Observer Quotes

External relationships seem to have been emptied by a massive withdrawal of the real libidinal self. Effective mental activity has disappeared into a hidden inner world; the patient's conscious ego is emptied of vital feeling and action, and seems to have become unreal. You may catch glimpses of intense activity going on in the inner world through dreams and fantasies, but the patient's conscious ego merely reports these as if it were a neutral observer not personally involved in the inner drama of which it is a detached spectator. The attitude to the outer world is the same: non-involvement and observation at a distance without any feeling, like that of a press reporter describing a social gathering of which he is not a part, in which he has no personal interest, and by which he is bored. Such activity as is carried on may appear to be mechanical. When a schizoid state supervenes, the conscious ego appears to be in a state of suspended animation in between two worlds, internal and external, and having no real relationships with either of them. It has decreed an emotional and impulsive standstill, on the basis of keeping out of effective range and being unmoved.

~ Harry Guntrip

If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?

~ Kamand Kojouri

The process of becoming is not of doing but simply an act of observing. The internal process has been designed in such a way that it seems impossible for you to sit quietly even for some time at one place.

~ Roshan Sharma

Gifted people of discernment, intelligence, and talent flourish in virtually every occupation. Every field produces perceptive and prescient persons whom exhibit the rare capacity to observe what eludes most people.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Your presence is enough to go through life. More and more you observe life, more and more you can let lose yourself with the free flow of life.

~ Roshan Sharma

You can only become the observer of life, if you can perceive the world with the mind and not with the sensory organs.

~ Roshan Sharma

Or maybe I am justoutside enough,being the footstool observing from the corner,that I have a view of reality.

~ Thalia Chaltas

I am an owl, bird of the night. I see everything. I know everything.

~ Laurie Halse Anderson

Observe your internal and external world and rise above it.

~ Roshan Sharma

Be the compassionate observer. No labels, just unconditional compassion. Fun times pass, tough times pass. Compassion will be eternal.

~ Matthew Donnelly

There is a time and place for electromagnetic shielding and I regard it as a last resort due to the long term biological problems that I have observed with it over the years in plant growth experiments.

~ Steven Magee

Miracles' rely on their observer’s ignorance. 'Perfection' relies on the observer’s failure to notice the observed’s defects.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

~ Ian Hunter

I like Julie Gold's song From a Distance. Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life.

~ Ilchi Lee

An observer can’t tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

~ Susanna Kaysen

To observe is not to not feel—in fact, it is to put yourself at the mercy of feeling, like the child's warm skin meeting the cold air of midnight. My own children, too, have been roused from the unconsciousness of childhood; theirs too is the pain and the gift of awareness. 'I have two homes,' my daughter said to me one evening, clearly and carefully, 'and I have no home.' To suffer and to know what it is that you suffer: how can that be measured against its much-prized opposite, the ability to be happy without knowing why?

~ Rachel Cusk

Oftentimes I think it is far better to listen for an answer, rather than talk out of an effort to create one.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Pluto is dead, I know as I observed the Terminator that was sent to kill it

~ Steven Magee

The insistent drums were an unwelcome reminder of the existence of another world, wholly autonomous, with its own necessities and patterns. The message they were beating out, over and over, was for her; it was saying, not precisely that she did not exist but rather that it did not matter whether she existed or not, that her presence was of no consequence to the rest of the cosmos. It was a sensation that suddenly paralyzed her with dread. There had never been any question of her “mattering”; it went without saying that she mattered, because she was important to herself. But what was the part of her to which she mattered?

~ Paul Bowles

Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.

~ Jay Woodman

The intelligent poor individual was a much finer observer than the intelligent rich one. The poor individual looks around him at every step, listens suspiciously to every word he hears from the people he meets; thus, every step he takes presents a problem, a task, for his thoughts and feelings. He is alert and sensitive, he is experienced, his soul has been burned...

~ Knut Hamsun

Look out from within and observe the words, actions, reactions, and feelings that evolve from you. Release the identity with what you have observed if it creates tension and stress. Surely you will dissolve into effortless being that way.

~ Franklin Gillette