forgetting quotes

Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Philippians 3:13^14.

Les amours meurent par le de  go u" t, et l'oubli les enterre. Loves die from disgust, and forgetting buries them.

-Jean de La Bruye'  re
  Les Caracte'  res ou les m½urs de ce sie'  cle,'Du c½ur', no.32.

How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

- Alexander Pope
  'Eloisa to Abelard'.

Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The soul that rises with us, our life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy! Shades of the prison-house begin to close Upon the growing boy, But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, He sees it in his joy; The youth, who daily farther from the east Must travel, still is nature's priest, And by the vision splendid Is on his wayattended; At length the man perceives it die away, And fade into the light of common day.

-William Wordsworth
c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza 5 (published1807).