#amnesia

It all made sense — terrible sense. The panic she had experienced in the warehouse district because of not knowing what had happened had been superseded at the newsstand by the even greater panic of partial knowledge. And now the torment of partly knowing had yielded to the infinitely greater terror of knowing precisely ↗

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

#dissociation #dissociative #dissociative-amnesia #dissociative-identity-disorder #fugue

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up ↗

— Flora Rheta Schreiber

#amnesia #dissociation #dissociative-amnesia #dissociative-identity-disorder #fugue

Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness. ↗

— Judith Spencer

#amnesia #dissociation #madness #memory #memory-loss

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

— Luis Bunuel

#entire #entire life #erase #final #i

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

— David McCullough

#better #forgets #function #individual #nation

People change, he thought -it's truism- but how? Our life is confined to days, after all: Sunday to Monday, dusk to dawn. What great alterations can take place in someone between breakfast and lunch? Is it possible to wake up as one person and fall asleep as another? ↗

— Sam Taylor

#change

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

#building #case #develop #dime #electoral

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time. ↗

— Steven Wright

#deja #deja vu #having #i #now

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

— John Guare

#bad #become #did #history #live

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

— Steven Wright

#humor #memory #humor