Amnesia Quotes

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

  Meir Kahane

  Suffering, Causes, Forget

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• Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Time, Humor

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

  Angela Davis

  Forgetfulness, Depends

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

  Luis Bunuel

  Memories, Waiting, Finals

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Driving, Genocide, Form

  Jean Baudrillard (1989). “America”, p.9, Verso

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

  David McCullough

  Past, History, Forget

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• I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost in many ways. And we live in a society that invests huge amounts of money and vast quantities of energy in ensuring that we all stay lost. A society that invests in creating unconsciousness, which invests in keeping people asleep so that we are just passive consumers or products and not really asking any of the questions.

  Graham Hancock

  Believe, Thinking, Roots

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

  Gore Vidal

  United States, Politics, Remember

  Gore Vidal (2004). “Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of Amnesia”, p.7, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• 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

  Dream, Reality, Sometimes

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). “Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations”, p.185, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The liar often suffers from amnesia. Amnesia is the silence of the unconscious.

  Adrienne Rich

  Liars, Lying, Silence

  Adrienne Rich (2002). “Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We should draw on our story, we should draw on our history. If we don't know who we are, if we don't know how we became what we are, we're going to start suffering from all the obvious detrimental effects of amnesia.

  David McCullough

  Suffering, Stories, Who We Are

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.

  Elijah Muhammad

  Self, America, People

  Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.39, Secretarius MEMPS Publications

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• You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Thinking, Identity, Christ

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• I keep forgetting about your amnesia. Heh. Forgetting about amnesia. That's funny.

  Rick Riordan

  Forget

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• 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

  Starting Over, Over You, Musician

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

  John Guare

  Past, World, States

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

  Jean-Claude Duvalier

  People, Giving, Laughing

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• Every day huge amounts of information break off like icebergs and melt away. What worries me is that much information in electronic form is never reduced to paper. Some people have described this as being on the edge of a digital Dark Age and fear we may commit a massive act of amnesia.

  Paul Saffo

  Dark, Break Off, Worry

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• The biggest thing is you cannot be afraid to miss the game-winning shot. It's not that you want to make it; it's that you're not afraid to miss it. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong. You have to have amnesia. You're not afraid to make a play and it go wrong.

  John Calipari

  Missing, Not Afraid

  Source: www.lex18.com

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• 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

  Nice, Sleep, Mind

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Speak”, p.165, Macmillan

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• If it's worth feeling bad about, it's worthy of amnesia.

  Richard Bandler

  Feelings, Feeling Bad, Worthy

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

  Norman Mailer

  Affliction, Sauce, Flair

  Norman Mailer (2013). “Tough Guys Don't Dance: A Novel”, p.30, Random House

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• In a way, after you're done directing there is a sense of amnesia that washes over you, you can't exactly remember how you did things. It's a zone, just like an athlete, when they can't remember what they did, but somehow got it done.

  Rebecca Miller

  Athlete, Over You, Done

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Living in the present moment requires discretion toward memory. Without memory we'd have amnesia. What good would there be in that? Offer discretion and discernment for our past with a broad spectrum of forgiveness. As for our present moment, delight. And dedication to remain fully present to all the possibility.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Memories, Dedication, Past

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• 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

  Baseball, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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