#forgetful

Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#bitterness #forgetfulness #anger

Forgetfulness is a form of freedom. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#freedom #memory #freedom

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

— Alexander Smith

#dead #forgetfulness #grass #grows #like

....my brain works like an etch-a-sketch; even the slightest movement causes it to go completely blank. ↗

— Quinn Cummings

#forgetful #life

The name of the author is the first to go followed obediently by the title, the plot, the heartbreaking conclusion, the entire novel which suddenly becomes one you have never read, never even heard of, as if, one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the southern hemisphere of the brain, to a little fishing village where there are no phones. ↗

— Billy Collins

#obedience

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget. ↗

— Chaim Herzog

#bring #dead #forget #forgetfulness #forgive

Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#happiness #life

I never forget things. I just don't observe them in the first place. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #observation #funny

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#alive #barriers #between #communication #elders

Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#body #constraints #forgetfulness #freedom #lethe