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Quotes About Awareness

You don't know what cold is until you've experienced the cold you feel when the blood is draining out of your body.
~ Ry? Murakami
Anyone who's had a visit from them has discovered an important fact about life: namely, that misery grows up all by itself, in a hidden place, without your even being aware of it, and then one day, suddenly, it knocks on your door. Happiness is just the opposite. Happiness is a cute little flower on your veranda, or a baby canary. You can see it growing, little by little, right before your eyes.
~ Ry? Murakami
Najgori mogu?i scenario uvek se oblikuje iza zavese, gde niko ne može da ga otkrije niti da ga primeti, i onda jednog dana, bum, to postaje tvoja stvarnost. A kada jednom postane stvarnost, prekasno je da se bilo šta uradi.
~ Ry? Murakami
Sinteen-years -old girls are probably the most sensitive and perceptive group of people in this entire country.
~ Ry? Murakami
They don't realize that they've changed; they think it's the world that changed.
~ Ry? Murakami
I never liked to just absorb something somebody else created. I'm too self-conscious, and too critical, I guess, and it always felt like I was wasting time. But after you went away... well, it started to feel like time was wasting me. Every tick of the second hand was like a needle in my skin. Tick, tick, tick...
~ Ry? Murakami
Sólo cuando de verdad veías las palabras desaparecer, te dabas cuenta de lo secas y muertas que estaban, como hojas marchitas o dinero viejo y desechado.
~ Ry? Murakami
Allmählich wurde mir klar, warum Frank auf so eine dreiste Weise morden konnte, ohne verhaftet zu werden. Weil in unserem Land niemand Notiz von Fremden nimmt. Ob das in Amerika auch so war?
~ Ry? Murakami
Luke's clothes began to smolder as his body involuntarily spasmed. Suddenly, Vader realized that he was no longer concerned about his own personal future. Despite all the terrible, unspeakable things he'd done in his life, he knew he could not stand by and allow the Emperor to kill Luke. And in that moment of awareness, he was Darth Vader no more. He was Anakin Skywalker.
~ Ryder Windham
The man who ceases to be astonished is hollow, possessed of an extinguished heart.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Herein lies the attractiveness of ethnic agitation: its ease and accessibility. The Other is visible, everyone can recognize and remember his image. One doesn't have to read books, think, discuss: it is enough just to look.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Kiedy si? spieszysz, nic nie widzisz, nic nie prze?ywasz, niczego nie do?wiadczasz, nie my?lisz! Szybkie tempo wysusza najg??bsze warstwy twojej duszy, st?pia twoj? wra?liwo??, wyja?awia ci? i odcz?owiecza.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
The causes of a revolution are usually sought in objective conditions--general poverty, oppression, scandalous abuses. But this view, while correct, is one-sided. After all, such conditions exist in a hundred countries, but revolutions erupt rarely. What is needed is the consciousness of poverty and the consciousness of oppression, and the conviction that poverty and oppression are not the natural order of this world.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Confusão možno chápaÃ…Â¥ ako stav neistoty a bezradnosti. Vidíme okolo seba zúriÃ…Â¥ confusão, ale nemôžeme spraviÃ…Â¥ ni?, aby sme ho zastavili. ÄŒo máte nové? Confusão! Každý, kto rozumie významu tohto slova, vie už vtedy vÅ¡etko.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
I don't need to eat the stuff now because now I'm here-right in the middle of it!The soup I ordered in Colorado had all these little slices of vegetables and things, which at the time just looked like kitchen scrapings to me. But now I'm in the miso soup myself,just like those bits of vegetable. I'm floating around in this giant bowl of it, and that's good enough for me.
~ ryu murakami
No hagas nada en secreto, porque el tiempo lo ve todo y lo oye todo, y lo revela todo.
~ Sófocles
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion. Every one knows a great deal, we all know which way we ought to go and all the different ways we can go, but nobody is willing to move.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is the measure of what spirit there is. [...] In antiquity as well as in the Middle Ages there was an awareness of this longing for solitude and a respect for what it means; whereas in the constant sociality of our day we shrink from solitude to the point (what a capital epigram!) that no use for it is known other than as a punishment for criminals.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
one cannot seek for what he knows, and it seems equally impossible for him to seek for what he does not know. For what a man knows he cannot seek, since he knows it; and what he does not know he cannot seek, since he does not even know for what to seek.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
An illusion can never be destroyed directly, and only by indirect means can it be radically removed... That is, one must approach from behind the person who is under an illusion.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
sessizliklerin en kesini susmak deÄŸil, konuÅŸmaktir.
~ Soren Kierkegaard