Conscious Quote by Boris Pasternak

“Will you feel pain? Do the tissues feel their disintegration? In other words, what will happen to your consciousness? But what is consciousness? Let's…

— Boris Pasternak

“To be conscious is inevitably to be a hypocrite. We can stomach our own kind, or just enough of them who either prove useful…

— Thomas Ligotti

“What counts as genuine consciousness, I will argue, is conscious access-the simple fact that usually, whenever we are awake, whatever we decide to focus…

— Stanislas Dehaene

To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The English expression 'to fall asleep' is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being…

— Siri Hustvedt

Becoming conscious is of course a sacrilege against nature; it is as though you had robbed the unconscious of something.

— Carl Jung

Insomniacs will be familiar with that disastrous moment as you lie there in the dark, with your eyes shut, when you think, 'What does…

— Victoria Coren Mitchell

No matter what happens, I am conscious all the time.

— Thaddeus Golas

“Here is the crux of it: between the conscious and unconscious mind we are more complex and given to concept than we are just…

— Carol Bly

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

— Steven Wright

“When a person eats shortly before going to bed, digestion accompanies sleep. The two great physiological functions are completed together, leaving the maximum of…

— Adalbert De Vogue

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability…

— Siri Hustvedt