Quotes About Awareness

Siempre nos queda el derecho de querer saber.

Home is where somebody notices your absence.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

You must understand that your daughter's illness is indifference to life, and nothing more....

In front of him, nothing. He had a sudden glimpse of what he had considered invisible. The end of the world.

Lo capì d'improvviso, con la velocità fulminante con cui si comprendono alle volte, molto tempo dopo, cose che sono sotto gli occhi da sempre, solo a saperle guardare.

seeing in the air things that the others did not see.

Il buio sospende tutto. Non c'è nulla che possa, nel buio, diventare vero.

Era, por lo demás, uno de esos hombres que prefieren asistir a su propia vida y consideran improcedente cualquier aspiración a vivirla.

Bio je, zapravo, jedan od onih ljudi što vole prisustvovati vlastitom životu, drže?i nedoli?nom svaku težnju da ga prožive. Uo?ljivo je kako takvi ljudi vlastitu sudbinu posmatraju na na?in na koji ve?ina posmatra kišni dan.

Poi prevalse la consapevolezza che la vita è sostanzialmente incoerente e la prevedibilità dei fatti una illusoria consolazione.

la condanna di quelli, molti, che non sono capaci di toccare senza far male [...]

Un giorno mi sono accorto che non m'importava più di nulla, e che tutto mi feriva a morte.

Rechtzeitig hatte der Junge damals schon vermutet, dass das Leben ein entsetzlicher Tumult war und man grundsätzlich gut daran tat, ihm im Zustand absoluter und radikaler Ahnungslosigkeit entgegenzutreten.

Ali on je bio od onih koji se najviše osjete kada nisu tu.

Jasper Gwyn taught me that we aren't characters, we're stories," said Rebecca. "We stop at the idea of being a character engaged in who knows what adventure, even a very simple one, but what we have to understand is that we are the whole story, not just that character. We are the wood where he walks, the bad guy who cheats him, the mess around him, all the people who pass, the color of things, the sounds.

Sapeva ascoltare. E sapeva leggere. Non i libri, quelli son buoni tutti, sapeva leggere la gente. I segni che la gente si porta addosso: posti, rumori, odori, la loro terra, la loro storia... Tutta scritta, addosso.

They're smart enough to know the one thing a person values most in the house, and they may purposefully decide to smash

those who do not know how to see the precious things in life will never be happy.

I was just... thinking. That must have been quite an experience for you.

That's what true love should be like-the person should be part of your soul and you should know what they're feeling all the time.

transparent evasion exercises.

I remembered a few things about waking. I remembered the sense of surprise as dream life and waking life swapped primacy, and the way in which the most tangible and deeply involving dreams could bleach entirely away.

Crazies always recognize each other. I think Melville said it, in a slightly different context: "Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round." Of course, we're not talking about genius here, we're talking about crazies—but