Quotes About Awareness

The whole world was this symphony, and there was not enough of her to listen.

There are those who know and those who don't know. And for every ten thousand who don't know there's only one who knows. That's the miracle of all time--the fact that these millions know so much but don't know this.

There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

For you see, when us people who know run into each other that's an event. It almost never happens. Sometimes we meet each other and neither guesses that the other is one who knows. That's a bad thing. It's happened to me a lot of times. But you see there are so few of us.

You don't know what it is to store up a lot of details and then come upon something real.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

All white people looked similar to Negroes but Negroes took care to differentiate between them. On the other hand, all Negroes looked similar to white men but white men did not usually bother to fix the face of a Negro in their minds.

The whole world was this music and she could not listen hard enough.

It was better to be in a jail where you could bang the walls than in a jail you could not see

But remembering don't come to a man face forward—it corners around sideways.

Jeder hat seine Gefühle – wer es auch ist –, und keiner geht in ein Haus, wo er weiß, dass seine Gefühle verletzt werden. Du auch. Ich hab zu viele Male gesehen, wie weiße Leute dich verletzt haben. Ich weiß das.

Worsely: You know what you were saying about a plastic bag. Suppose I put a plastic bag around my head and tied it tightly round the neck. What could possibly go wrong? Clegg: Some of them nowadays has safety holes. Worsely: Not all. I would have a look

When I was a girl I didn't know/I was a girl. I thought I was/more of a pigment, a choral tone,/some kind of weather that disrupts everyone's life in the living room.

Heads are useful ... And should be kept.

We know hardly anything about anything.

No one could work forward without falling if they continually looked at the path behind them.

Did people always have to wait for pestilence or war or tragedy to be shocked into forgetting about themselves?

Now I'll give you some advice, since you been asking for it. Happiness is like them plants you been yapping about. Sometimes it's growing right in your own backyard and you don't even know it.

I know how loud the seconds can sound as you stand by a window and peer out into the night.

When you don't know enough about life to know what you might have missed out on, your imagination plays wicked tricks on you.

Sometimes you need to be touched to know you're still alive.

You don't jump off a bridge by mistake.

what you don't know, you don't miss