Quotes About Awareness

And part of brilliance isn't just solving a problem; it's seeing a problem no one else realizes is a problem yet.

Later came the hard knowledge that no one can save you from yourself.

Pain is not what you see and not what you feel. Pain is what you can only hear, alone in the dark.

Because you and I are alike that way. We know monsters are real, and they don't all live under the bed.

People with a history of depression often appear happiest right before they commit suicide. Not because their depression has passed, but because they've finally chosen a course of action.

I don't speak. In this day and age, we all talk too much and hear too little. Listening has become a forgotten art that the world is sorely missing.

Do you really think it's all gone away? Mental illness has just moved underground, into the homeless shelters and the city parks. Out of sight, out of mind for the taxpayers. It's a crying shame.

That brought D.D. up short.

The gift of gratitude, we say in AA. It took me a long time to find it, and I'm still not the best at remembering it, but every now and then, I almost understand.

People think they want knowledge. Until they have it, of course.

Shit, I'm being played like a fucking violin! Rainie blinked. Since when did you take up swearing? Yesterday. I'm finding it highly addictive. Like nicotine. You're smoking , too? No, but I haven't lost my deep and abiding love for metaphors.

Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.

There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.

If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.

A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large.

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have no place. They are private, isolated - and hopeless.

We, as a society, we have PhDs in victimizing a victim.

From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves, break with complacency, numbness, despair.

When we talk of freedom and opportunity for all nations, the mocking paradoxes in our own society become so clear they can no longer be ignored.

Shatter the glass. In our society that is so self-absorbed, begin to look less at yourself and more at each other. Learn more about the face of your neighbor and less about your own.

The day we learn to allow an ambulance to pass through in traffic, might be the first step towards being a truly responsible society.

An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.