Quotes About Awareness

Let you alone! That's all very well, but how can I leave myself alone? We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right.

Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds.

I'm really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don't remember!

Have you ever watched the jet cars race on the boulevard?...I sometimes think drivers don't know what grass is, or flowers, because they never see them slowly...If you showed a driver a green blur, Oh yes! He'd say, that's grass! A pink blur! That's a rose garden! White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.

He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough.

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

Thinking little at all about nothing in particular.

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.

Ignorance is fatal.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need.

I'd like to know what a place is like when I'm not there . I'd like to be sure .

I don't talk things, sir,' said Faber. 'I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I'm alive.

Self-conciousness is the enemy of all creativity.

Trains and boxcars and the smell of coal and fire are not ugly to children. Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become self-conscious about.

You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with nonreaders, nonlearners, non-knowers?

Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.

We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.

We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you now to know with which ear you'll listen.

It's just...It's just, if I didn't see these windows until today, what else did I miss?