Quotes About Self-awareness

Só agora sei que eu já tinha tudo, embora do modo contrário: eu me dedicava a cada detalhe do não. Detalhadamente não sendo, eu me provava que – que eu era.

Ik had de moet niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.

Ik had de moed niet om geen belofte meer te zijn en bleef mezelf beloven, als een volwassene die de moed niet heeft om in te zien dat hij volwassen is en doorgaat zichzelf rijpheid te beloven.

Que tenho afinal? Que me falta? Sou tão feliz como qualquer cachorro, por que então este vazio e esta nostalgia? Que ânsia é esta, como se eu só amasse o que não conheço?" E o homem - o único a poder de livrá-lo da pergunta - este homem nunca lhe dirá quem ele é para não perdê-lo para sempre.

It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it. More than anything, I'm afraid to say it, because the moment I try to speak not only do I fail to express what I feel but what I feel slowly becomes what I say.

Toda compreensão súbita é finalmente a revelação de uma aguda incompreensão. Todo momento de achar é um perder-se a si próprio.

I was becoming aware of myself as one becomes aware of a taste: all of me tasted of steel and verdigris, I was all acid like metal on the tongue, like a crushed green plant, my whole taste rose to my mouth.

A mais premente necessidade de um ser humano era tornar-se um ser humano.

Hay muchas cosas por decir que no sé cómo decir. Me faltan las palabras. Pero me niego a inventar otras nuevas. Las que ya existen deben deccir o que se consigue decir y lo que está prohibido. Y lo que está prohibido lo adivino. Si hubiese fuerza. Más allá del pensamiento no hay palabras: se es. Mi pintura no tiene palabras: está más allá del pensamiento. En ese terreno del se es soy puro éxtasis cristalino. Se es. Me soy. Tú te eres.

I become so scared when I realize that over a period of hours I lost my human constitution. I don't know if I'll have another one to replace the lost one with. I know that I'll need to take care not to surreptitiously use a new third leg that can grow back in me as easily as a weed, and then call that protective leg "a truth".

A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.

identity which is the first immanence

Mas se não compreendo o que escrevo a culpa não é minha. Tenho que falar porque falar salva. Mas não tenho nenhuma palavra a dizer.

I, neutral cockroach body, I with a life that at last is not eluding me because I finally see it outside of myself -- I am the cockroach, I am my leg, I am my hair, I am the section of brightest light on the wall plaster -- I am every Hellish piece of myself -- life is so pervasive in me that if they divide me in pieces like a lizard, the pieces will keep on shaking and writhing.

Dear God, how sweetly she sank into the incomprehension of herself.

We can't make the external world become peaceful; we can only become peace.

I love mirrors. They let one pass through the surface of things.

As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn't, so making films would change nothing.

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are.

First signs of the age when wisdom begins? There are moments when my past makes me ashamed. When I'm embarrassed to have taken so much while giving so little.

No one but myself knows the anxiety I go through and the trouble I give myself…

Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.

Con los años no es que se profundice lo peor de uno, sino que por fin sale a la luz.

La soledad es un estado interior que puede practicarse, incluso, estando con otra gente, cree.