Art of life Quote by Siri Hustvedt

One-half of life is admitted by us to be passed in sleep, in which, however, it may appear otherwise, we have no perception of…

— Blaise Pascal

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first.

— Blaise Pascal

“With regard to sleep and waking, we must consider what they are: whether they are peculiar to soul or to body, or common to…

— Aristotle

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains…

— Leonard Mlodinow

“From the perspective of the consciousness disciplines, our ordinary state of waking consciousness is severely suboptimal. Rather than contradicting the Western paradigm, this perspective…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Sometimes I think there is more rest in that place between wakefulness and sleep than there is in true sleep. The mind walks in…

— Robin Hobb

Consciousness: That annoying time between naps

— Steven Wright

Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death.

— Mason Cooley

“The morning comes to consciousness”

— T.S. Eliot

Humans are potentially capable of living in a state of consciousness compared to which normal wakefulness is like sleeping or dreaming.

— Eckhart Tolle

There is a knowledge in the heart of sleep.

— Sri Aurobindo

The repose of sleep refreshes only the body. It rarely sets the soul at rest. The repose of the night does not belong to…

— Gaston Bachelard