Top 105 Amnesia Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Kissing tends to bring on woolgathering, even amnesia.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Selective amnesia is a good thing to have. So is good focus.

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.

Governor Romney is suffering from political amnesia.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I've forgotten this before.

For me, the Internet is the opposite of memory; the Internet is amnesia, it's about today and tomorrow is another day. Printed issues are about recording time, leaving a trace and making it relevant.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

I had amnesia once or twice.

To say goodbye is not to develop amnesia

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

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

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

I am horrified by the moral amnesia that develops when a dictator dies.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter.

Memory in America suffers amnesia.

Heartbreak is its own form of amnesia.

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

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

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.

Please excuse Jason from eternal damnation. He has had amnesia.

All my cop/gangster dramas have been spaced out, but somewhere, the films in which I played the bad guy were extremely successful, so people are under the impression that I play only such roles. I call it selective amnesia.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?