Definition of Forgetting

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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

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

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

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
Mignon McLaughlin

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

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

Academic qualifications are important and so is financial education. They're both important and schools are forgetting one of them.
Robert Kiyosaki

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

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

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

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

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

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Milan Kundera

Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Iris Murdoch

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

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

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

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?
Yves Saint Laurent

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

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.
Bernard Meltzer

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

Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
Johannes Tauler

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

Towards my husband, I often fail to show interest in his affairs and amusements, not rousing myself to respond when I'm tired or concerned with other things, forgetting he is very patient with me.
Evelyn Underhill

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

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
Jack Dempsey

I think acting is about forgetting yourself in order to give the best of yourself. It's passing through you more than you're creating it. You're not the flower, but the vase which holds the flower.
Juliette Binoche

I keep forgetting I'm speaking in an American accent sometimes. The dangerous thing is that you end up forgetting what your real accent is after a while! It's really strange; I've never done a job in an American accent before.
Robert Pattinson

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Forgetting Translations

forgetting in French is oubliant
forgetting in German is vergessend

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