guy out.

  Angelo Dundee

  Names, Boxing, Guy

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• Do not forget Him but think on Him often. Adore Him continually. Live and die with Him. This is the glorious work of a Christian; in a word, this is our profession. If we do not know it, we must learn it.

  Brother Lawrence

  Christian, Thinking, Forget

  Brother Lawrence (2009). “The Practice of the Presence of God: The Complete Works of Brother Lawrence with Notes and Scripture References”, p.80, Perieco Publishing

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• My friends are my estate. Forgive me then the avarice to hoard them. They tell me those who were poor early have different views of gold. I don't know how that is. God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him.

  Emily Dickinson

  Views, Giving, Forgive Me

  Emily Dickinson (1959). “Selected poems and letters of Emily Dickinson: together with Thomas Wentworth Higginson's account of his correspondence with the poet and his visit to her in Amherst”, Turtleback

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• make it a practice to avoid hating anyone. If someone's been guilty of despicable actions, especially toward me, I try to forget him. I used to follow a practice - somewhat contrived, I admit - to write the man's name on a piece of scrap paper, drop it into the lowest drawer of my desk, and say to myself: "That finishes the incident, and so far as I'm concerned, that fellow." The drawer became over the years a sort of private wastebasket for crumbled-up spite and discarded personalities.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hate, Writing, Men

  "At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends". Book by Dwight D. Eisenhower, p. 52, 1967.

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• When a child of the streets stands before you in rags, with a tear-stained face, you cannot easily forget him. And yet, you are perplexed what to do. The human soul is difficult to interfere with. You hesitate how far you should go.

  Charles Loring Brace

  Children, Choices, Soul

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• Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.

  Hippolyte Taine

  Selfish, Reflection, Men

  Hippolyte Taine (1904). “History of English literature”

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• Joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself.

  Cyril Tourneur

  Thinking, Joy, Forget

  "Webster & Tourneur".

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• If when I am able to discover something which has baffled others, I forget Him who revealeth the deep and secret things, and knoweth what is in the darkness and showeth it to us; if I forget that it was He who granted that ray of light to His most unworthy servant, then I know nothing of Calvary love.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Light, Darkness

  Amy Carmichael (2003). “If: What do I Know of Calvary Love?”, p.32, CLC Publications

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• We may forget him, but God will never forget us. We're forever on his mind and in his plans.

  Max Lucado

  Forever, Mind, May

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• A paycheck is a sufficient impetus to motivate some employees to do the minimum amount to get by, and for others, the challenge of getting ahead in the organization provides a satisfactory focus for a while. But these incentives alone are rarely strong enough to inspire workers to give their best to their work. For this a vision is needed, an overarching goal that gives meaning to the job, so that an individual can forget himself in the task and experience flow without doubts or regrets. The most important component of such a vision is an ingredient we call soul.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Strong, Jobs, Regret

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• The boy will remain a son and never become a father. He will be forgotten by the crowd once his blood is rinsed clean from the ground; his sister will think of him but soon she will forget him, too. He will live on only in Han's memory, a child punished not for his own insincerity but someone else's disbelief.

  Yiyun Li

  Children, Memories, Father

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• This time I wouldn't forget him, because I couldn't ever forgive him - for breaking my heart twice.

  James Patterson

  Broken Heart, Forgiving, Forget

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• That’s not a father. That’s a sperm donor. Forget him. He’s a mess. Concentrate on me. I’m terrific. (Linc Blaise)

  Jennifer Crusie

  Father, Forget, Donors

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• For I do not want any one to read my book carelessly. I have suffered too much grief in setting down these memories. Six years have already passed since my friend went away from me, with his sheep. If I try to describe him here, it is to make sure that I shall not forget him. To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown-ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Grief, Book

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• He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.

  Richard Wright

  Blood, Long, Suffering

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.277, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

  Kate Chopin

  Personality, Special, Details

  Kate Chopin (2006). “Awakening EasyRead Edition”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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