Consciousness Loss Quotes

Being dead's only a problem if you know you're dead, which you never do because you're dead!

If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. That's how fragile our consciousness is.

I am not strictly speaking mad, for my mind is absolutely normal in the intervals, and even more so than before. But during the attacks it is terrible - and then I lose consciousness of everything. But that spurs me on to work and to seriousness, as a miner who is always in danger makes haste in what he does.

If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

I don't believe in reincarnation. That's a cop-out. . . . I anticipate death will be a totally unconscious void in which you float through eternity with no particular consciousness of anything.

I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

The moment in which the spirit meets death is perhaps like the moment in which it is embraced in sleep. I suppose it never happened to any one to be conscious of the immediate transition from the waking to the sleeping state.

Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

For a long time he had been white smoke. He did not realize that until he left the hospital, because white smoke had no consciousness of itself. It faded into the white world of their bed sheets and walls; it was sucked away by the words of doctors who tried to talk to the invisible scattered smoke... They saw his outline but they did not realize it was hollow inside.

What happens [in a coma] is that you lose the grounding of the self, you no longer have access to any feeling of your own existence.

-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal.

I remember nothing of this, no ambulance rides, nothing. Nothing between switching out the bedside lamp and the sudden indignity of rebirth: the slaps, the brightness, the tubing, the speed, the urgent insistence that I be choked back into breathing life. I have felt so sorry for babies ever since.