Top 100 Quotes About Amnesia
#1. Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
Lauren Willig
#2. I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.
Patrick Modiano
#3. When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.
Jean-Claude Duvalier
#4. The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.
Sparky Anderson
#6. My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#7. Every time you go in, it's like starting over. You don't know how you did the other records. You're learning all over. It's some weird musician amnesia, or maybe the road wipes it out.
Beck
#8. Sometimes, PTSD sufferers will shut out memories of painful periods in their lives and experience amnesia. Thus, a traumatized individual might not remember when his spouse died in a car accident. Another person who was abused might have gaps in her memory of childhood.
Glenn Schiraldi
#9. I Cannot Remember You
... engulfed in liquid amnesia
I cannot fight the tide
Muse
#10. ... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it... the most corrosive part of this amnesia is a sense that because the nation is not what it was, it can never be anything again.
Jeremy Paxman
#11. Details can change or go missing entirely, particularly in moments of physical peril. A kind of amnesia goes hand in hand with sickness, and a good thing, too.
David Rakoff
#12. The overall commentary on what I'm doing is saying, 'Hey look! I get to create whatever persona I want to, and it's all up to me. And the truth is, we are all - basically the universe - pretending to be humans for a brief moment of time. With a little self-induced amnesia.
RuPaul
#13. We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?
John Guare
#14. Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.
Jean Baudrillard
#15. Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.
Alex London
#16. The summer remembers nothing of the winter and nature is a kind of amnesia.
Andrew O'Hagan
#17. But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself up, is blotted out; enters the darkness of her own body, forgets her name. Immolation is what she wants, however briefly. To exist without boundaries.
Margaret Atwood
#19. Amnesia constrains ambition and inoculates against patience. Still,
Noam Chomsky
#20. When we suffer from amnesia, every form of serious authority for faith is in question, and we live unauthorized lives of faith and practice unauthorized ministries.
Walter Brueggemann
#21. Global transformation can occur only when each individual has the courage to awaken from this amnesia to our true self and then make conscious choices true to our spirit. The human race is the only species on earth evolved enough to be capable of this privilege.
Patsie Smith
#22. I think you just made me forget my own name. Not even amnesia managed that.
Amy Andrews
#23. What the advocates of our dangerous and deepening social amnesia don't understand is how deeply the past holds the future in its grip - even, and perhaps especially, when it remains unacknowledged.
Timothy B. Tyson
#24. If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia.
Richard Bandler
#25. A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner
#26. The cutthroat savagery of high school romance inspired in nearly all adults a collective amnesia. Having survived it themselves, they locked those memories far away in some dark chamber of their subconscious where things that are too terrible to contemplate are permanently stored.
Richard Russo
#27. I'm helpless in post-round, hole-by-hole interviews. I can't take you through most of the holes of winning the Players Championship, the U.S. Amateur or Ryder Cup matches. It's like golf amnesia.
Matt Kuchar
#28. There are so few who 'walk the talk'..
No wonder the World is plagued with 'Talk Obesity' and 'Walk Anorexia'..
Walk the Talk Amnesia?
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#29. I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.
Rick Riordan
#30. Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is permitted to grow old slowly. Nobody talks of the past, for fear their wounds might reopen. Privately though, their wounds never heal.
Cristina Garcia
#31. Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around, said the poet Adrienne Rich.
Alfie Kohn
#32. For now, I'll let you please temporary amnesia," he said and lifted my chin to him. "But I'm never going to forget what it felt like when you were biting my lip instead of your own." -Trey to Monica, The Only Exception
Magan Vernon
#33. Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books
primarily it has to do with the future, a future not removed by thousands or tens of thousands of years, but the imminent future, on whose threshold we now stand.
Immanuel Velikovsky
#34. I had to bear witness in order to protect the future, bear witness in order to overcome the amnesia of my contemporaries.
Pierre Seel
#35. The Clinton's secret is that they live in a morally discontinuous universe-events do not have consequences, and what happened 15 minutes ago has no connection to what happens now. Beware of power when it masters the secret of popular amnesia.
Lance Morrow
#36. My head is killing me, my throat is killing me, my stomach bubbles with toxic waste. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid if this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#38. Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.
Lauren Kate
#39. Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia
Aimee Bender
#40. The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle.
Carol Tavris
#42. You know what I do to forget the past? I drink my own special concoction. I call it Milk of Amnesia.
Julie Anne Peters
#43. I don't think Kenya is the only country that tries to induce amnesia - it seems to be a global phenomenon. But offenses do not die. They do not disappear.
Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
#45. The music industry is really funny, when you have a hit record, everyone knows who are you, everyone wants to do duets with you, then if you have a miss, people suffer from amnesia.
Seal
#46. One evening I let a stranger buy me a round of a local specialty called, whimsically, amnesia ...
