Quotes About Consciousness

How many times can you look at something and know that everyone around you is seeing the same thing or at the very least that their brains and eyes are responding to the same phenomenon? How much proof do you ever have that we're all in the same world?

I Am a Strange Loop, by Doug Hofstadter

phenomenological

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person, and seeing them in the present and the past, concurrently

The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

There are no ghosts, but up here" --she gestured to her head-- "It's a haunted house.

Come on, Sadie. There'll always be another class. How many times can you look at something and know that everyone around you is seeing the same thing or at the very least that their brains and eyes are responding to the same phenomenon? How much proof do you ever have that we're all in the same world?

she had been struck by how the exact same route could look and feel so different. One minute, Sam was there, the game was completed, and the world was filled with potential. Twelve hours later, Sam was gone, the game was far from her thoughts, and the world was grim and murderous. It is the same world, she thought, but I am different. Or is it a different world, but I am the same? For a moment, she felt dangerously untethered from her body and from reality

There are no ghosts, but up here' -- she gestured toward her head-- 'it's a haunted house.

This is what time travel is. It's looking at a person and seeing them in the present and past, concurrently.

I catch myself. It's not that bad. But I occasionally switch a word with another word.

Do you leave the formulation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?

It is twenty-two degrees out, and when he wakes his hand is blue where it had rested on the ice. He stands and warms his hands on his jacket. He has never passed out in the middle of a run before. "Madame Olenska," he says. DR. ROSEN GIVES him a full examination. A.J. is in good health for his age, but there's something strange about his eyes that gives the doctor pause.

She feels very sorry for her mother because people who don't wake up can't go downstairs to the bookstore in the morning.

El cuerpo no sintió dolor pero solo porque el cuerpo no estaba.

Meanwhile, the question is not whether we should 'lose ourselves' - since all do so in one way or another - but where we lose ourselves: in light or in darkness, in good dreams or in nightmares, in truth or in falsehood.

Yes, if you believed in words, if you lived by words, you had better be careful which words you say and how you say them. You had better be careful what you look up, which words, which names. Jane Clifford, in The Odd Woman

Many of us are not consciously aware of such fears. With enough surface bravado to fool the people we meet, we fool ourselves as well. But the memory of formlessness is never far beneath. So we hasten to try on life's uniforms

I have always intended to live forever; but not until now, to live now.

Fear, anger, grief, or despair only exists when linked to a story! Yes, this is an amazing, simple, yet profound discovery. It is huge! You can actually recognize that what you are running away from does not, in truth, finally exist, and what you are running toward is already always here.

Reality is myself, reality is only the perception of this instant and it can't be related to another person.

It is clear that life naturally ends, and when the end comes, fear vanishes, because fear is itself a manifestation of life. On losing awareness and consciousness, life abruptly ends, and there can be no further thinking and no further meaning.