Charles Bukowski Quotes

You don't really see yourself doing things, of course, but you feel.

Scott Fitzgerald said famously that "he who invented consciousness would have a lot to be blamed for." But he also forgot that without consciousness, he would have no access to true happiness or even the possibility of transcendence.

Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside.

Watching I watch myself, what I see is my creation as though entering through my eyes perception is conception into an eye more crystal clear water of thoughts, what I watch watches me, I am the creation of what I see

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

He thinks in secret, and it comes to pass: environment is but his looking glass.

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark?

I spend half my time just living my life, and the other half analyzing it.

My personality doesn't interest me.

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

I'm an introspective dude.

I've always been a very self-aware person.

I never really think too much about my voice.

I just want to live each moment, but it's kind of hard to do that when you are asked to analyze yourself constantly. But it's also good in that you are forced to think about things that you don't ordinarily think about. I think it's strange.

I've always been very conscious of who I am.

What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement.

I don't think I'm tangible to myself.

I don't think we spend enough time in silence, just realizing what's floating around in our noggin.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I think we're all very curious about our own minds, but we just may not have the tools to channel that.

I don't find myself intriguing.

Perhaps I'm just over-sensitive.

I really don't think I have lived my life as an open book.

I'm very self-aware.

I--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.