Amnesias Quotes

#1. In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

John Eccles

#2. Warm fog swirled in the canyon as we gradually descended. A hundred feet in front of us everything was lost in the fog and a hundred feet behind us everything was lost in the fog. We were walking in a capsule between amnesias.

Richard Brautigan

#3. If it's the thought that counts, then ignorance must use a calculator

Josh Stern

#4. The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#5. We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us.

Robert James Waller

#6. The two poles could sooner meet, than the love of Christ and the love of the world.

Thomas Brooks

#7. To keep my back from getting stiff, I have a strict regime every morning of stretching and do yoga once a week and Pilates. 'Strictly Come Dancing' in 2008 was great for my fitness.

Cherie Lunghi

#8. All religious and spiritual practices lead to one deep realisation: We Are One. All is One.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#9. For the Romanov regime fell under the weight of its own internal contradictions. It was not overthrown.

Orlando Figes

#10. Chastity ... has, even now, a religious importance in a woman's life, and has so wrapped itself round with nerves and instincts that to cut it free and bring it to the light of day demands courage of the rarest.

Virginia Woolf