Quotes About Consciousness

Darwinian biologists must keep repeating that reminder to themselves because otherwise they might become conscious of the reality that is staring them in the face and trying to get their attention."7

Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?

This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

The deeper reality is that I'm not sure if what I do is real. I usually believe that I'm certain about how I feel, but that seems naive. How do we know how we feel?…There is almost certainly a constructed schism between (a) how I feel, and (b) how I think I feel. There's probably a third level, too—how I want to think I feel.

The Three Little Pigs" is not the story that is fucking people up. Stories like Say Anything are fucking people up. We don't need to worry about people unconsciously "absorbing" archaic secret messages when they're six years old; we need to worry about all the entertaining messages people are consciously accepting when they're twenty-six. They're the ones that get us, because they're the ones we try to turn into life.

It was a version of nothing so close to something it accidentally became everything.

People will look at the world without seeing anything beyond their unconscious expectation.

There's simply no way around the limited ceiling of my own mind.

Everyone's in their own personal coma.

With insomnia, you're never really awake; but you're never really asleep.

Here in your mind you have complete privacy. Here there's no difference between what is and what could be.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. To be or not to be. Every time you don't throw yourself down the stairs, that's a choice. Every time you don't crash your car, you re-enlist.

Want to talk third wave feminism, you could cite Ariel Levy and the idea that women have internalized male oppression. Going to spring break at Fort Lauderdale, getting drunk, and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to even know she's in distress.

Ask yourself: What did I eat for breakfast today? What did I eat for dinner last night? You see how fast reality fades away?

This is the greatest momemt of your life and your out missing it

So if reality is all a spell, and you don't really want what you think you want... If you have no free will. You don't really know what you know. You don't really love who you only think you love. What do you have left to live for?

You wake up, and that's enough.

Screw the idea of inventing monsters. Here, we just had to look around. Pay attention.

No memory is anything more than a personal choice.

What she's learned is what she always learns. Plato was right. We're all of us immortal. We couldn't die if we wanted to. Every day of her life, every minute of her life, if she could just remember that.

How do you live knowing your every cell and drop of blood are part of the big evil?