On Forgetfulness

All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams. - Elias Canetti


The wind blows out, the bubble dies; The spring entomb'd in autumn lies; The dew dries up; the star is shot; The flight is past--and man forgot. - Oliver Wendell Holmes


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


Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience. - Ambrose Bierce


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. - Jack London