Quotes About Awareness

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that.

We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.

We have learned to see the world in gasps.

Those who have been in trouble themselves are alert to it in others

Looking down, she became aware of the water, which was covered with a film of calcinous hard-water particles of dirt and soap, and of the body that was sitting in it, somehow no longer quite her own. All at once she was afraid that she was dissolving, coming apart layer by layer like a piece of cardboard in a gutter puddle.

I should have known better than to rely on pills. You can't buy unconsciousness quite so cheaply.

They blink and reality shivers.

There's time to spare. This is one of the things I wasn't prepared for - the amount of unfilled time, the long parentheses of nothing. Time as white sound.

So few people understand about anything.

knowledge is power, especially discreditable knowledge.

You shouldn't do that, said Laura. You could set yourself on fire.

you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.

As any bank robber can tell you (Nell would say), the best thing to do when running away is not to run. Just walk. Just stroll. A combination of ease and purposefulness is desirable. Then no one will notice you're running. In addition to which, don't carry heavy suitcases, or canvas bags full of money, or packsacks with body parts in them. Leave everything behind you except what's in your pockets. Lightest is best.

So many crucial events take place behind people's backs, when they aren't in a position to watch: birth and death, for instance. And the temporary oblivion of sex. "Don't even think about it," he tells himself. Sex is like drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

The people in the chaos cannot learn. They cannot understand what they are doing to the sea and the sky and the plants and the animals. They cannot understand that they are killing them, and that they will end by killing themselves. And there are so many of them, and each one of them is doing part of the killing, whether they know it or not. And when

I'm all ears," she said. An untruth—her ears were a small part of her—but I let that pass.

I began to forget myself in the middle of sentences.

One detaches oneself. One describes.

It's no good thinking you're invisible if you aren't

She said, What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know an hurt you very much.

I would like to be found. I would like to see. Or to be seen. I wonder if, in the eye of God, it amounts to the same thing.

Nobody nowhere knows what time it is.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

Nature may be dumb as a sack of hammers, Zeb used to say, but it's smarter than you.