Top 25 Amnesia Quotes

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.

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

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

Millions of ordinary Americans may suffer from a toxic combination of ignorance and amnesia, but the victims of U.S. coups, invasions, and bombing campaigns across the globe tend not to. Ask the Iraqis or the Iranians, ask the Cubans or the Chileans. And, yes, ask the North Koreans.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Only medical hypnosis is capable of opening up amnesia.

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.

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

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.

All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces of sunlight through the fog and sudden rainbows, arcs-en-ciel. That is the effort, the labour of the Antillean imagination, rebuilding its gods from bamboo frames, phrase by phrase.

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!

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

I’ve always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the principal themes of detective novels are close to the things that obsess me: disappearance, the problems of identity, amnesia, the return to an enigmatic past.

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

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.

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

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

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.