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Quotes About Unconscious

How could it be in that cavity-ridden body so much lasciviousness could fit, without her even knowing she had it.
~ Clarice Lispector
What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity comes from the part of the shadows that connect me to the world and to the creating unconscious of the world. Today is a night with many stars in the sky. It stopped raining.
~ Clarice Lispector
Other men are unaware of what they do when they are awake just as they are forgetful of what they do when they are asleep.
~ Heraclitus
either humanity, with all its culture, is a means for the unconscious, unreasonable, and purposeless world-power, or it is a means for the glorifying of God.
~ Herman Bavinck
To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.
~ Hermann Hesse
In psychological terms, the sacrifice of the ego-will adds energy to the unconscious, and leads to an activation of its symbols. This corresponds to the religious experience, in which the resurrection follows the crucifixion and the ego-will becomes one with the will of God.
~ Unknown
People who like to fix other people become "catastrophizers. Fixing becomes an unconscious way of preventing a "what if" from happening.
~ Unknown
There were certain Ray Charles albums and a couple of early Marvin Gaye records that I used to listen to with a vengeance. That's how you forge a style. It excites you, and you lean toward it almost unconsciously. I was also a Beatles fanatic, but I didn't emulate them the way I did the R&B artists.
~ Michael McDonald
Acaso no estábamos todos locos cuando dormíamos? ¿Qué era el sueño, al fin y al cabo, sino el proceso por el cual vaciábamos nuestra demencia al pozo oscuro del inconsciente quedando así listos para levantarse a la mañana siguiente y a desayunarnos con cereales en lugar de hacerlo con los niños del vecino? -Dexter
~ Jeff Lindsay
Hey," he said, and we all turned to look at him. Deke nodded at the floor. "The lady fainted," he said, and we all turned to look where he had nodded. Mrs. Aldovar, as advertised, was out cold on the floor.
~ Jeff Lindsay
But there is always something the victim does unconsciously, some special trigger that brings a Passenger up out of the shadows and into the driver's seat. Every Monster has his own specific flash point that ignites the Need, and it is almost always different.
~ Jeff Lindsay
I do like cats. They are so unconsciously amusing. There is such a comic dignity about them, such a How dare you! Go away, don't touch me sort of air.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Havia a ansiedade de que uum dia não se sucedesse ao outro, junto com a certeza de que certamente se sucederia. Era como prender a respiração, como Udayan tentara fazer na baixada. E, no entanto, de alguma maneira ela estava respirando. Assim como o tempo ficava parado, mas também passava, alguma outra parte de seu corpo que lhe era inconsciente estava agora extraindo oxigêncio, obrigando-os a continuar.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Our unconscious is like a vast subterranean factory with intricate machinery that is never idle, where work goes on day and night from the time we are born until the moment of our death.
~ Milton Sapirstein
If the unconscious must express itself it will do so through the work that you do consciously or subconsciously, with words, with what you have to say.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
~ J. D. Salinger
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
~ Tupac Shakur
Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd.
~ Unknown
The Magician represents the man who has attained harmony and equilibrium between the spontaneity of the unconscious (in the sense given to it by C. G. Jung) and the deliberate action of the conscious (in the sense of "I" or ego consciousness).
~ Valentin Tomberg
A hundred yards away, Mike Newton was lowering Bella's limp body to the sidewalk. She slumped unresponsively against the wet concrete, her skin chalky as a corpse. I almost took the door off the car.
~ Stephenie Meyer
Jungians call the "collective unconscious".
~ Peter Kreeft
Even the slang of the time – 'Isn't it killing' – had an inbuilt and not entirely unconscious irony.
~ Philip Hoare
Perhaps your definition of your self-system lacks authentic boundaries. You've erected a precarious structure of personality on unconscious factors over which you have no control. That's why you feel threatened by me.
~ Philip K. Dick
Consciousness of unconsciousness
~ Philip K. Dick