Quotes About Awareness

The sense of despair has to remove those barriers one by one, and only then does despair penetrate to the heart of man who gradually recognises the enemy, calls it by name, and is horrified.

In general, you know that I am completely isolated from society and am unaware of all the recently adopted directives regarding the press.

So sickening was the spectacle that even the Nazis in the city were horrified, one proclaiming the massacre to be the work of "bestial machinery." Yet the Rape of Nanking remains an obscure incident. Unlike the atomic explosions in Japan or the Jewish holocaust in Europe, the horrors of the massacre at Nanking remain virtually unknown to people outside Asia. The massacre remains neglected in most of the historical literature published in the United States.

As we live our precarious lives on the brink of the void, constantly coming closer to a state of nonbeing, we are all too often aware of our fragitlity.

I ate and drank slowly as one should (cook fast, eat slowly) and without distractions such as (thank heavens) conversation or reading. Indeed eating is so pleasant one should even try to suppress thought. Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too. How fortunate we are to be food-consuming animals. Every meal should be a treat and one ought to bless every day which brings with it a good digestion and the precious gift of hunger.

Love is the Extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real

Si se entiende por eternidad, no la duración temporal sin fin, sino la ausencia de tiempo, vive eternamente el que vive en el presente.

Only the deeper parts of the mind have so little sense of time.

An experience is richest not talked of.

There are mysterious agencies of the human mind which, like roving gases, travel the world, causing pain and mutilation, without their owners having any full awareness, or even any awareness at all, of the strength and the whereabouts of these exhalations... So it is that we can be terrors to each other, and people in lonely rooms suffer humiliation and even damage because of others in whose consciousness perhaps they scarcely figure at all.

Anywhere is dangerous if you carry danger with you.

male company, sheer complicit male company: the complicity of males which is like, indeed is, a kind of complicity in crime, in chauvinism, in getting away with things, in just gluttonously enjoying the present even if hell is all around.

I am looking out of my window in an anxious and resentful state of mind, oblivious to my surroundings, brooding perhaps on some damage done to my prestige. Then suddenly I observe a hovering kestrel. In a moment everything is altered. The brooding self with its hurt vanity has disappeared. There is nothing now but kestrel. And when I return to thinking of the other matter it seems less important

Indeed, now I come to think of it, nearly everything in the world is relevant to my situation.

One forgot, one forgot. What hold had one on the past? The present moment was a little travelling in darkness.

I think women, perhaps unconsciously, convey to female children a deep sense of their own discontent.

You can't imagine what it's like when every moment you're conscious you're in the most frightful pain.

Perhaps one could not live with such knowledge. One might die for it, or of it.

I know her by intuition as if she were inside my head.

As it is I crawl on everyday towards the tomb. When I wake in the morning I think first of death, do you?

Ludens felt that everyone around him was living in the present, a place where he certainly could not live.

Look Moy, see the chimneys, they've lit all the fires, they must have known we were going to try to drown ourselves. And Anax is running on ahead to bring the news.

Time had never been visible to him before.

Ludens was continually aware of his father's distress.