#forgetting

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

#clouds #come #entire #forgetfulness #forgetting

I notice when I'm on these trips, I read like mad. It's the only thing that seems to center me, bring me back to remembering who I am. Or forgetting who I am! ↗

— Judith Guest

#back #bring #center #forgetting #i

If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#hope #love #pain #suffering #waiting

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

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

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#forgetting #forgot #happy #how #lot

The world forgetting, by the world forgot. ↗