Best Self Consciousness Quotations

117 Self Consciousness quotes by 105 unique authors

Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths… — Virginia Woolf
So I should be aware of the dangers of self-consciousness, but at the same time, I’ll be plowing through the fog of all these echoes,… — Dave Eggers
Self-consciousness kills communication. — Rick Steves
It is solely by risking life that freedom is obtained; . . . the individual who has not staked his or her life may, no… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all. — Ray Bradbury
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
I sip my coffee. I look at the mountain, which is still doing its tricks, as you look at a still-beautiful face belonging to a… — Annie Dillard
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 course, it’s the… — Haruki Murakami
There's good self-consciousness, and then there's toxic, paralyzing, raped-by-psychic-Bedouins self-consciousness. — David Foster Wallace
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we… — Sylvia Plath
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my… — Stephen Fry
My own self-consciousness cries out to me coldly: how does one love zero? — Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
Self-consciousness, that's what it is. Always my abiding vice. I keep seeing myself. Me watching myself watching others watch me. How do you lose that?… — Stephen Fry
Result of self-consciousness: audience and actor are the same. I live my life as a spectacle for myself, for my own edification. I live my… — Susan Sontag
More than his exterior hit me. I felt warm and safe just being with him. He brought comfort after my terrible day. So often with… — Richelle Mead
Self-consciousness is not knowledge but a story one tells about oneself. — Simone de Beauvoir
All thought of something is at the same time self-consciousness [...] At the root of all our experiences and all our reflections, we find [...]… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty
In a world full of danger, to be a potentially seeable object is to be constantly exposed to danger. Self-consciousness, then, may be the apprehensive… — R. D. Laing
Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. — George Eliot
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
Like most qualities, cuteness is delineated by what it isn't. Most people aren't cute at all, or if so they quickly outgrow their cuteness ...… — William S. Burroughs
Like too much alcohol,self-consciousness makes us see ourselves double, and we make the double image for two selves - mental and material, controlling and controlled,… — Alan Watts
Our Christian destiny is, in fact, a great one: but we cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great. For our own… — Thomas Merton
I hugged him without any kind of fear or self-consciousness, fiercely, with a rush of emotion that almost brought tears to my eyes. "I could… — Alexandra Bracken
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive! — Alison Bechdel

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