Self consciousness Quotes

Excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

“An insane self-consciousness made him commit thousands of blunders.”

— Stendhal

Inner guilt always bites self consciousness.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all creativity.”

— Ray Bradbury

Self-consciousness kills communication.

— Rick Steves

“Her words washed over him reversing his self-consciousness over the years.”

— Twyla Turner

One thing that blocks flow is self-consciousness.

— Ariel Gore

“The highest form of consciousness is self-consciousness”

— Thabiso Monkoe

Nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist...

— Ernest Gellner

The best thing about bugs is their lack of self consciousness, also the ability to fly doesn't hurt.

— Dov Davidoff

Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.

— Sylvia Plath

“Undesirable things that man can alter (e.g., his weight), he alters. Those that he cannot (e.g., his height), he calls the will…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“For you to be great, you must live a life of self-consciousness all the time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?”

— Mark Doty

“Alcohol is one of the quickest vehicles with which we escape shyness, our problems, and self-consciousness, for a few hours.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

— Mignon McLaughlin

If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with…

— Cate Blanchett

The unlived life is not worth examining. ... Self-awareness, self-examination, self-consciousness are for the quiet moments. In the arena they are paralyzing.…

— Jo Coudert

The time is probably not far distant when music will stand revealed perchance as the mightiest of the arts, and certainly as…

— Hugh Reginald Haweis

“I don't want to hide. I don't want to be alone. I don't want to wander off into the desert in shame…

— Anne Clendening

From taking photographs of George and Charlotte, I have been struck by the wonderful lack of self-consciousness that you see in photographs…

— Kate Middleton

I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my…

— Alexandra Bracken

“Self-consciousness is, from a naturalistic point of view (in this case neurobiological), not more than a degree of sophistication of neural processes.…

— István Aranyosi

The years between 1800 and 1825 were distinguished, so far as our domestic development was concerned, by the growth of the Western…

— Herbert Croly

“I wonder whether you have noticed that man is the only animal who draws his picture, his own picture. No other animal…

— Osho

“Year by year, his life wasn't amounting to anything at all...And yet, another part of him had expanded: his self-consciousness, his self-pity…

— Kiran Desai

“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have…

— Stephen Fry

The moment you frame your own awareness within a second level of self -consciousness is the moment your mind is most up…

— Douglas Rushkoff

Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a…

— Chogyam Trungpa

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's…

— Tom Hanks

It is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness; to make us more aware of what we…

— J. W. N. Sullivan

Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or…

— Bernadette Roberts

“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have…

— Stephen Fry

“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

“In a deserted stretch of the Karadj highway Munis had come face-to-face with unbridled lust, although she knew what lust was before…

— Shahrnush Parsipur

“What one should add here is that self-consciousness is itself unconscious: we are not aware of the point of our self-consciousness. If…

— Slavoj Žižek

“Daisuke was the sort of man who, once he was disturbed by something, no matter what, could not let go of it…

— Natsume Sōseki

“She tries to maintain a nondescript exterior; she learns the sideways glance instead of looking at people directly. She speaks in practised,…

— Mohammed Hanif

“This is it, I think, this is it, right now, the present, this empty gas station, here, this western wind, this tang…

— Annie Dillard

“Moreover, probably owing to excessive self-consciousness, perhaps as the result of the generally unfortunate cast of my personality, there existed between my…

— Ivan Turgenev