Consciousness Quote by William Wordsworth

The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the…

— William James

Consciousness is the grave of things, the place where they cease to exist, beyond which they end. And when they have ended, it seems…

— Oskar Kokoschka

“When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things…

— Marcel Proust

“You think the thing you call consciousness is some mysterious gift from the heavens, but in the end consciousness is nothing but the context…

— Bernard Beckett

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone,…

— Marcel Proust

When my soul leaves this human dwelling, I will not consider myself to have completely died, but to pass from one state to another,…

— Francois Rabelais

“Now death was a place, a place to which people disappeared forever when they died, a place that gradually sucked away the clarity of…

— Barry Eisler

Molecules dissolve and pass away, but consciousness survives the death of the matter on which it rides.

— Deepak Chopra

Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is…

— Ashim Shanker

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

— Kingsley Amis

When the mind is controlled and still what remains is the soul

— B.K.S. Iyengar