Without a little negligence, life would be intolerable.
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
We survive until, by sheer stamina, we escape into the dim innocence of our own adulthood and its forgetfulness.
The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.
The long-term accommodation that protects marriage and other such relationships is. . . forgetfulness.
Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness.
Turn your eyes whither you will, enter into whatever temple you please, you will find there on the very threshold Prophecy and Sacrament. . . . whoever despises these two things, infallibly bends towards earth, knowing nothing of God but his name, and holding with him no other relations than ingratitude and forgetfulness.
A baby is expected. A trip is expected. News is expected. Forgetfulness is expected. An invitation is expected. Hope is expected. But memories are not expected. They just come.
As far as I'm concerned it's the other way round. We repeat what we remember. Only forgetfulness sets us free.
Forgetfulness of God's grace is one of the greatest tools in the enemy's war against our souls.
Love receives its death-wound from aversion, and forgetfulness buries it.
Humility is self-forgetfulness.
Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.
Forgetfulness transforms every occurrence into a non-occurrence.
Do good when you remember, and what you forget will be revealed to you; and do not surrender your mind to blind forgetfulness.
To forget oneself is to be happy.
Forgetfulness is a form of freedom.
There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Few have wished for memory so much as they have longed for forgetfulness.
It is sure the hardest science to forget!
