Bret Easton Ellis Quotes

I walk into rooms and I don't know why I'm there. I'm like, 'Why am I standing in front of the toilet now?'

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

My great frustration is that, more and more, my memories come and go, and friends all my life are not recognized. Many of the things I say and do, I can no longer remember even right afterwards.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

It's a weakness of mine to forget what it is I've just been talking about so that when people make witty allusions to it, I stare at them open-mouthed, not knowing what they're talking about.

I don't even know my own phone number.

I have a terrible memory.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

I don’t remember.

I have a really terrible memory.

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

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

My memory is so bad that many times I forget my own name.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

Hey, if you can't remember, don't worry about it. I'm having a few memory problems myself in this place. Little things like how long I've been here, what my purpose in life is, which feet to put my shoes on. Stuff like that.

Right. I'd forgotten about her.' He shook his head. 'That keeps happening.

Tip-of-the-tongue syndrome is when people almost remember something but need a computer, or someone else, to help them find it. The problem is, our brains have always been terrible at remembering details. They were like that way before the Internet came along.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

My memory's pretty much gone.

I've never worked with a tail, that I can remember. But there's so much I can't remember.

You suddenly find yourself somewhere and you wonder, how did I get in this room? That happens to me all the time, every day!

I can't remember anything I ever wrote.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

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