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Quotes About Awareness

For a while everything became too terrible, one could scarcely bear to be conscious.
~ Iris Murdoch
Our relationship in fact was never idle. It was obvious that we constantly thought about each other.
~ Iris Murdoch
We ignore what we are doing until it is too late to alter it. We never allow ourselves quite to focus upon moments of decision; and these are often in fact hard to find even if we are searching for them.
~ Iris Murdoch
He had for many years now been spared the demons, though he was constantly aware of their continued presence. He could hear them, as it were, moving behind the wall. They belonged to him and would doubtless go with him to the grave. His mind too, like David's, ran irresistibly to the horror.
~ Iris Murdoch
When one is very close to Truth itself, truthfulness vanishes.
~ Iris Murdoch
You know as well as I do that one can be imprisoned in one's mind.
~ Iris Murdoch
Why can't you live in the present? You live everywhere but in the present.
~ Iris Murdoch
A human being hardly ever thinks about other people.
~ Iris Murdoch
There was a kind of sleeping or half-sleeping which I sometimes tried to achieve (especially at weekends) when I lay like a floating turtle, just breaking the surface of consciousness, aware and yet not self-aware, not yet tormented by being a particular person.
~ Iris Murdoch
At the very thought he felt a tendency to tremble.
~ Iris Murdoch
There's a kind of reality, a kind of truth.
~ Iris Murdoch
The role of philosophy might be said to be to extend and deepen the self-awareness of mankind.
~ Iris Murdoch
He knew the vulnerability of his strength.
~ Iris Murdoch
It's not even like memory. It's all just there. All the time, Willy? Every hour, every minute.
~ Iris Murdoch
Ordinary consciousness simply becomes pain.
~ Iris Murdoch
We all live in the interstices of each other's lives, and we would all get a surprise if we could see everything.
~ Iris Murdoch
You can't go through the looking-glass without getting cut. You know that now, don't you?
~ Iris Murdoch
His love for Janie was not accessible to memory, he knew it only on evidence.
~ Iris Murdoch
We think with our body, with its yearnings and its shrinkings and its ghostly walkings.
~ Iris Murdoch
The past buries the past and must end in silence, but it can be a conscious silence that rests open-eyed.
~ Iris Murdoch
Renton looks at her and sees her pain and anger. It cuts him up. It confuses him. Kelly has a great sense of humour. What's wrong with her? The knee–jerk thought: Wrong time of the' month is forming in his head when he looks about and picks up the intonations of the laughter around the bar. It's not funny laughter. This is lynch mob laughter. How was ah tae know, he thinks. How the fuck was ah tae know?
~ Irvine Welsh
Nae cunt kens
~ Irvine Welsh
Es bueno que la gente vea películas de guerra. Si todo el mundo viera películas de guerra, sabría que la guerra está mal y dejaría de luchar. Lo que sí está mal es que hay demasiadas películas de paz. Por eso la gente no puede ver con sus propios ojos que la guerra está mal.
~ Irvine Welsh
Bazen insanlar?n junkie olmay? fark?nda olmadan s?rf bir parça sessizlik istedikleri için seçtiklerini düÅŸünürüm.
~ Irvine Welsh