Quotes About Awareness

I have no idea what depression even was until I was in my twenties, once I was pretty sure that I had it, I suffered with it for another fifteen years, because I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, and I was afraid.

Look around you—everyone here has their own internal monologue.

Because my brain is broken. There's all sorts of interesting medical and neurochemical reasons for it, and I've learned everything I can about them,* but knowing all of that isn't enough to make my brain magically start processing serotonin and norepinephrine and dopamine in a balanced way

40 minutes in a city is nothing. But 40 minutes along a rural highway seems like an eternity. So we're driving along, and I ask my friend if we're there yet, and he says no, so I say, "Jesus. By the time we get there, the kid won't even be dead anymore." There is this pause in the car, and one of the other actors says, "Dude. Did you just quote your own movie?" I answered in the affirmative, and he says, "That was very cool.

I also know that I've been letting depression make me feel like shit for the last month or so, and I know that depression lies, so I'm probably just fixated on all the worst case stuff, and not paying enough attention to the awesome stuff." And the second those words came out of my mouth, it was like someone cast Dispel Depression.* I felt the weight of it lift off me.

we in America have done a lot to help people who live with mental illness, we have not done nearly enough to make it okay for our fellow travelers on the wonky brain express to reach out and accept that help.

beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself.

Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice.

Where only angels tread, he would be a fool to rush in; though perhaps the wise may preserve their dignity if, aware of their presumption, they enter cautiously.

All a poet can do today is warn.

?nsan?n önemli anlarda dilsizle?en bir filozof oldu?unu ke?fetmesinden daha korkunç bir ?ey olamaz.

?nsanlar elimizdeki özgürlü?ün, harekete geçme de?il, sadece konu?ma ve hayal kurma özgürlü?ü oldu?unun fark?nda de?il.

Truth is dangerous when it concerns you.

Senin Führer'lerin, bütün açlar aras?ndan, k?z?l, beyaz ve kara olan açlar? ay?rt edebiliyor demek. Oysa biz biliyoruz ki insan denen tüm memeli hayvanlar?n açl?k çeken tek bir organ? vard?r...

Sana kar?? büyük bir sevgi besleyen, sana yard?m etmeye haz?r olan büyük adam? toplumsal ya?amdan ç?karan?n kendin oldu?unu göremiyorsun küçük adam.

Kendine dair f?kralar? duyuyor ve ba?kalar?yla birlikte bunlara kahkahalarla gülüyorsun. Kendinle alay etti?inden gülüyor de?ilsin. küçük adama gülüyorsun sen; ama kendine güldü?ünü, gülünecek halde oldu?unu bilmiyorsun. Milyonlarca küçük adam, insanlar?n kendilerine güldü?ünü, gülünecek halde olduklar?n? bilmiyorlar.

Seni, o senin evlilik yasalar?n?n zincirlerine vuran ?eyin kendi cinsel sorumsuzlu?un ve cinsel açl???n oldu?undan haberin bile yok.

People who do not understand themselves have a craving for understanding.

People get sick from ''not wanting to see''.

We have not the remotest realistic inkling of a consciousness which is not self-consciousness.

Don't let me think.

Open your eyes, boy. Your eyes. Open your eyes and no more turn aside and brood.

The years tumble past you like bits of paper on the street and you may not even feel the breeze at your back but then something catches your eye, a twist of black hair or a dog leaping to catch a tennis ball. The splintered chorus of a stupid pop song. You turn around and another chunk of your life drifts by like unrecognized trash and it was never yours to begin with.

Intelligence is the capacity to know what we are doing and instinct is just instinct. The results are about the same.