Quotes About Awareness

We will all miss him, even if we don't know it is his absence that is hurting us.

He was one of the vast numbers of people who cannot imagine themselves into the class or gender, least of all the emotions, of a different person. That is lack of vision or sensitivity, even compassion, but it is not stupidity.

We all know that things go on we'd sooner not think about, an' most folk mind their own affairs. But if yer forced ter know, then yer forced ter do summink.

Ignorance is something of an excuse, but not entirely. So often we do not look because if we looked we should feel obliged to do something.

Los hombres podían ser increíblemente tontos a veces, darse de bruces con lo evidente y aun así no verlo. Bien

What was presumed and what was actually known were two entirely different things.

Because being in love with someone is not the same as knowing them

There's a terrible temptation to look at only what you want to, and carefully avoid seeing anything else.

It's years since I've been shocked

the cuckolded husband but there was also laughter, a pity profoundly scarred with cruelty, relief that it was someone else. There were ribald jokes, slurs against manhood—and that was the ultimate insult, the unbearable thing that robbed the stuff of life but denied the peace of death. The victim was still sentient and raw to all the awareness of his loss. He would never have brought that upon himself, never—not in hot temper nor in cold revenge.

Yes, it was. More horrible than I ever want to think of again. But looking away doesn't solve anything

la debilidad era peligrosa. Quienes eran conscientes de sus desventajas eran quienes atacaban. Alguien

How did you tell people something they did not want to know? What did you need to say to have them question the bedrock on which their beliefs of themselves were built?

It's actually happening: all sorts of people seen as misfits, dealt with as if they were a disease. And the Germans get away with it, because most people simply can't believe it would ever happen to them.

Body neutrality is experiential and not something that happens overnight ... It's one awareness at a time, one thought at a time.

Every moment must be first known and then savored.

We breathe the light, we breathe the music, we breathe the moment as it passes through us.

I know nothing, because I know too much, and understand not nearly enough and never will.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

I resolved to move just a little bit more slowly through the world, to look around myself with greater care, and to try to remain conscious of all that was going on around me at all times.

Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

You do not know your vampire nature. You are like an adult who, looking back on his childhood, realizes that he never appreciated it. You cannot, as a man, go back to the nursery and play with your toys, asking for the love and care to be showered on you again simply because now you know their worth. So it is with you and mortal nature. You've given it up. You no longer look through a glass darkly. But you cannot pass back to the world of human warmth with your new eyes.

We're going to die and not even know. We'll never know, and all this meaninglessness will just go on and on and on. And we won't any longer be witnesses to it. We won't have even that little bit of power to give meaning to it in our minds. We'll just be gone, dead, dead, dead, without ever knowing!