Quotes About Awareness

soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof.

Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them

But, for the point of wisdom, I would choose / To know the mind that stirs between the wings / Of bees...

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?

Yes, young people are usually blind to everything but their own wishes, and seldom imagine how much those wishes cost others

We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves:

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heartbeat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

He, like others, happened to be looking at her, and their eyes met—to her intense vexation, for it seemed to her that by looking at him she had betrayed the reference of her thoughts, and she felt herself blushing.

When the commonplace We must all die tranfors itself suddenly into the acute consciousness I must die - and soon, then death grapples us, and his fingers are cruel; afterwards, he may come to fold us in his arms as our mother did, and our last moment of dim earthly discerning may be like the first.

Fielding lived when the days were longer (for time, like money, is measured by our needs), when summer afternoons were spacious, and the clock ticked slowly in the winter evenings.

If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar.

Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death—who was passing through one of those rare moments of experience when we feel the truth of a commonplace, which is as different from what we call knowing it as the vision of waters upon the earth is different from the delirious vision of the water which cannot be had to cool the burning tongue.

Development and catastrophe can often be measured by nothing clumsier than the moment-hand.

Quando vemos uma mulher perfeita, não pensamos nos seus atributos - estamos simplesmente conscientes da sua presença.

as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees

Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight - that, in fact, you are exploring a closed basin.

is so painful in you, Celia, that you will look at human beings as if they were merely animals with a toilet, and never see the great soul in a man's face.

They were alone together for the first time. What an overpowering presence that first privacy is!

Who knows that about anybody?

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the quickest of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.

There'd be two 'pinions about a cracked bell, if the bell could hear itself.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us. To

Stupefaction is not resignation; and it is stupefaction to remain in ignorance,–to shut up all the avenues by which the life of your fellow-men might become known to you.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.