Quotes about Amnesia

The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious. Votes: 5

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

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. Votes: 5

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia. Votes: 4

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life. Votes: 4

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated. Votes: 4

Let us not suffer from a national amnesia that causes us to forget who and what we are. Votes: 4

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word? Votes: 4

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. Votes: 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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia Votes: 3

Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence. Votes: 3

People have forgotten the effects of prohibition. We have become the United Statesof Amnesia. Votes: 3

Short-term amnesia is not the worst affliction if you have an Irish flair for the sauce. Votes: 3

We live in a society of an imposed forgetfulness, a society that depends on public amnesia. Votes: 3

Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Votes: 3

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do. Votes: 3

I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

Success lulls you. It makes the most ambitious of us complacent and sloppy. In a way, you have to cultivate a kind of amnesia and forget all of your previous prosperity. Votes: 3

We are the United States of Amnesia, which is encouraged by a media that has no desire to tell us the truth about anything, serving their corporate masters who have other plans to dominate us. Votes: 3

Amnesia, which is a loss of memory, is a symptom of many different trauma and/or dissociative disorders, including PTSD, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Amnesia can affect both implicit and explicit memory. Votes: 3

The salient mystery of Dark Ages sets the stage for mass amnesia. People living in vigorous cultures typically treasure those cultures and resist any threat to them. How and why can a people so totally discard a formerly vital culture that it becomes vitally lost. Votes: 3

Human beings can be redeemed. Empires cannot. Our refusal to face the truth about empire, our refusal to defy the multitudinous crimes and atrocities of empire, has brought about the nightmare Malcolm predicted. And as the Digital Age and our post-literate society implant a terrifying historical amnesia, these crimes are erased as swiftly as they are committed. Votes: 3

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia. Votes: 1

15 minutes will open up the amnesia and you'll have full recall. Votes: 1

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. Votes: 1

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury. Votes: 1

That will only happen if I have a bout of amnesia or if I feel like mooning someone in the audience. Votes: 1

When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia. Votes: 1

The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

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! Votes: 1

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. Votes: 1

Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to look at Haiti from a psychological perspective. Most of the elite suffer from psychogenic amnesia. That means it's not organic amnesia, such as damage caused by brain injury. It's just a matter of psychology. Votes: 1

It is true that as people, we tend to remember only the positive. With time, the grim details fade away, and as a species we survive on this notion. In our desire to gloss over the undeniable macabre parts of our American history, we forget. That amnesia manifests itself, especially when dealing with the plight of black men. Votes: 1

Memory in America suffers amnesia. Votes: 0

I had amnesia once or twice. Votes: 0

The only human disease is amnesia. Votes: 0

Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia. Votes: 0

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia Votes: 0

Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia. Votes: 0

If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia. Votes: 0

Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia. Votes: 0

Read about your case of amnesia. Must be a new brand. Votes: 0

I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny. Votes: 0

The history of the women's movement in America follows a consciousness-amnesia cycle. Votes: 0

It was as if Japan had fallen victim to a case of collective amnesia Votes: 0

The memory of what is not may be better than the amnesia of what is. Votes: 0

Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs. Votes: 0

My father tutored me well on amnesia. He always said it was a necessary ingredient for any friendship. (Kiara) Votes: 0

Right now I'm having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I've forgotten this before. Votes: 0

... America has amnesia. ... Certainly, there is a passion for memory loss in American thought. ... Americans may be the world champion forgetters. Votes: 0

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality. Votes: 0

The samskaras that were developed in previous incarnations are usually hidden by the temporary amnesia of infancy and by the transient personality. Votes: 0

There is a permanent amnesia planted in us, which just as we keep forgetting our dreams, we sometimes keep on forgetting our reality. Votes: 0

Today's coastal development along with hurricane amnesia places modern man on a collision course with catastrophe if the lessons of history are ignored. Votes: 0

My goal is to be as forgiving as a man with amnesia, but love as if I remember and cherish all the things you do that make me smile. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Yoga is a technology for arriving in this present moment. It is a means of waking up from our spiritual amnesia, so that we can remember all that we already know. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0