Quotes About Unconsciousness

Life would be intolerable if we were conscious of it. Happily, we are not. We live with the same unconsciousness as animals, in the same futile vain way, and if we think in advance about death (which they, in all probability, without being dogmatic do not do), we think about it through the veils of so many oblivions, so many distractions and meanderings, that it can hardly be said we think about it at all.

To sleep, to be far away, remote without knowing it, to forget with one's very body, to have the freedom of unconsciousness like a refuge on a forgotten lake, stagnating among thick foliage in the hidden depths of forests

La Decadencia es la pérdida total de la inconsciencia, pues la inconsciencia es el fundamento de la vida. Si el corazón pudiera pensar, se detendría.

There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.

Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.

You know what I really want?' Bruce said. 'Some business cards with Bruce Norris Kicked Your Arse printed on them. I can stick them in people's mouths when I knock them unconscious, just in case they don't remember me when they come round.' 'Bruce, what you need,' Kyle said, 'is some serious time with a psychiatrist.

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it.

She laughed at herself for this fancy at first; but not possessing the sweet unconsciousness of those heroines who can live through three volumes with a burning passion before their eyes, and never see it till the proper moment comes

I relax into a black unconsciousness. I dive in, submerse, and breathe oblivion, my favorite element.

1. Helping students get clear on the intention they want to create in their future; 2. Programing their conscious mind, as well as their unconscious mind, into that new future; 3. Changing their brain and body to biologically look like the future has already happened; 4. Repeatedly associating those pictures and images with music to create new neural networks in the brain and to emotionally recondition the body to a new mind. It's a way for them to remember their future.

They are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

Just as he dropped with a jerk into the pit of unconsciousness, he thought how odd it was that he was falling asleep in his sleep. When he entered the dream that he was dreaming, later, it was a dream within the dream he dreamed originally when he lay down in his bed.

the last few months had passed in a kind of delirium

Unamuno says: "The prehistoric is unconsciousness; it is the void." (This of course is literature, but it sounds convincing.) Nobody knows anything about the prehistoric!

One pays nothing for the idiocy of one else; however, idiot pays its respect, whether consciously or unconsciously.

It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of—namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious auto-biography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) purpose in every philosophy has constituted the true vital germ out of which the entire plant has always grown.

Death is the creation of the unaware, because

I enjoyed myself as much as I could, trying consciously or unconsciously to fill the void with jokes.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.

He really did not care whether he survived or not, so long as it rendered him unconscious and absolved him of responsibility.

I made an effort to speak: "When I came in here…" I said, "… I had a sandwich." "That was three months ago," said the doctor. I looked at him. "It's gone," he said, gently. I lapsed back into unconsciousness.