Quotes About Awareness

We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every generation.

Quién es usted para discutir lo que pasa? Aquí estamos. ¿Qué es la vida, de todos modos? ¿Quién decide por qué, para qué o dónde? Sólo sabemos que estamos aquí, vivos otra vez, y no hacemos preguntas.

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

No hace falta quemar libros si el mundo empieza a llenarse de gente que no lee, que no aprende, que no sabe.

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 need to be really bothered once in a while.

If your reader feels the sun on his flesh, the wind fluttering his shirt sleeves, half your fight is won.

Si vous cachez votre ignorance, vous ne recevrez pas de coups et vous n'apprendrez rien.

We know the damn silly thing we just did. We know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it around where we can see it, some day we'll stop making the goddam funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We pick up a few more people that remember, every generation.

She could feel the mirrors waiting for her in each room much the same as you felt, without opening your eyes, that the first snow of winter has just fallen outside your window.

Cuando en la oscuridad olvidamos lo cerca que estamos del vacío –decía mi abuelo–, algún día se presentará y se apoderará de nosotros, porque habremos olvidado lo terrible y lo real que puede ser.

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

In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world. Why not learn about the senses of smell and hearing? Your characters must sometimes use their noses and ears or they may miss half the smells and sounds of the city, and all of the sounds of the wilderness still loose in the trees and on the lawns of the city.

No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes.

Nefesi burun deliklerinden girip ç?k?yordu; fakat nefesin gelip mi ç?kt???n?, ç?k?p m? girdiÄŸini önemsemiyordu.

Saben todos en el mundo...que están vivos?

No se puede obligar a la gente a que escuche. A su debido tiempo, deberá acudir, preguntándose qué ha ocurrido y por qué el mundo ha estallado bajo ellos

Como descubrir que el abuelo o papá quizá no lo saben todo

Thinking about it, noticing it, is new. You do things and don't watch. Then all of a sudden you look and see what you're doing and it's the first time, really.

Wherever I land, next time I'll look close, swear to God.

Vairums cilv?ku nevar visur aizbraukt, ar visiem sastapties, apce?ot visas pasaules pils?tas. Mums nav ne tik daudz laika, ne naudas, ne pazi?u. Tas, ko j?s mekl?jat, pasaul? eksist?, bet tikai vienu procentu no visa t? parastais cilv?ks ierauga sav?m ac?m. Visu p?r?jo vi?am sniedz gr?matas.

Evil has only the power that we give it

From now on I hope always to stay alert, to educate myself as best I can. But, lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Ugliness is a concept that we happen on later and become selfconscious about.