Quotes About Consciousness

Doug Motel makes 'conscious comedy'. He makes me laugh, and he makes me think.

Life is too short to just go through the motions.

I know I am an android, but I feel so ... happy.

When your afraid,reallyafraid, you see things you never saw before, you pay attention to the world.

Stories are for those late hours in the night when you can't remember how you got from where you were to where you are.

Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.

Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral.

She'd say amazing things sometimes. Once you're alive, she'd say, you can't ever be dead.

Maybe it's a crackpot theory, but in the aftermath of my sickness, I've often wondered if what we call insanity might be a biological response to mankind's consciousness of its own mortality, a way of unknowing what we know, a defense against the specter of nothingness and foreverness and intolerable finality.

The world had kenneled a vicious lie in my brain…

The things that influenced my conduct as a Negro did not have to happen to me directly; I needed but to hear about them to feel their full effects in the deepest layers of my consciousness.

That room - once you enter it, you never really leave. You can forget you're there, you can go on as if you hold the reins, that the course of your life, yeah even its length, will reflect the force of your character and the wisdom of your judgments. And then you hit an icy path on a turn one sunny March day and the wheel in your hands becomes a joke and you no more than a spectator to your own dreamy slide toward the verge, and then you remember where you are.

Memory is a dream to begin with.

The world, finally, is no longer large, and to ignore it likely requires more effort than to simply take notice.

Unlike other animals we are aware of our instincts, and as a result may attempt to shape or control them.

Unpleasant feelings merely indicate that you are thinking something negative and believing it. Your

How much better life would be if we began the day with a poem rather than the empty prattle of newspapers, with their diet of fear, hate, envy and jealousy.

The next morning, Malcolm thought long and hard before waking up, for he had come to recognise over the past quarter of a century that rather less can go wrong if you are asleep.

What happens to them matters to them.

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.

We approach the divine by enlarging our souls and lighting up our brains.

A book no more contains reality than a clock contains time.

It might be noted here that Freudian analysts of fairy tales have suggested that kissing toads and frogs is symbolized fellatio. In that regard, Princess Leigh-Cheri was, on a conscious level, innocent, although not so naïve as Queen Tilli, who though fellatio was an obscure Italian opera and was annoyed that she couldn't find the score.

Mystery is the face everybody shared before they were born and the joke they'll finally get after they're dead.