For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable.
Having become conscious of the truth he once perceived, man now sees only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence, he now understands the symbolic element in Ophelia's fate, he now recognizes the wisdom of the woodland god, Silenus: it nauseates him.
You are angry with your neighbor, you despise him, do not like to speak peaceably and lovingly to him, because there is something harsh, abrupt, careless, unpleasant to you in his character, in his speech, in his manners-because he is more conscious of his dignity than perhaps is necessary; or because he may be somewhat proud and disrespectful; but you yourself, your neighbor's physician and teacher, are more guilty than him.
Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious.
The greatest unsolved mysteries are the mysteries of our existence as conscious beings in a small corner of a vast universe.
I'm always very conscious because I like to give time between records, even though I feel like I write music that will last it's time, whatever time that is.
At the end of the day we're all spirits having a physical experience. That really comes from my relationship with Islam because it just makes me really conscious of my action.
When I was younger I was fat. I was never conscious of it and was content with who I was because I was so loved. My mother never told me to lose weight and my father doted on me, but my agent told me. I tried, but I loved Indian food too much.
For joy, I live by the mantra of surrounding yourself with people who make your life better. . . people who enhance your life and motivate you to be the best version of yourself. It's not always easy, but I've had to make a conscious effort to remove people who are a lot of work and drain my energy. . . you know, those energy suckers we each have in our lives.
I have to be conscious of what I'm sayin' because people are gonna come at me about this sh*t.
Matter as matter rather than matter as symbol is a conscious political position, essentially Marxist.
The gain isn't counted to the recluse and inactive that, having nothing to measure themselves by and never being tested by failure, they simmer and soak perpetually in conscious complacency.
We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you. . . He is everywhere, saying, "I am. " The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If I see a theme emerging in a story I will likely take it up and develop it. I hardly ever set out with a conscious plan and if I do the story usually takes over and takes me where it wants to go.
I was a Shakespearean actor, I had preconceived ideas, line readings - everything was a gesture, everything was conscious.
I think that the majority of messages are validating messages to confirm the survival of conscious. And many times that validation message is negative or sad.
I don't often see the movies I'm in; I'm usually disappointed in myself and it only serves to make me self-conscious.
For most people this is not a conscious process, it's an inner pull that takes place, that simply draws them there.
I don't live beyond my means. I enjoy luxury and I enjoy the privilege of it, when I can afford it, and I'm in the situation where it's been given to me, but I'm very conscious of what is wasteful.
We can be more or less conscious when you create grades of focus on a subject that is flowing in our stream of consciousness.