Recovered Memory Quotes

#1. The other contested term is recovered memory therapy. As far as I can tell, no one practicsing psychotherapy today endorses this term as a descriptive of what they do... there are no self-described recovered memory therapists...

Richard J. McNally

#2. I'd thought I had recovered for good from that sadness, but as I felt my marriage disintegrate, the memory of my raw yearning for babies and my husband's refusal to have them with me came back to me as part of the reason I was now leaving him. It felt like the heart of why I was so lonely with him.

Kate Christensen

#3. Love does make us feel better, from the inside out.

Laura Lane

#4. If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to ... face a situation fearlessly, and if there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.

Florence Scovel Shinn

#5. A vast and abandoned world laid out in anonymous grids and quadrants, a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.

Bret Easton Ellis

#6. Life is not living, but living in health.

Martial

#7. It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim's response.

David Yeung

#8. He who seeks revenge should dig two graves.

Mick Haines

#9. The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most tenacious love is an ephemeral truth in the end

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable.

Seamus Deane

#11. I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally.

Lyle Lovett

#12. For every family of the pious ought to be a church.

John Calvin

#13. I am a person of the 18th century.

Cecilia Bartoli

#14. John Kerry described his Republican critics as 'the most crooked, lying group I've ever seen.' Now, that's saying something, because Kerry's both a lawyer and a politician.

Jay Leno

#15. To fight against pride, it is wise to surround ourselves with those who know us and love us enough to speak into our lives with words of correction and rebuke.

Paul Washer

#16. Reading trumps anything.

Belle Aurora

#17. It was the comfort of knowing that she was not quite so strange, that there were other people who found delight in private challenges and quiet lives. People who lived in their thoughts as much as in the real, physical world.

Daphne Kalotay

#18. You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, the disbelief is usually accompanied by massive self-hate and guilt. 'How can I even think such a thing? I must really be warped,' you tell yourself.

Renee Fredrickson

#19. Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez