Regression Quotes

“Life is ten percent what you experience and ninety percent how you respond to it.”
― Dorothy M. Neddermeyer

“He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something -sub-human -something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in - anthropological studies! Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalski - survivor of the Stone Age! Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle! And you - you here - waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet! Night falls and the other apes gather! There in the front of the cave, all grunting like him, and swilling and gnawing and hulking! His poker night! - you call it - this party of apes! Somebody growls - some creature snatches at something - the fight is on! God! Maybe we are a long way from beng made in God's image, but Stella - my sister - there has been some progress since then! Such things as art - as poetry and music - such kinds of new light have come into the world since then! In some kinds of people some tendered feelings have had some little beginning! That we have got to make grow! And cling to, and hold as our flag! In this dark march towards what-ever it is we're approaching . . . Don't - don't hang back with the brutes!”
― Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire

“Nature has established patterns originating in the return of events, but only for the most part. New illnesses flood the human race, so that no matter how many experiments you have done on corpses, you have not thereby immposd a limit on the nature of events so that in the future they could not vary.”
― Gottfried Leibniz

“In a feast of fame and talks,
Scandal flashing, raising tongue and brows.
In a blast of bombing and power play,
Fear and death dig more revenge.

In a forgotten continent,
Famine and drought devour lives.
In an unfortunate eye of a rebelling weather,
Crashing homes, leaving many in devastation and desperation.

In a country shaking with violence,
Innocent victims cry for justice and peace.
In a home shaking with turmoil,
Humble patient, hiding voice wants to be heard.

In a tick of a second,
A new breathe of life beats!
To belong in this world.
Constantly changing, decaying or improving?

In a snap of innovation:
Life goes big leap!
Regression somewhere unseen,
But felt in a slow, long run.”
― Angelica Hopes, Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul

“Myth is already enlightenment, and enlightenment reverts to mythology.”
― Theodor W. Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment: Philosophical Fragments

“Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Regression lives on, not because of the unavailability of a better option but because of the inertia and fear of change. A known devil is NOT better than an unknown one because there is a fifty percent chance that unknown may not be a devil at all.”
― EverSkeptic

“After our earliest ancestors crawled out of the oceans, how soon did they feel the desire to crawl back in?”
― Sherman Alexie, War Dances

“You only live once. Maybe twice.”
― Stephanie Arnold, 37 Seconds: Dying Revealed Heaven's Help--A Mother's Journey

“History fancies itself linear - but yields to a cyclical temptation.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“The tyranny of maternal duty is not new, but it has become considerably more pronounced with the rise of naturalism, and it has thus far produced neither a matriarchy nor sexual equality, but rather a regression in women's status.”
― Élisabeth Badinter, The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women

“In today's world, honesty has unfortunately morphed into an extremely expensive hobby...and is no more a virtue that it once was. By the same token, not everyone has what it takes to pay the price for indulging in it and maintaining it, relentlessly, under all circumstances.”
― Mamur Mustapha

“All we may expect of time is its reversibility. Speed and acceleration are merely the dream of making time reversible. You hope that by speeding up time, it will start to whirl like a fluid. It is a fact that, as linear time and history have retreated, we have been left with the ephemerality of networks and fashion, which is unbearable. All that remain are the rudiments of a supratemporal peripeteia—a few short sequences, a few whirling moments, like the ones physicists observe in certain particles.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories

“Unlike that of a society, the spiritual or intellectual awakening of a person is irreversible.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“We’re thinking beings, Inspector. And any system, any government, or any philosophy that doesn’t encourage thought is doomed. Stagnation. Regression. Extinction.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“When you want to comfort someone don’t listen to their words; the words may be misleading or wrong…go straight to their heart, straight to their hurt. Their words may be pushing you away, but they still need comforting.”
― Brian L. Weiss, Through Time Into Healing

“I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past.”
― Amit Abraham

“Basic misunderstandings about DID encountered in the therapeutic community include the following:

° The expectation that all clients with DID will present in a Sybil-like manner, with obvious switching and extreme changes in personality.
° That therapists create DID in their clients.
° That DID clients have very little control over their internal systems and can be expected to stay in the mental health system indefinitely.
° That alter personalities, especially child alters, are simply regressive states associated with anxiety or that switching represents a psychotic episode.

Anyone who experiences dissociation on a regular basis knows better, however. DID is not only disruptive to everyday life but is also confusing and, at times, frightening.”
― Deborah Bray Haddock

“The recession and regression of any society are always an indication of how poorly the citizens of that country understand the value of time.”
― Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

“Technological progression can lead to or be a sign of cultural regression.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“I don't want to progress, I want to regress. [...] Do you know why I called my first book Tropic of Cancer? It was because to me cancer symbolizes the disease of civilization, the endpoint of the wrong path, the necessity to change course radically, to start completely over from scratch... Yes, from scratch, no question about it, for better or for worse... What I want is to halt evolution, to go backward down the path we have taken, to back to the world before childhood, to regress, regress, regress, further and further, until we get to the place we have only lately left behind, where culture and civilization do not figure... It is time that we start to think, to feel, to see the universe in a way that is uncultivated, primitive - but this is also without doubt the most difficult thing in the world to do.”
― Henry Miller

“Amokläufe, Kriege und destruktives Verhalten im Allgemeinen sind Folgeerscheinungen unbewußter Abwehrvorgänge, wenn verdrängte suizidale Tendenzen in Massenmord und Zerstörung umgesetzt und in ihnen manifest werden.”
― Andrej Poleev, Metaanalysis of psychoanalysis

“We are regressing from narrow mindedness to nano mindedness".”
― Amit Abraham

“Like so many sons and daughters before and after him, Henry had returned home feeling mature and confident only to be reduced to adolescence in a matter of hours.”
― Lorenz Wagner, The Boy Who Felt Too Much: How a renowned neuroscientist and his son changed our view of autism forever

“It’s extremely unlikely you will be magically transformed from a mediocre or average people manager to a Satya Nadella or a Ratan Tata. You will often revert to type and repeat your bad behaviors. But if you become aware of this retrogressive behavior and can reduce the frequency and severity of this you can change over time, not overnight.”
― Binod Shankar, Let's Get Real: 42 Tips for the Stuck Manager

“The devolution of sense is the evolution of nonsense.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“Inskränkthet underblåser regression,
Regression föder diskriminering.
Trångsynthet underlättar fördomar,
Fördomar underlättar fragmentering.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Världsviking: Gudomlig Poesi

“⸢A regressor actually doesn't regress. What actually regresses isn't him, but everything else excluding him.⸥”
― Singshong, Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, Vol. 4

“Yoo Joonghyuk felt lonely as he saw the watches. They got their time back but he still wasn't living in his time.

Yoo Joonghuyk suddenly thought, "If so, where do I live in these countless hours?”
― Singshong (싱숑)

“We are not the only country that becomes
way more
progressive or regressive
depending on who gets into office.
This is the way of the world.

Your vote matters.

Whatever your reasons,
whatever your objections,
you're not a part of our political process
unless you vote.

All politics is local,
all politics is national,
all politics is global.”
― Shellen Lubin