Quotes About Awareness

May I remind you all about the importance of hand-washing, seven times a day at least, and after every encounter with a stranger. It is never too early to practise this essential precaution. Avoid anyone who is sneezing.

at a time, a quick move of the head, up and down, to the side and back. We have learned to see the world

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked; as I never was when I was not one.

What would I have done if I had been my mother? She must have realized what was happening to me, or that something was. Even toward the beginning she must have noted my silences, my bitten fingers, the dark scabs on my lips where I'd pulled off patches of the skin. If it were happening now, to a child of my own, I would know what to do. But then? There were fewer choices, and a great deal less was said.

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed.

Like stage magic, knowledge before you knew it took place before your very eyes, but you were looking elsewhere.

But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are.

You must observe the risings of the Sun and the changings of the Moon, because to everything there is a season. On

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

I hardly hear them any more because I hardly listen.

There are a great many buttocks in this room. I am no longer used to them.

William sits opposite her, drinking water from a Murray's glass with a trace of lipstick on the rim. His fingers hold the glass, his other hand lies on the table, his neck comes out of his shirt collar, which is light green, and on top of that is his head. His eyes are blue and he has two of them. This is the sum total of William in the present tense.

Ignorieren ist nicht das gleiche wie Ignoranz, man muß etwas dazu tun.

while he himself puts them on, like a sock over a foot, onto the stub of himself, his extra, sensitive thumb, his tentacle, his delicate, stalked slug's eye, which extrudes, expands, winces, and shrivels back into himself when touched wrongly, grows big again, bulging a little at the tip, traveling forward as if along a leaf, into them, avid for vision.

I try not to think too much. Like other things now, thought must be rationed. There's a lot that doesn't bear thinking about.

listen. the leaves no longer rustle, the wind no longer sighs, our hearts no longer beat. They've fallen silent. Fallen, as if into the earth. Or is it we who have fallen? Perhaps it's not the world that is soundless but we who are dear. What membrane seals us off from the music we used to dance to? Why can't we hear?

There were the garden shears, the knitting needles; the world is full of weapons if you're looking for them. I should have paid attention

Me estiro, pues, dentro de la habitación, bajo el ojo de escayola del techo, detrás de las cortinas blancas, entre las sábanas, y me deslizo dentro de mi propio tiempo, abandonando el ritmo que nos marcan. Aunque esto también forma parte del ritmo, y yo no estoy fuera de él.

I'm developing a knack for this, I can sniff out hidden misery in others now with hardly any effort at all.

Chewing with my mind full. Stuff comes out my mouth." And

What were these animals then? They didn't have names, but I knew what they were.

Why do you want to talk about ugly things? she said. ... 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 looking only at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you. She would never tell him. Why did this drive him so crazy? It wasn't real sex was it? he asked. In the movies. It was only acting. Wasn't it? But Jimmy, you should know. All sex is real.

did I think it would nonetheless be business as usual? Because we'd been hearing these things for so long, I suppose. You don't believe the sky is falling until a chunk of it falls on you.