Forgetful Quotes

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Blessed, Forget, Eternal Sunshine

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.86, e-artnow

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• Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

  J. K. Rowling

  Age, Potters, Youth

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

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Names, Pyramids, History

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• We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.

  Alexander Smith

  Grass, Grows, Over It

  Alexander Smith (1909). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Smith”

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• Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

  Howard Nemerov

  Travel, Science, Journey

  Howard Nemerov (1981). “The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov”, p.345, University of Chicago Press

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• Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  Don Adams

  Awkward, Degrees, Sentimental

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• Forgotten? No, we never do forget:
  We let the years go: eash then clean with tears,
  Leave them to bleach, out in the open day,
  Or lock them careful by, like dead friends’ clothes,
  Till we shall dare unfold them without pain,—
  But we forget not, never can forget.

  Dinah

  Pain, Clothes, Years

  "A Flower of a Day". Poem by Dinah Maria Mulock, webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. 1866.

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• Meek young men grow up in libraries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Growing Up, Men, Library

  The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)

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• The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past, and man forgot.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Stars, Lying, Spring

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• My creed is love and you are its only tenet.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Cheesy

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.986, Delphi Classics

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• God and I both knew what it meant once; now God alone knows.

  Cesare Lombroso

  Forgetfulness, Knows

  The Man of Genius pt. 1, ch. 2 (1891)

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• God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before; The danger o'er, both are alike requited, God is forgotten, and the Doctor slighted.

  Robert Owen

  God, Doctors, Medical

  Epigram Cf. 256:27

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• All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

  Elias Canetti

  Inspirational, Dream, Helping

  Die Provinz der Menschen (The Human Province, 1973) p. 269

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• Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Politics, Remember

  Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.

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• You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving.

  John Keats

  Moments, Dissolving, Sensations

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

  Norman Wisdom

  Funny, Birthday, Memories

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is sometimes expedient to forget what you know.

  Publilius Syrus

  Sometimes, Forget, Knows

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, 1922.

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• Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
  Lest we forget--lest we forget!

  Rudyard Kipling

  God, Host, Forget

  "Recessional" st. 1 (1897)

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• Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

  James Stephens

  Memories, Past, Men

  James Stephens (2015). “Irish Fairy Tales”, p.8, Booklassic

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

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Funny Inspirational, Memories, Philosophical

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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

  Ambrose Bierce

  Debtors, Owing A Debt, Gift From God

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.38, Courier Corporation

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• I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion-- I have shuddered at it, I shudder no more. I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you. My Creed is Love and you are its only tenet.

  John Keats

  Love, Romantic, Men

  John Keats (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)”, p.986, Delphi Classics

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• Love is my religion - I could die for it.

  John Keats

  Love, Passion, Romance

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130

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• Mistakes remember'd are not faults forgot.

  Robert Henry Newell

  Mistake, Faults, Remember

  Robert Henry Newell (1871). “Versatilities”, p.186

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• 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.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Kings, Humble, Sacrifice

  Recessional, in The Times 17 July 1897

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