Quotes About Awareness

It all comes down to trying to experience tedium in a way that does not hurt.

Believe me, if there were no intelligent people pointing out all our various human ills, humanity would not even notice them. Sensitive people make others suffer out of sympathy.

La conciencia de la inconsciencia de la vida es el martirio más grande impuesto a la inteligencia.

A minha alma era a mesma de sempre, entre lençóis como entre gente, dolorosamente consciente do mundo.

O espelho reflecte certo; não erra porque não pensa. Pensar é essencialmente errar. Errar é essencialmente estar cego e surdo.

Those who think with their reason tend to be distracted. Those who think with their emotions are sleeping. Those who think with their will are dead.

Sou do tamanho do que vejo!

Durmo e desdurmo.

Passeávamos às vezes, braço dado, sob os cedros e as olaias e nenhum de nós pensava em viver

We are all of us the slaves of external circumstance: even at a table in some backstreet café, a sunny day can open up before us visions of wide fields; a shadow over the countryside can cause us to shrink inside ourselves, seeking uneasy shelter in the doorless house that is our self; and, even in the midst of daytime things, the arrival of darkness can open out, like a slowly spreading fan, a deep awareness of our need for rest.

All I want from myself is to observe life. There's a glass sheet between me and it. I want the glass to be perfectly clear, so that it will in no way hinder my examination of what's behind it, but I always want the glass.

Tomorrow doesn't exist. This moment Alone is mine, and I am only who Exists in this instant, which might be the last Of the self I pretend to be. 16 March 1933

We do not possess our sensations, and through them we cannot possess ourselves.

Exist? destul? metafizic? în a nu te gândi la nimic.

Besides, what can I expect from myself? My sensations in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling … A sharp mind that only destroys me, and a ferocious capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained … A dead will and a reflection that cradles it

Quien no ve bien una palabra , no puede ver bien un alma.

I like to think, because I know it won't be long before I stop thinking.

Have you ever thought, O Other, how invisible we are to each other? Have you already pondered how little we know each other? We see each other and do not see each other. We hear each other, and we each hear only a voice inside us. The words of others are errors in our hearing, shipwrecks in our understanding. How confidently we believe in our interpretation of other people's words.

O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.

I never go beyond immediate reality. There is nothing beyond immediate reality.

Tudo que se passa no onde vivemos é em nós que se passa. Tudo que cessa no que vemos é em nós que cessa.

It is between sensation and my awareness of it that all the great tragedies of my life occur. In that shadowy, indeterminate region of forests and burbling water, indifferent even to the noise of our wars, flows the self I struggle in vain to find…

El tiempo pasa, nada nos dice. Envejecemos. Sepamos, con malicia casi, sentirnos ir. De nada vale hacer un gesto. No se resiste al dios atroz dios que sus hijos siempre devora.

I've come to the realization that I'm always thinking and listening to two things at once.