Quotes About Awareness

Bez obzira na to jesmo li ratnici, svi se mi s vremena na vrijeme suo?avamo s kubnim centimetrom mogu?nosti. Razlika izme?u prosje?nog ?ovjeka i ratnika jest u tome što je ratnik toga svjestan, ostaje svjestan i budno ?eka kako bi taj kubni centimetar uhvatio ?im se pojavi.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn't aware of it.

And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.

We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much less their neighbors'. I tend to think we are what we remember, what we know. The less we remember, the less we know about ourselves, the less we are. (Interview with Three Monkeys Online, October 2008)

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

No hay lenguas muertas, sino cerebros aletargados.

Tiene usted mala cara - dictaminó. - Indigestión. - ¿De qué? - De realidad.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for human beings. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

Women have an infallible instinct for knowing when a man has fallen madly in love with them, especially when the male in question is both a complete dunce and a minor.

You only love truly once in your lifetime, even if you aren't always aware of it.

Although I could hear the echo of my footsteps, I could have sworn I was walking a few centimeters above the ground

Alcohol] cures everything, except for stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.

You don't look well, he pronounced. Indigestion, I replied. From what? Reality. Join the queue.

I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.

Pasamos la mayor parte de nuestra vida soñando, sobre todo cuando estamos despiertos

Truth cannot be found, son. It finds you.