My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Does the poem reside in experience or in self-consciousness about experience?” — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The main thing I don't like about myself is an absurd level of self-consciousness that makes any sort of social encounter an… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“One should be more concerned about what his conscience whispers than about what other people shout.” — Oscar Auliq-Ice Copy Share Image
... it is certain that the real function of art is to increase our self-consciousness — J. W. N. Sullivan Copy Share Image
The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“I feel myself. But it's only the eye with a lash in it, the swollen finger, the infected tooth that feels itself,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Man is the microcosm of the macrocosm ; the God on earth is built on the pattern of the God in nature.… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you think about Audrey Hepburn, I think she became more beautiful when she stopped being an actress and started working with… — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Well, think of what I’m doing to you right now. For me I’m the self, and you’re the object. For you, of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“None of this is important in itself, but I feel somewhere that it has a lot to do with why I have… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I wonder whether you have noticed that man is the only animal who draws his picture, his own picture. No other animal… — Osho Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“The mind cannot fall asleep as long as it watches itself. Only when the mind moves unwatched and becomes absorbed in images… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“ Self-Consciousness In addition to the divisions of specific and generalized social anxiety, experts also identify two types of self-consciousness: public self-consciousness… — Heather Moehn Copy Share Image
“[...] this observing self often kills and withers anything that is under its scrutiny. The individual has now a persecuting observer in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Blind thinking… could make me pretend I was being true to myself when really I was only being true to an infantile… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
“Well, it all comes to this, there's no use trying to live in other people's opinions. The only thing to do is… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
The pressure to look good is intense. It is hard to be immune to that and the self-consciousness that comes with it. — Lucy Boynton Copy Share Image
Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress… — Bruno Bauer Copy Share Image
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life. — Lucy Grealy Copy Share Image
Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of sub-consciousnessóI wouldnít know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of… — Aaron Copland Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, it's self-consciousness. — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
“When people find themselves in these conditions they lose their self-consciousness and sense of time. They report that the task itself becomes… — James P. Womack Copy Share Image
![“If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort…” quote by Bruce Springsteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/93d/bruce-springsteen-546_blow_if-you-re-up-there-on-stage-thinking-abo_1593313.jpg)
![“[...] this observing self often kills and withers anything that is under its scrutiny. The individual has now a persecuting observer in the very core of his being. It may be that the child becomes possessed by the alien and destructive presence of the observer who has turned bad in his absence…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/820/r-d-laing-4-155404_child-psychology_this-observing-self-often-kills-and-with_1378915.jpg)
