Quotes About Awareness

It thrills me when a young person such as yourself speaks of dust issues!

There was still blood going down Henry's chin, but he didn't notice it and no one said anything, even though every time he took a bite of his bread his blood fell onto it until he was eating his own blood mixed in with the food.

And that was where the whiskey got hold of her. As it has with so many of us, even myself, the liquor sneaked up and grabbed her, got into her mind and talked to her, fooled her into thinking she was thinking for herself when really it was the whiskey thinking whiskey thoughts.

Clarice Lispector

Rain tapping through the brilliant leaves the only sound. She stopped. The sense of something there, with her, all around her, swirling and seething with energy. How intimately the trees seized the earth. How exquisitely she was included. Patrice closed her eyes and felt a tug. Her spirit poured into the air like song.

You rarely hear about police killings of Indigenous people, though the numbers are right up there with Black people, because so often it happens on remote reservations, and the police don't wear cameras. So I was thankful, however shattering the truth, for the witnesses with the cameras.

There were so many sensations in his body that he couldn't feel them all at once, and each, as soon as he felt it, slipped away into the past.

I am probably porous because it costs a lot to not be aware.

Rain tapping through the brilliant leaves the only sound. She stopped. The sense of something there, with her, all around her, swirling and seething with energy. How intimately the trees seized the earth. How exquisitely she was included. Patrice closed her eyes and felt a tug. Her spirit poured into the air like song. Wait! She opened her eyes and threw her weight into her cold feet. This must be how Gerald felt when he flew across the earth. Sometimes she frightened herself.

We'll get to the truth quicker if we don't worry about logic.

This is eternity, right here, for eternity is nothing other than awareness of time going by.

Women don't realize how much store men set on the regularity of their habits. We absorb their comings and goings into our bodies, their rhythms into our bones.

At first she didn't listen to it and then she heard what she was feeling. She said it several times to hear it better.

The point of power is always in the present moment.

In circumstances of real tragedy you see things straight away...past, present, and future together.

Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.

La plupart des gens ne meurent qu'au dernier moment ; d'autres commencent et s'y prennent vingt ans d'avance et parfois davantage.

Life is a classroom and boredom is the monitor.

C'est cela l'exil, l'étranger, cette inexorable observation de l'existence telle qu'elle est vraiment pendant ces quelques heures, lucides, exceptionnelles dans la trame du temps humain, où les habitudes du pays précédent vous abandonnent, sans que les autres, les nouvelles, vous aient encore suffisamment abruti.

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget.

That's how I am! eyes peeled, scientific! first things first! the big ones! the small ones!...if they're going to behead you...for example!...you don't take your eyes of the guillotine!...look, the blade's dull! -Executioner! you shout, hey, you lazy fucker! don't you have anyone sharpening that thing? And the executioner scurries off, shit-assed and sheepish!

The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess.

S rije?ima nikad nismo dovoljno na oprezu, rije?i se ?ine posve ništavne, svakako bezopasne, djeluju kao kakvi mali vjetrovi, mali glasovi iz usta, ni vru?i ni hladni, i lako hvatani ?im dopru kroz uho u golemu, sivu mlitavu dosadu mozga. Ne zaziremo od njih, rije?i, i eto ti nesre?e!

La grande défaite, en tout, c'est d'oublier, et surtout ce qui vous a fait crever.