Quotes About Awareness

Si hay ciclista, no monta la bicicleta como si fuera una de esas maquinas brutales de los gimnasio, sino que se pasea demoradamente en ella, inclinado sobre el manillar, mirando a su alrededor, acompasado su pedaleo al ritmo apaciguado de las cosas.

Tantos años angustiado por la obsesión de terminar cuanto antes las cosas, de saltar de un minuto a otro como de un vagón a otro en un tren en marcha y ahora empieza a intuir que lo que le faltaba tal vez no era velocidad sino lentitud, paciencia y no confusa agitación.

A veces uno no se da cuenta de las cosas más obvias si alguien no le llama la atención sobre ellas.

A sharp awareness of the other, invisible world to which he could return soon made more tolerable the painstaking ugliness of the one where he now found himself and where, in spite of the passage of years, he'd never stopped being a stranger, an intruder.

Era asombrosa la amplitud de lo que uno mismo era capaz de no ver tan solo empeñándose en una ceguera más rigurosa todavía porque era voluntaria.

He'd been one of those daytime men for whom night falls earlier and earlier in their lives.

because her sharp intelligence allowed her to understand the extent of what she hadn't learned.

Ignacio Abel feels a weariness he doesn't remember having experienced before, all the more evident in the presence of someone younger (but he didn't feel the age difference when he was with Judith; how strange to have lived so long in a state of total unawareness, to have thought himself immune to the years, to weakness, to death)

Only Judith's presence expanded his capacity for seeing, opened his eyes to things he wouldn't have noticed without her.

Nunca soy más yo mismo que cuando guardo silencio y escucho, cuando dejo a un lado mi fatigosa identidad y mi propia memoria para concentrarme del todo en el acto de escuchar, de ser plenamente habitado por las experiencias y los recuerdos de otros.

I think there are many more despicable people than I ever imagined.

Without this ridiculous vanity that takes the form of self-display, and is part of everything and everyone, we would see nothing, and nothing would exist.

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.

Because they know the name of what I am looking for, they think they know what I am looking for!

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

We tear life out of life to use it for looking at itself.

We become aware of the void as we fill it.

Cuando tú y la verdad me hablan, no escucho a la verdad. Te escucho a tí.

When I die, I will not see myself die, for the first time.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

E per riaddormentarmi penso che ti scriverei che non sapevo che il tempo non aspetta, davvero non lo sapevo, non si pensa mai che il tempo è fatto di gocce, e basta una goccia in più perché il liquido si sparga per terra e si allarghi a macchia e si perda.

Per conoscere un luogo non è sempre necessario esserci stati.