Subconscious Quotes

“Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”
― Dario Argento

“Psychoanalysis [...] overestimates the linguistic character of the unconscious. Dreaming is a pagan cinema.”
― Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

“Do not confuse the 'subconscious' with the 'unconscious', whose attributes include courage as well as true knowledge. A great deal of confusion has resulted from the use of these two terms as synonymous. I am using the term 'subconscious' here to stand for material -desires, anxieties, fears, hopes - repressed by the conscious mind as it deals with the outer realities of life. 'Unconscious' means the absic energy of life, that area of being beyond the ego. The subconscious, despite its hidden qualities, is really an extension of the ego. In a sense, it embodies the ego's absolute domain, that realm where it makes no compromises with reality. Because it does not concern itself with consequences the subconscious will walk you in front of a truck to avoid an unpleasant conversation. The unconscious on the other hand, balances and supports us by joining us to the great surge of life beyond our individual selves. The Hanged Man in the Major Arcana gives us a powerful image of this vital connection.”
― Rachel Pollack, Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot

“Your outer self has 5 layers. Society wants you to stay within 4 layers: There are gyms for body, the circus to pump up your head, cinema for your heart, religion for your morality. Nobody is there for 5th layer.

5th layer is the dark forest full of guilt, shame, dark thoughts, immoral decisions, emptiness and so on. An individual has to cross this forest alone to reach the most beautiful flower - your pure inner self.”
― Shunya

“Dreams often show us what the subconscious is keeping in our memories.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, The Guardian Spirit

“I think women, perhaps unconsciously, convey to female children a deep sense of their own discontent.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“Writing is lucid dreaming – the work of the subconscious that has a toe in the conscious, just enough to harness the dream’s waywardness. I always heard it said that writing draws on the subconscious, but that isn’t true. It is the subconscious, and it draws on the conscious.”
― Samantha Harvey, The Shapeless Unease: A Year of Not Sleeping

“Of course we have an 'unconscious mind' and this is partly what my book is about. But there is no general chart of that lost continent. Certainly not a 'scientific' one.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

“But the trouble with asking your subconscious what it wants is, it just laughs at you and says, 'Work it out for yourself, moron.”
― Sophie Kinsella, Christmas Shopaholic

“Imitating someone is a conscious reminder to your subconscious that you don't exist.”
― Goitsemang Mvula

“People sometimes express beliefs that are not their own.”
― Maria Karvouni

“If you wish to understand the subconscious mind of an individual or a society, you have to understand the core beliefs which are shaped by the popular myths and scriptures of the society.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“I wonder, sometimes, if the Continentals were like shoals of fish, & the slightest flick of one fish caused dozens of others to follow suit, until the entire shimmering cloud had changed course.

And were the Divinities the sum of this cloud? An embodiment, perhaps, of a national subconscious? Or were they empowered by the thoughts & praises of millions of people, yet also yoked to every one of those thoughts – giant, terrible puppets forced to dance by the strings of millions of puppeteers.

This knowledge, I think, is incredibly dangerous. The Continentals derive so much pride & so much power from having Divine approval … but were they merely hearing the echoes of their own voices, magnified through strange caverns & tunnels? When they spoke to the Divinities, were they speaking to giant reflections of themselves?”
― Robert Jackson Bennett, City of Stairs

“We know more than we think we do. We think more than we know we do.”
― Adeel Ahmed Khan

“Consciousness is the result of subconscious actions, vibrations, attractions, reflections, and manifestations.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Let's agree, some sleep is necessary, hunger is nagging and it may not be possible to experience directly another person's subconscious.”
― Roscoe Webster

“We crave someone to love, chase someone to hate, and demand someone else decide who receives which fate.”
― Ross Caligiuri

“Many things enter our minds as undeveloped thought-seeds which continue to work in our subconscious long after we have dismissed them from our attention. One need only think of the unwanted fantasies, especially sexual ones, that beset every person at one time or another. Often such a fantasy develops from an image that originally held one’s attention for only a brief moment.”
― J. Heinrich Arnold, Freedom from Sinful Thoughts

