"Consciousness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... unvoiced supplication, if any, may have been behind the lips of either was not for the other to know. Yet it was an hour of formidable besetments and we may pardon the actor if an actor's self-consciousness moved him to reflect that there were thousands of healthy men, some as raw as Hugh, some as ripe as himself, who, for the sake of a promise, a wife or a maiden, or even without them, standing thus, ...
— Gideon's Band - A Tale of the Mississippi • George W. Cable
... corral an idea impinged upon his consciousness with the force of a bullet. "Gawdamighty," he ...
— The Heart of the Range • William Patterson White
... and of the third woman, Vida. The clergyman is really more frivolous often and far less conscious of his frivolity—enough, that I rather thought one of the strongest things about the play was the consciousness of their own humour, of ...
— Representative Plays by American Dramatists: 1856-1911: The New York Idea • Langdon Mitchell
... only, an anomaly, upon that one, white, unruffled consciousness! His first principle once recognised, all the rest, the whole array of propositions down to the [110] heartless practical conclusion, must follow of themselves. Detachment: to hasten hence: to fold up one's whole self, as a vesture put aside: to anticipate, by such ...
— Imaginary Portraits • Walter Horatio Pater
... so? And yet it was not pride I felt, Nor consciousness of self, nor vain delight In the world's envy;—something more than these, Far deeper, sweeter—What have I said? My brain Is dull with sleep. 'T is only now I feel The weariness of ...
— The Poems of Emma Lazarus - Vol. I (of II.), Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic • Emma Lazarus
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