Delmore Schwartz Quotes

Every aspect of our lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, which we are constantly aware of, and the other unconscious, which remains hidden from us.

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

I like neurotic people. I like troubled people. Not that I don't like squared-away people, but I prefer neurotic people. I like to hear rumblings beneath the surface.

The subconscious is like having a laboratory assistant who pretends to love you and help you, but after you go home to go to sleep it goes back into the lab and starts fumbling with the data and destroying it. It's a very tricky thing. People think our minds are us, but that's not true at all. The mind is not us.

The story line was done in a way that's organic and was doled out very slowly in little bites. We think that's authentic for this character, that her feelings are very deeply buried or she never felt them.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.

Most people don't realize that the mind constantly chatters. And yet, that chatter winds up being the force that drives us much of the day in terms of what we do, what we react to, and how we feel.

Those things interest me a lot in songwriting - the human nature of how people think, and the muck that we wind up in.

The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?

Have you ever wondered what your subconscious mind looks like? Well today, I can show you.

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

We all have an edge. We all are floating our psyche on top with a great ocean underneath.

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

The way we behave, our views and outlooks really have their sources some place. They come from somewhere. Sometimes we don't even know what they are, and yet they're very powerful in our lives.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

Of course I want to have a deliciously seductive story on the surface which will keep people engaged and amused, but primarily, I'm interested in other things. It's the texture of any given moment that fascinates me: what is really going on between people or in somebody's mind.

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.

An actor knows much more about a character than the character knows about himself.

Most of my acting in general is about what's going on in the head, and the lines are just something that comes out.

I'm very interested in the human mind, what's going on in there.

The weirdest thing about a mind is that you can have the most intense things going on in there, but no one else can see them.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.