Quotes About Awareness

A slow nature such as Maurice's appears insensitive, for it needs time even to feel.

The present flowed by them like a stream. The tree rustled. It had made music before they were born, and would continue after their deaths, but its song was of the moment. The moment had passed. The tree rustled again. Their senses were sharpened, and they seemed to apprehend life. Life passed. The tree rustled again.

One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.

People turned out to be alive. Hitherto he had supposed that they were what he pretended to be - flat pieces of cardboard stamped with a conventional design… there came by no process of reason a conviction that they were human beings with feelings akin to his own.

I think - I think - I think how little they think what lies so near them.

In Rome one had simply to sit still and feel.

If one doesn't worry, how does one understand?

The world is certainly full of beautiful things, if only I could come across them.

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?

But let yourself go. You are inclined to get muddled, if I may judge from last night. Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself. It will be good for both of you.

She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors—Light.

He did not know, but presently he would know. Great is information, and she shall prevail.

I, though less optimistic, had supposed that knowledge would bring understanding. We had not realized that what the public loathes in homosexuality is not the thing itself but having to think about it

She could not have believed that stones, a Loggia, a fountain, a palace tower, would have such significance. For a moment she understood the nature of ghosts.

A matter neither sensual nor sensational is ignored by the art of today.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant. She missed Cecil's epigram, but grasped the feeling that prompted it.

She did not acknowledge that her brain was warped, for the brain itself must assist in that acknowledgement, and she was disordering the very instruments of life.

Lucy was slow to follow what people said, but quick enough to detect what they meant.

She was appallingly narrow, but her consciousness of wider things gave to her narrowness a pathetic charm.

Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them. By understanding George you may learn to understand yourself.

Oh, what have I done?" "You fainted." "I—I am very sorry.

It is pleasant to analyse feelings while they are still only feelings, and unembodied in the social fabric

He looked at her, instead of through her, for the first time since they were engaged.

efforts not so much to acquire knowledge as to dispel a little of the darkness by which we and all our acquisitions are surrounded.