“The cause of an attack by an evil spirit is often found in the subconscious. How important it is to find detachment every evening before falling asleep. Whatever we give room to in our heart may work on in us all night long.”
― J. Heinrich Arnold, Freedom from Sinful Thoughts

“In 1994 Stephen Porges, who was a researcher at the University of Maryland at the time we started our investigation of HRV, and who is now at the University of North Carolina, introduced the Polyvagal theory, which built on Darwin’s observations and added another 140 years of scientific discoveries to those early insights. (Polyvagal refers to the many branches of the vagus nerve – Darwin’s “pneumogastric nerve” – which connects numerous organs, including the brain, lungs, heart, stomach, and intestines.) The Polyvagal Theory provided us with a more sophisticated understanding of the biology of safety and danger, one based on the subtle interplay between the visceral experiences of our own bodies and the voices and faces of the people around us. It explained why a kind face or a soothing tone of voice can dramatically alter the way we feel. It clarified why knowing that we are seen and heard by the important people in our lives can make us feel calm and safe, and why being ignored or dismissed can precipitate rage reactions or mental collapse. It helped us understand why focused attunement with another person can shift us out of disorganized and fearful states.
In short, Porges’s theory made us look beyond the effects of fight or flight and put social relationships front and center in our understanding of trauma. It also suggested new approaches to healing that focus on strengthening the body’s system for regulating arousal.”
― Bessel Van Der Kolk

“Remember depending on another is not the same as a dependency, but sometimes the two are easily confused and without proper balance, it is easy to build a dependency or either become overly independent. But being overly independent also puts a strain on a relationship. This type of independence can stem from the fear of losing yourself within the relationship. This fear brings about erratic behavior and subconscious sabotage in order to advert losing yourself.”
― Victoria L. White, Learning To Love: And The Power of Sacred Sexual Spiritual Partnerships

“We rarely question the knowledge of the subconscious mind and do not let anything contrary to enter our mind. We refuse to hear any argument against our subconscious knowledge-which has become our belief and faith is the greatest hindrance in knowing the truth and understanding the reality.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“Years of practice in mathematics hardwires a person's brain for subconscious solving of mathematical problems - this is how Srinivasa Ramanujan came up with most of his discoveries in mathematics. Years of practice in the study of human behavior hardwires a person's brain for the subconscious solving of the puzzle of human nature - this is how I come up with many of my insights on human cognition and behavior. There is no magic or supernatural intervention involved here. It’s just that, when you foster a forte in a specific activity, your brain keeps working on it, beneath the surface of your conscious awareness, even if you are consciously engaged in other activities or even if you are asleep.”
― Abhijit Naskar, All For Acceptance

“Being a nurse, I’m well trained in being careful with the language that I use. Words have power. They can keep someone calm. Or they can freak someone the fuck out when they’re in a bad place. They can keep someone at a distance. Or they can bring them close. It’s why I resisted when he suggested I call him by his first name. I was keeping him at a distance. But apparently my subconscious has been telling me this whole time that I shouldn’t do that.”
― Melanie A. Smith, Never Date a Doctor

“Случайно на ноже карманном
найди пылинку дальних стран -
и мир опять предстанет странным,
закутанным в цветной туман!”
― Alexander Blok, Стихотворения 1907-1916 годов

“Most of the times when we feel weak, we are just subconsciously fearing our own power.”
― Geetika Garg

“We’re all going to be little brown gophers. We’ll all have to learn to dig down in the rubble and find the good things, because that’s where they’ll be.”
― Philip K. Dick, Foster, You're Dead

“Якщо в ідеології є насолода, то є і ностальгія за самовдоволенністю.”
― John Tagg, Burden Of Representation: Essays on Photographies and Histories

“Often we go through minutes, hours, and even days operating totally from our subconscious. We think we are in control, but the subconscious has established its own agenda and is really running the show. We are ASLEEP! Walking Zombies!”
― Laurence Galian, Beyond Duality: The Art of Transcendence

“Мы давно не встречались: я и моя книжная закладка”
― Сигизмунд Кржижановский, Воспоминания о будущем. Избранное из неизданного