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  • To the sick man the physician when he enters seems to have three faces, those of a man, a devil, a god. When the physician first comes and announces the safety of the patient, then the sick man says: "Behold a God or a guardian angel!

    Angel   Men   Safety  
    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Compiled by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt and Kate Louise Roberts, p. 287-88, 1922.
  • Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short, of everything he possesses: he will be a hollow man, reduced to suffering and needs, forgetful of dignity and restraint, for he who loses all often loses himself.

    Men   Clothes   Justice  
    Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
  • Nature is like a wild animal that you have trained to work for you. So long as you are vigilant and walk warily with thought and care, so long will it give you its aid, but look away for an instant, be heedless or forgetful, and it has you by the throat.

    Nature   Animal   Giving  
    Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”
  • What passes for love is imperfect knowledge. Not knowing, initially, allows faithlessness to dress up as its opposite; casts the inarticulate as enigmatic, the selfish as forgetful, the angry as impassioned.

  • Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books.

    The American Scholar sec. 2 (1837)
  • Once a year, she remembers that she is insignificant. Then she forgets agains, because more than she is insignificant, she is forgetful.

    Years   Remember   Forget  
    Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”
  • Genius in poverty is never feared, because nature, though liberal in her gifts in one instance, is forgetful in another.

  • That you may please others you must be forgetful of yourself.

    People   May   Forgetful  
  • Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

    Hands   Here I Am   Grace  
  • Love is my religion - I could die for it.

    Love   Passion   Romance  
    John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.130
  • Forgetful youth! but know, the Power above With ease can save each object of his love; Wide as his will extends his boundless grace.

    Love   Power   Grace  
    Homer (1872). “The Iliad ...”, p.333
  • All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

    Die Provinz der Menschen (The Human Province, 1973) p. 269
  • I was getting keys for my apartment, and I asked if I could get doubles, because I'm forgetful, and the woman there said, "Yeah, but it costs $5." I was like, "Oh, okay." But then she said, "Actually, you know what, I'm just going to give it to you for free. You were in that movie Mrs. Doubtfire, and that movie really helped me out in a time when I needed it. It got me through something, and it made me laugh when I needed to laugh.

    Keys   Giving   Laughing  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain. . . . But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger: the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy: the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair: and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.

    Life   Mother   Peace  
    1938 Adventures of Ideas.
  • I valued the experience of making the recordings, and I value the performances contained therein, and I value so much of what they can represent. I also think they're a terrific listening experience. Putting them out this way was a way of trying to maintain and nurture the relationship with the audience and also shine a light on the recent past, because we are so apt to be forgetful as human beings that there was such a thing as a recent past. These are some of the reasons for making this record.

    Past   Thinking   Light  
    "Will Oldham’s Fourth Dimension". Interview With T. Cole Rachel, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2016.
  • The rose does not have a why; it blossums without reason, forgetful of self and oblivious to our vision.

    Self   Rose   Vision  
  • I Cannot Exist Without You. I Am Forgetful Of Everything But Seeing You Again.

    John Keats (2009). “Selected Letters of John Keats: Revised Edition”, p.390, Harvard University Press
  • If you’re so forgetful that you’re incapable of remembering that a co-worker isn’t pregnant on three separate occasions in as many months, I worry about your memory and cognition skills.

    "Just a Little Crush". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 7, 2016.
  • I'm insane, not forgetful.

    Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.269, Penguin
  • Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

  • Just because you're old that doesn't mean you're more forgetful. The same people whose names I can't remember now I couldn't remember fifty years ago. . .

    Funny   Humorous   Mean  
  • Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

    Yoga   Fall   Mind  
  • Absence makes the heart grow fonder… or forgetful.

  • The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.

    Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com
  • Think then what it is to live on here eternally and yet be human; toage in soul and see our beloved die and pass to lands whither we maynot hope to follow; to wait while drop by drop the curse of the longcenturies falls upon our imperishable being, like water slow drippingon a diamond that it cannot wear, till they be born anew forgetful ofus, and again sink from our helpless arms into the void unknowable.

    Love   Fall   Thinking  
    H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.6785, Delphi Classics
  • Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful?

  • The mind unlearned in reverence, says Bonaventure (1221-1274), is in danger of becoming so captivated by the spectacle of beings as to be altogether forgetful of being in itself; and our mechanistic approach to the world is nothing but ontological obliviousness translated into a living tradition.

    Mind   Becoming   World  
  • These are very unskillful comparisons to represent so precious a thing, but I am not clever enough to think out any more: the real truth is that joy makes the soul so forgetful of itself, and of everything, that it is conscious of nothing, and able to speak of nothing, save of that which proceeds from its joy... Let us join with this soul, my daughters all. Why should we want to be more sensible than she? What can give us greater pleasure than to do as she does? And may all the creatures join with us for ever and ever. Amen, amen, amen.

    Love   Daughter   Clever  
  • Nobody is forgotten, when it is convenient to remember him.

    Benjamin Disraeli's letter to Lord Stanhope, July 17, 1870.
  • As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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