Quotes About Consciousness

knew myself to be quite sane. I briefly entertained the notion that I was insane and didn't know it. Then I considered the possibility that I had always been insane, acknowledged it as more likely than the former, then pushed

Sometimes my mouth just starts talking and it takes my mind a little bit to catch up.

Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself.

Senin fark?na varmas? için yanl?? çalmak zorundaysan, o zaman hiç fark?na varmas?n daha iyi.

For people could close their eyes to greatness, to horrors, to beauty, and their ears to melodies or deceiving words. But they couldn't escape scent.

Por un momento, durante unos segundos, durante toda una eternidad, según se le antojó a él, el tiempo se dobló o desapareció por completo, porque ya no sabía si ahora era ahora y aquí era aquí, o ahora era entonces y aquí era allí

It was as if he had been born a second time; no, not a second time, the first time, for until now he had merely existed like an animal with a most nebulous self-awareness.

It is said that the only thing deeper than the sleep of the just is the sleep of the just after, but

I think space will be conquered through the mind rather than the clumsy medium of space travel.

We all know that one of the most successful ways to stop pain and presence is to drink or use other drugs. The reason that drunks are dangerous and boring is that they are not there with you, but are lost in another world. Driving when drunk is destructive because you are not present to the road and the traffic around you. You are not in a place of survival and your inability to survive could harm others.

What is the soul? What color is it? I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return. I did my best not to fall asleep, to keep it inside of me where it belonged.

The trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up.

What is nothing? I impetuously asked. -It is what you can see of your eyes without a mirror, was the answer.

We seek to stay present, even as the ghosts attempt to draw us away.

I suspected my soul, being mischievous, might slip away while I was dreaming and fail to return.

Some dreams aren't dreams at all, just another angle of physical reality.

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory.

You don't see things like that. You feel them, as in all important things; they arrive, they come into your dreams.

I clawed through a thick web of the culture's consciousness that I hadn't known existed.

My penance for barely being present in the world, not the world between the pages of books, or the layered atmosphere of my own mind, but the world that is real to others

I dreamed I was somewhere that was also nowhere.

Perhaps there is no past or future, only the perpetual present that contains this trinity of memory. — Patti Smith, M Train (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015)

Thoughts are real', he said. 'Words are real. Everything human is real, and sometimes we know things before they happen, even if we aren't aware of it. We live in the present, but the future is inside us at every moment. Maybe that's what writing is all about, Sid. Not recording events from the past, but making things happen in the future'.

It was never possible for him to be where he was. For as long as he lived, he was somewhere else, between here and there. But never really here. And never really there.