Since the moment of self-consciousness comes to a permanent end - and a new journey begins- is such a decisive stroke or… — Bernadette Roberts Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
“The misfortune of solitary and timid people - who are timid from self-consciousness - is just that, though they have eyes and… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
I've never quite felt totally comfortable up on stage. I've gotten more comfortable, but drinking wine is a crutch that gives me… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
I really think that if there's any one enemy to human creativity, especially creative writing, its self-consciousness. And if you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves. — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“If I had a reader and he had read all I have written so far of my adventures, there would be certainly… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I think those moments in Patti's [Smith] bedroom really helped the film [Dream of Life] out, and those moments existed because of… — Steven Sebring Copy Share Image
“Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcome self-consciousness and the fear that paralyzes me before an audience?" Did you… — Dale Breckenridge Carnegie Copy Share Image
When self-consciousness stops, there is nothing -nothing left to stop, start, begin or end. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The task of science, therefore, is not to attack the objects of faith, but to establish the limits beyond which knowledge cannot… — Rudolf Virchow Copy Share Image
Free passion is radiation without a radiator, a fluid, pervasive warmth that flows effortlessly. It is not destructive because it is a… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness. — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
... my today's self perpetually slips out of any hold of it that I may try to take. — Gilbert Ryle Copy Share Image
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet,… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I didn't really want to hurt myself. I just wanted my old body back. That, and my old sense of normalcy, which… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image