Quotes About Awareness

People live with blinders too; but ours are invisible, and much more sophisticated. Most of the time we don't even know they're there. Maybe we need them, though, because if we took in everything all at once, we'd lose our minds. Or worse, our souls. We'd see, we'd hear

Sometimes finding the obvious means coming in with no expectations.

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

Listen, my dear-- with soft step the night hears.

Celui qui regarde du dehors à travers une fenêtre ouverte, ne voit jamais autant de choses que celui qui regarde une fenêtre fermée.

No hay excusa para la maldad; pero el que es malo, si lo sabe, tiene algún mérito; el vicio más irreparable es el de hacer el mal por tontería.

Mes chers frères, n'oubliez jamais, quand vous entendrez vanter le progrès des lumières, que la plus belle des ruses du Diable est de vous persuader qu'il n'existe pas !

Lo maravilloso nos envuelve y nos empapa como la atmósfera; y, sin embargo, no lo vemos.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.

I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.

Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking. -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)

I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.

I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. Dumb fuckers. Their minds are full of shit. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.

They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.

one doesn't even think of the liver and if the liver doesn't think of us, that's fine.

You can shoot a barracuda between the eyes and it won't go to hell because it doesn't know where or what hell is...)

Often the best parts of life were when you weren't doing anything at all, just mulling it over, chewing on it. I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean? And optimistic pessimism.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. The best interpreter of the dream is the dreamer.