Quotes About Awareness

There are many ways in which the check brain light illuminates, but here's the screwed-up part: the driver can't see it. It's like the light is positioned in the backseat cup holder, beneath an empty can of soda that's been there for a month. No one sees it but the passengers—and only if they're really looking for it, or when the light gets so bright and so hot that it melts the can, and sets the whole car on fire.

When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.

Wailing that the sky is falling does nothing to stop it.

Funny how you don't realize what's missing until you've found it.

In this world, there is a fine line between enlightenment and brain damage.

But this isn't a perfect world. The problem is people who think it is. -Connor

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

Time is never of the essence until someone decides that it is.

It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

You don't just go to somebody and say, 'I'm a better person because you're in my head.

And perhaps you can sense, in some small twisting loop of your gut, the convergence of the wrong, of the right, and of the woefully misguided. If you do, then pay sharp attention to the moment you wake, and the moment you fall asleep...For maybe then you will know, without a shadow of a doubt, which is which.

I was using, I tell her. And God was my drug dealer. She doesn't get it. Tripping on my own brain chemicals. The dope I was doing was already inside.

We must always be careful of the actions we take, for there are always unintended consequences. Sometimes they are serendipitous, other times they are appalling, but those consequences are always there. We must tread lightly in this world...until we are sure of foot.

It is the nature of life to fear its own end. This is how I know that we are truly alive.

When it comes to such open-heart reflection, I'm a firm believer in the observer effect, which states that anything you try to observe is automatically changed by the mere fact that you're looking at it. The way I see it, if you try to study your emotions on a microscopic level, the best you can do is understand how it feels to hold the magnifying glass.

shouldn't the punishment for failure be the awful knowledge of that failure?

Do we exist because others perceive our existence, or is, indeed, our own affirmation enough?

I won't tell you what to look for, because if I do, you'll miss the things you would intuitively find.

I believed, in my arrogance, that I had a keen grasp of the big picture that others lacked. But of course, I was just as limited as anyone else. When I gleaned the president and his cabinet, it shook the world – but the world was already shaking just fine without me.

Tomorrow is going to have to take care of itself for a while, Alyssa says. Then she adds, Yesterday, too.

I conclude it would be a good place to be alone with my thoughts, but I should already know that my thoughts are never alone.

For once, the entire scythedom seemed to agree there was something afoot that was more important than food.

Today you're in a hospital. Or at least this morning. This hour. This minute. Where you'll be three minutes from now is anyone's guess. You've begun to notice, though, that, bit by bit the sense of being outside yourself has diminished with each passing day. A critical mass is reached, and now your soul collapses in upon itself. You're back inside the vessel of your body. Just one. Just you. Just an individual. Me.

You see through the facade of the world, Citra Terranova. You'd make a good scythe. Citra recoiled. I'd never want to be one. That, he said, is the first requirement.