Quotes about Consciousness
the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, "I'll be dead," you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul — it was a consequence of grammar.
— Margaret Atwood
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
— Margaret Atwood
she was beginning to emerge from the initial sex-induced coma created by him through
— Margaret Atwood
We have learned to see the world in gasps.
— Margaret Atwood
The person who has stopped being thankful has fallen asleep in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
— Richard Baxter
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
— Milan Kundera
I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep.
— Walt Whitman
At any moment in time, our reality is based on whatever we focus on.
— Tony Robbins
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.
— Anne Frank
Are you willing to see what you are seeing, and to know what you know?
— Anne Lamott
How alive am I willing to be?
— Anne Lamott