Forget Him Quotes

• 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

  Love, Hope, Pain

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Aug 19, 2016

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• Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Light, Tonight

  Emily Dickinson, “Heart, We Will Forget Him”

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• Heart, we will forget him! You and I, to-night! You may forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light. When you have done, pray tell me, That I my thoughts may dim; Haste! lest while you’re lagging, I may remember him!

  Emily Dickinson

  Heart, Night, Light

  Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy Lowell, Sara Teasdale (2018). “Wild Nights: Heart Wisdom from Five Women Poets”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• Our dad was a great guy and we will never forget him.

  Lara St. John

  Dad, Guy, Never Forget

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• He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Motivational, Forget, Grows

  “Whosoever Will Save His Life” by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. August 1982.

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• That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.

  Jennifer Worth

  Forget, Trouble, Mines

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• A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions.

  Raymond A. Spruance

  Business, Men, Decision

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• The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Forget, Individual

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• No tongue is able to declare the greatness of the love that Jesus bears to every soul: and therefore this Spouse, when he would leave this earth, in order that his absence might not cause us to forget him, left us as a memorial this Blessed Sacrament, in which he himself remained; for he would not that there should be any other pledge to keep alive our remembrance of him than he himself.

  Peter of Alcantara

  Jesus, Blessed, Greatness

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• Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the courage to believe in the mercy of the holy God.

  Karl Rahner

  Faith, Believe, Inspiration

  Karl Rahner (1961). “Theological investigations”, Not Avail

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• And I have tried to forget him, I have tried to convince myself that it was just one of those things, but it’s difficult to do that when my body is standing here, eight feet deep in the earth of northern France, while my heart remains by a stream in a clearing in England where I left it weeks ago.

  John Boyne

  Heart, Eight, Feet

  "The Absolutist". Book by John Boyne, 2011.

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• I couldn't get Him out of my head. Still can't. I spent three solid days thinking about Him. The more He bothered me, the less I coul forget Him. And the more I learned about Him, the less I wanted to leave Him.

  Yann Martel

  Thinking, Three, Forget

  Yann Martel (2012). “Life Of Pi, Illustrated”, p.90, Canongate Books

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• Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

  Johanna Spyri

  Beautiful, Good Night, Morning

  Johanna Spyri (2015). “Heidi”, p.47, First Avenue Editions

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• She was still under the spell of her infatuation. She had tried to forget him, realizing the inutility of remembering. But the thought of him was like an obsession, ever pressing itself upon her. It was not that she dwelt upon details of their acquaintance, or recalled in any special or peculiar way his personality; it was his being, his existence, which dominated her thought, fading sometimes as if it would melt into the mist of the forgotten, reviving again with an intensity which filled her with an incomprehensible longing.

  Kate Chopin

  Personality, Special, Details

  Kate Chopin (2006). “Awakening EasyRead Edition”, p.98, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. And if I forget him, I may become like the grown−ups who are no longer interested in anything but figures.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  May, Forget, Figures

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• To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Lying, Forgiving

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• The most offensive egotist is he that fears to say "I" and "me." "It will probably rain" - that is dogmatic. "I think it will rain" - that is natural and modest. Montaigne is the most delightful of essayists because so great is his humility that he does not think it important that we see not Montaigne. He so forgets himself that he employs no artifice to make us forget him.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Rain, Humility, Thinking

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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• My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him.

  Dorothy Parker

  Girl, Sweet, Strong

  Dorothy Parker (1936). “Not So Deep as a Well”, Macmillan Company of Canada

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• He has oratory who ravishes his hearers while he forgets himself.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Oratory, Forget, Eloquence

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• When a man forgets himself, he usually does something everybody else remembers.

  James Coco

  Men, Doe, Remember

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• Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

  Knowledge, Men, Identity

  Commencement Speech by Anna Quindlen, www.mtholyoke.edu. 1999.

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• We deserve to be forgotten because we forget Him. But because Jesus died on the cross, we will never, ever be forgotten by God.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Forget, Forgotten

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Believe, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Self, Losing

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.93

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• God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.

  A. B. Simpson

  Jesus, Men, Giving

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