Mark Leyner Quotes

People have motives and thoughts of which they are unaware.

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

If our subconscious was attractive, we wouldn't have to bury it down deep within us.

I feel there's a power in theatre, but it's an indirect power. It's like the relationship of the sleeper to the unconscious. You discover things you can't afford to countenance in waking life. You can forget them, remember them a day later or not have any idea what they are about.

The more we deny that we have a dark side, the more power it has over us.

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

True thoughts are those alone which do not understand themselves.

Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.

How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

Sometimes you have compulsions that you can't control coming from the subconscious... they are the dictator inside ourselves.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously.

In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts.

Don't think. That is the wrong way to bring anything back. Let it go. Sooner or later it will flash into your mind.

The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases.

At times your unconsciousness is truer than your conscious mind

Consciousness is the mere surface of our minds, of which, as of the earth, we do not know the inside, but only the crust.

A lot of the shadow self is the home of poetry, story, prayer. My deepest understandings are often released from the part of me of which I am least aware most of the time.

I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.

Secrets find a way out in sleep . . . It is the place where there is no pretense.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.