Amnesia Quotes - Page 3

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

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Memories, Passion, Loss

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• 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

  Past, Slips, Past Present And Future

  Siri Hustvedt (2011). “The Summer Without Men: A Novel”, p.33, Macmillan

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• Well! I feel happy these days. I've started taking a herbal anti-depressant. It's called Saint John's Wort. Apparently it's the best-selling anti-depressant in many places. It's the most popular anti-depressant in Germany... After, I'm guessing, amnesia.

  Emo Philips

  Germany, Saint, Guessing

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• 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

  Hate, Successful, Envy

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my great-grandparents were victims of the Great Hunger of the 1840's, even though I was named Thomas Emmet Hayden IV after the radical Irish nationalist exile Thomas Emmet, my inheritance was to be disinherited. My parents knew nothing of this past, or nothing worth passing on.

  Tom Hayden

  Home, Past, Passing On

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• We have no idea who we really are. Whatever glory bestowed, whatever glory is being restored, we thought the whole Christian thing was about... something else. Trying not to sin. Going to church. Being nice. Jesus says it is about healing your heart, setting it free, restoring your glory. A religious fog has tried to veil all that, put us under some sort of spell or amnesia, to keeup us from coming alive.

  John Eldredge

  Christian, Religious, Jesus

  John Eldredge (2008). “Eldredge 3 in 1 - Sacred Romance , Waking the Dead, Desire”, p.260, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's like he has emotional amnesia... I think you have to accept that the person you knew isn't there at the moment. I was witness to how much he loved you. I have the photos. This isn't the person we knew. I don't recognize this person. He's shed his skin." Her heart is broken too. She has to say the thing that will give me back my life. She draws on every reserve. I see how much it hurts her and it hurts me too. I came from her joy and her pain, I lived in it and I live in it now.

  Emma Forrest

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

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• Clearly, you can think back and see that a character has had enormous odds stacked against him and has to overcome them. It's usually a guy, I'm afraid. But then you're setting up a new movie you have amnesia about these meetings, when you've discussed it more analytically.

  Danny Boyle

  Character, Thinking, Odds

  "127 Hours - Danny Boyle interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• It would never occur to me to map my research against events in my life, and the recent history of globalization seems to be part of someone else's life. Still, maybe I have been trying to fill in a history or address that amnesia for the recent past. There's so much that's opaque about the ways in which extra layers of global governance have developed since Pax Americana and really accelerated in these last thirty, forty years.

  Keller Easterling

  Past, Trying, Globalization

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Immensity is always there, but we so often become numb to it, or deceive ourselves into thinking our own lives and selves are what's large. Step into the ocean or walk on Mount Tamalpais, and that kind of amnesia and self-centeredness isn't possible. Enter the natural world at all, you see existence emerge, ripen, fall and continue, and you can't help but feel more tender towards self and others. That summoning into the large and the shared is what poems exist also to do.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Ocean, Fall, Thinking

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• 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

  Names, Darkness, Use

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.261, Anchor

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• 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

  Secret, Events, Connections

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

  Charles Stross

  Memories, Dictator, Collectives

  Charles Stross (2006). “Glasshouse”, p.222, Penguin

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• This might explain why Obama gave billions to Wall Street crooks, and dragged the Iraq and Afghan wars on and on.
  Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing... We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our pseudo-Roman columns.

  Gore Vidal

  Wall, War, Rights

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• Amnesia may well be the highest sacrament in the great gray ritual of existence.

  Thomas Ligotti

  May, Gray, Existence

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.144, Random House

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• Every woman who has had experience with sexual violence of any kind has not just pain, and not just hurt, but has knowledge. Knowledge of male supremacy. Knowledge of what it is. Knowledge of what it feels like. And can begin to think strategically about how to stop it. We are living under a reign of terror. Now what I want to say is that I want us to stop accepting that that's normal. And the only way that we can stop accepting that that's normal is if we refuse to have amnesia everyday of our lives.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Pain, Thinking

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• 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

  Book, Past, Years

  Immanuel Velikovsky (2010). “Mankind in Amnesia”, p.11, Paradigma Ltd

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

  Frederick Lenz

  Personality, Samskara, Infancy

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• 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

  Running, Independent, Leader

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• 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.

  Donna Farhi

  Spiritual, Yoga, Mean

  Donna Farhi (2011). “Yoga Mind, Body & Spirit: A Return to Wholeness”, p.5, Macmillan

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• This ´world´ began to forget it was Oneness, like a dream forgetting it is the dreamer. With this amnesia came the phenomenon we call fear, an expression of All Possibility that cannot manifest within the balance of Oneness. Fear only comes with the illusion of division and separation when consciousness perceives itself as part and not the whole. Fear is the shadow of illusory disconnection.

  David Icke

  Dream, Expression, Oneness

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• Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity – you are in Christ

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Spiritual, Real, Heart

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• Since I knew I was going to make a film that was purely about emotions, and I knew that I ran the risk of being accused of amnesia relating to the social film, to prevent this I decided it would be good to have characters who were on the margins of society. These are characters for whom love is really the only way to know that they're alive.

  Louis Garrel

  Character, Love Is, Risk

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Governor Romney is suffering from political amnesia.

  Kelly Ayotte

  Political, Suffering, Governor Romney

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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