#forgetting

The crime of loving is forgetting. ↗

— Maurice Chevalier

#forgetting #loving

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#kind #knowing #not knowing #painful #suffering

America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves - Samuel Clemens became Mark Twain, Jack Kerouac went on the road. If they had a Facebook page, they wouldn't have been able to forget their former selves. ↗

— Jaron Lanier

#about #adventure #always #america #american

The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#consciousness #death #even #forgetting #homogeneous

We'd have made more, but I kept forgetting to write songs down. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#forgetting #i #kept #made #more

Take without forgetting, and give without remembering. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#give #remembering #take #without

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

#forgetting #god #had #just #sign

Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#culture #forgetting #great #learning #many

Diligent as one must be in learning, one must be as diligent in forgetting; otherwise the process is one of pedantry, not culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#diligent #forgetting #learning #must #otherwise

Learning has always been made much of, but forgetting has always been deprecated; therefore pedantry has pretty well established itself throughout the modern world at the expense of culture. ↗

— Albert J. Nock

#been #culture #established #expense #forgetting