Unconscious Quotes

• The creative union of the conscious with the unconscious is what one usually calls 'inspiration.'

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Inspiration
  • Conscious
  • Creative Union

• Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Creative
  • Choice
  • Lives

• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Mind
  • Find
  • Unconscious

• Some people should die that's just unconscious knowledge.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Die

• The doorknob twisted. “I’m coming with you.” I ran over and held it shut. “No, you are so not. We can’t carry your unconscious body around the Center. Besides, I need you here. If something goes wrong, I can’t handle you getting hurt.” “Wait, so it’s okay if I get hurt?” Jack asked. “Yes,” I snapped at the same time as Lend and Arianna. “As long as you’re sure, then,” Jack muttered.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Long
  • Hurt
  • Waiting

• I destroy the painting as soon as I can see what it is. When I can make out something in it, I destroy it because it's no longer coming from my unconscious.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Painting
  • Destroy
  • Unconscious

• ... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • World
  • Age
  • Society

• I can simply say that I feel spontaneously attracted by everything that is beautiful... It comes from the unconscious and not from my knowledge... Whatever is purely realistic, slice of life, which is average, quotidian, doesn't interest me... I am fascinated by what is beautiful, strong, healthy, what is living. I seek harmony.

  

  Leni Riefenstahl
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Strong

• The unconscious is the discourse of the Other.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Unconscious
  • Discourse

• I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

  

  Vincent Price
  • Dark
  • Sometimes
  • Sick

• The best image to sum up the unconscious is Baltimore in the early morning.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Image

• Royalty has always been an unconscious but all-consuming goal of the European immigrant.

  

  Vine Deloria, Jr.
  • Goal
  • Royalty
  • Consuming

• To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Lose
  • Unconscious
  • Transformed

• It is as if the formation of patterns within the unconscious mind is accompanied by physical patterns in the outer world. In particular, as psychic patterns are on the point of reaching consciousness, the synchronicities reach their peak; moreover, they generally disappear as the individual becomes consciously aware of a new alignment of forces within his or her own personality...It is as if the internal restructuring produces external resonance, or as if a burst of 'mental energy' is propagated outward onto the world.

  

  F. David Peat
  • Mind
  • Patterns
  • Formation

• Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher dimensional space. In the Newtonian and print created space that we are walking around in you, are like a self extracting archive, that hasn't self extracted itself yet.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Walking
  • Chaos

• Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.

  

  William Gibson
  • Looks
  • Hands
  • Unconscious

• Our mind is so fortunately equipped, that it brings us the most important bases for our thoughts without our having the least knowledge of this work of elaboration. Only the results of it become unconscious.

  

  Wilhelm Wundt
  • Important
  • Knowledge
  • Results

• I do have a lot of references coming out of the '60s, '70s, and '80s, but I don't consciously think, "I'm going to put this here and this there." It comes out of my unconscious, and I don't want it to be just retro.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Unconscious
  • References
  • Retro

• The way I work is mostly unconscious and instinctive.

  

  Britta Phillips
  • Work
  • Way
  • Unconscious

• And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.

  

  Jhumpa Lahiri
  • Girl
  • Moments
  • Unconscious

• Inspiration is inbreathing, indwelling, poetry can never be entirely willed. It may be true a poet is given only a single line but that line is a gift from the unconscious, intution, a perception.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Poetry
  • Inspiration
  • Perception

• it is a shoe designer's job to be a year ahead of our collective unconscious.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Job
  • Designer
  • Collectives

• Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Road
  • Dreams
  • Unconscious

• I never felt like there was an unconscious part of me around that woke up or that came out of the closet; there wasn't a struggle, there wasn't an attempt to suppress.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Up
  • Struggle
  • Felt

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