Quotes About Awareness

Moins le blanc est intelligent, plus le noir lui paraît bête.

Tik per savo meil? jai suvokiau es?s ir prad?jau iš tikr?j? gyventi.

Il faut se rendre à l'évidence; Car, dans ce bas monde, la danse Précède souvent la chanson.

The need of showing myself to be confident and perfectly at ease, precisely when I am least so. Talked much too much, as I am inclined to do after a period of solitude, losing self-control; for I was aware that I was talking too much, but could not check myself. In order to speak well, I need to feel that I am being listened to.

J'écoute si bien les oiseaux; je crois que je comprends tout ce qu'ils disent.

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

The important thing is that man is lost in time, in the moment that immediately precedes him - which only attests, by reflection, to the fact that he is lost in the moment that follows

I blinked and looked around my tiny rented kitchen, saw things I'd never seen before: the stove leaning to the left, the handle of the fridge covered with dirty masking tape, the chipped paint of the window casing, a missing square of linoleum on the floor under the radiator. I stood and closed the notebook. I picked up the pencil and set it on top like some kind of marker, a reminder to me of something important I shouldn't lose.

She was speaking again, her voice like the chirp of a bird who has flown into a black tunnel but does not yet know it.

But now his body feels like some dumb beast he merely exists inside, and every now and then it lets him know it needs to do something: To eat. To piss or shit. To move or just lie down and rest.

To the spectator the ex-Commando might be standing impassively, the meerkats clinging to him, his hand resting lightly on Surra's round skull, the eagle quiet on his shoulder. But an awareness, which was unuttered, unheard speech, linked him with animals and bird. The breadth of that communication could not be assessed outside a 'team,' but it forged them into a harmonious whole, which was a weapon if need be, a companionship always.

Mais vous avez dû tomber amoureux, n'est-ce pas ? Vous êtes devenu du jour au lendemain un homme heureux ! C'est ça ? Les gens heureux, tant qu'ils sont heureux, ne remarquent pas les anomalies, mais ce n'est que temporaire. Les anomalies sont toujours là, à côté d'eux!

It was through Peter that she first understood that the world existed before her, without her. For a few days she could not forgive him for this.

Arriva un momento – pinsò – nel quale t'adduni, t'accorgi che la tua vita è cangiata. Ma quando è successo? – ti domandi. E non trovi risposta, fatti impercettibili si sono accumulati fino a determinare la svolta. O macari fatti ben visibili, di cui però non hai calcolato la portata, le conseguenze. Spii e rispii, ma la risposta a quel «quando» non la sai trovare. Come se avesse importanza, poi!

Much of society is set up specifically to assist people in their process of ignoring the horrors of the world.

You damn well better believe that you're involved in this tragedy and that it's your tragedy too. Because you're turned into little soldier boys from the day that you are born and everything that you learn about how to avoid the humanity of women becomes part of the militarism of the country in which you live and the world in which you live.

It's not as if there's an empty patch that one can see and so one can say, 'There's my ignorance; it's about ten by ten and a dozen feet high and someday someone will fill in the empty patch.

And as always, it is surprisingly small, as the voice of the conscience is said to be.

You don't ever know how happy you are until you remember how sad you once were and vice versa. Nothing is anything until I decide to hold nothing next to something, and declare that I see a difference.

And the sad happiness said, You know precisely when you're going to finish.

To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.

Why do I feel this alone? Basically, because I've always been alone. I've always been alone. And alone I'll be. It's about time I become aware of it and never forget it.

No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing and changing within time.

The only function of consciousness is to produce fabrications. True knowledge is achieved in the heart and in the soul.