Elizabeth Kostova
#47. It's ironic that early on in the war with Afghanistan, the Americans and the British were saying, 'We recognise there must be a Palestinian state,' then they rapidly forgot about it. I think history will show that that kind of amnesia will come back to haunt you.
Tom Paulin
#48. He hated to admit it, but this was one of the things about demon amnesia that bothered him the most. What kind of seventeen-year-old guy doesn't know whether or not he's a virgin?
Cassandra Clare
#49. Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored.
Max Mayfield
#50. Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.
Rick Riordan
#51. The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.
Adrienne Rich
#52. Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.
Noam Chomsky
#53. I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
I think I've forgotten this before.
Barry F. Beck
#54. America has amnesia ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters.
Paula Gunn Allen
#55. Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.
Faith Baldwin
#58. Forgotten Front." Much of the amnesia was caused by Italians who'd
Mark T. Sullivan
#59. When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.
Jonathan Powell
#60. A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
David McCullough
#61. Time is not outside us, but inside. Only we live with past, present, and future, and the present is too brief to experience anyway; it is retained afterward and then it is either codified or it slips into amnesia.
Siri Hustvedt
#62. The ethics of eating people are blurry at best in the fog of my undead amnesia, but I expect more for such a high price. What I want are the moments I will never have. The warm ones. The living ones.
Isaac Marion
#63. I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.
Luis Bunuel
#64. Redistribution depends on three things, amnesia,meaning you don't remember the murderous paths of these beliefs. Envy, you hate the successful in the present and used, people who
have nothing to earn yet.
Jedediah Bila
#65. The good thing about being with a woman who has amnesia is that the conversation gets to be all about you
Carla Cassidy
#66. For now, I'll let you plead temporary amnesia," he said and lifted my chin to him. "But I'm never going to forget what it felt like when you were biting my lip instead of your own.
Magan Vernon
#67. [T]he greater the sense of awe with which a text was regarded, the more complete might be the amnesia as to the original circumstances of its composition.
Tom Holland
#68. Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.
Betty Hill
#69. Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right.5
Naomi Klein
#70. To build a winning team, you must help your players and staff have amnesia about past outcomes and remember all the little things they did to get better.
Jon Gordon
#71. We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!
Richard Trumka
#73. Amnesia is not knowing who one is and wanting desperately to find out. Euphoria is not knowing who one is and not caring. Ecstasy is knowing exactly who one is - and still not caring.
Tom Robbins
#74. Playing and fun are not the same thing, though when we grow up we may forget that and find ourselves mixing up playing with happiness. There can be a kind of amnesia about the seriousness of playing, especially when we played by ourselves.
Lynda Barry
#75. Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are.
Meir Kahane
#76. Look, when you get your memory back and can divulge all your secrets from the past, we'll have a sleepover and I'll tell you everything; but, as far as I'm concerned, until that day arrives, we both have amnesia.
Tarryn Fisher
#77. Amnesia and complete indifference to history (especially the history of technological amnesia) remain the defining features of contemporary Internet debate.
Evgeny Morozov
#78. Totalitarian states use propaganda to orchestrate historical amnesia, a state-induced stupidity. The object is to make sure the populace does not remember what it means to be free. And once a population does not remember what it means to be free, it does not react when freedom is stripped from it.
Chris Hedges
#79. The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
P. J. O'Rourke
#80. Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.
Thomas Ligotti
#82. I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.
Richard Hammond
#83. 15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall.
Betty Hill
#84. Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce.
Norman Mailer
#85. Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.
Steven Wright
#86. None of us had ever encountered, or even imagined, such a power of amnesia, the possibility of a pit into which everything, every experience, every event, would fathomlessly drop, a bottomless memory-hole that would engulf the whole world.
Oliver Sacks
#87. I wish I had amnesia so I could forget what you look like.
Lucy Christopher
#88. We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.
Gore Vidal
#89. Those who suffer from historical amnesia, the belief that we are unique in history and have nothing to learn from the past, remain children. They live in an illusion.
Chris Hedges
#90. People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia.
Gore Vidal
#91. our amnesia is a state-sponsored sport.
Louisa Lim
#92. Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand.
Babe Ruth
#93. There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
#94. I just want to sleep. A coma would be nice. Or amnesia. Anything, just to get rid of this, these thoughts, whispers in my mind. Did he rape my head, too?
Laurie Halse Anderson
#95. The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality.
Frederick Lenz
#96. When different identity states convey contradictory information and then have amnesia for what the other identity states said, the patient may be thought to be lying. This can appear to be characterological mendacity when it is not.
Elizabeth F. Howell
#98. We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia.
Angela Davis
#99. Very few people run around and get amnesia and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly of people have strokes and have comas and come out of them and do all the silly things we do on soaps.
Erika Slezak
#100. Aye, Captain. I have a good memory. Except for the amnesia.
Elaine Corvidae
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