Quotes About Awareness

The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something because it is always before one's eyes.) The real foundations of his enquiry do not strike a man at all

Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself. (Wittgenstein commenting on Sartre's Hell is other people.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

The aspect of things that are most important to us are hidden because of their familiarity and simplicity.

Nothing in the visual field allows you to infer that it is seen by an eye.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings.

In order to know an object, I must know not its external but all its internal qualities.

476. Children do not learn that books exist, that armchairs exist, etc. etc., - they learn to fetch books, sit in armchairs, etc. etc.

Say what you choose, so long as it does not prevent you from seeing the facts. (And when you see them there is a good deal that you will not say.)

Io non potevo vedermi vivere

Ah, to be no longer conscious of being, like a stone, like a plant! To remember no longer even one's own name! Stretched out upon the grass, hands interlaced at the back of one's neck, to look up at the dazzling, sun-puffed clouds as they sail past in the blue sky, to listen to the wind which makes, up there in the chestnut grove, a sound like the breaking of the sea.

we are ready enough to note the faults of others, while all the time unconscious of our own.

Parlo, parlo, dico sciocchezze, faccio lo svagato; ma non è vero, sai? Perché osservo tutto io, invece; osservo tutto!

Nulla turba e sconcerta piú di due occhi vani che dimostrino di non vederci, o di non vedere ciò che noi vediamo. Perché guardi cosí? E nessuno pensa che tutti dovremmo guardare sempre cosí, ciascuno con gli occhi pieni dell'orrore della propria solitudine senza scampo).

when you are in front of a mirror, the moment you look at yourself again, you are no longer alive.

Maalesef, ben var?m ve siz de vars?n?z. Maalesef.

For the drama lies all in this—in the conscience that I have, that each one of us has. We believe this conscience to be a single thing, but it is many-sided.

Solitude is never where you are; it is always where you are not, and is only possible with a stranger present

Reconoce tal vez, también usted, ahora, que hace un minuto era otro?

There is a minute in the day, a minute for everyone, though most everyone is too distracted to notice its arrival. A minute of gifts coming from the world like birthday presents. A minute given to every day that seems to create a golden bubble available to everyone.

Everybody knew that being dead could put you in a terrible mood.

Você só sabe exatamente até onde pode ir quando já foi.

What everyone fails to notice, when talking to the other humans, to mothers and lovers and strangers in the streeet, is the one obvious point: 'future corpse, future corpse.