Quotes About Awareness

Sometimes I thought about my liver but my liver never spoke up, it never said, "Stop it, you're killing me and I'm going to kill you!" If we had talking livers we wouldn't need A.A.

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

Czekaj?c zabi?em 4 muchy. Cholera, ?mier? czai si? wsz?dzie.

in fact," I told her, "I am a genius but nobody knows it but me.

tienes la muerte cerca igual que una amante, más cerca, la conoces como la palma de tu mano como esa mancha en la pared como el nombre de tu hija.

Maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.

no te precipites. si existe la luz ella misma dará contigo.

You learn about death by dying not by looking at it.

News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. Ferris

Sadness is caused by intelligence. The more you understand certain things, the more you wish you didn't understand them.

sometimes I think I see them – say a certain old man sitting on a certain bench in a certain way or a quick face going the other way in a passing automobile

Casi siempre lo mejor de la vida consistía en no hacer nada en absoluto, en pasar el rato reflexionando, rumiando sobre ello. Quiero decir que pongamos que uno comprende que todo es absurdo, entones no puede ser tan absurdo porque uno es consciente de que es absurdo y la conciencia de ellos es lo que le otorga sentido. ¿Me entienden? Es un pesimismo optimista.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I didn't like what I saw down there.

When the agony of all the people is heard, nothing will be done.

But we are all finally tricked and slapped to death.

CzÄ™sto najlepsze chwile w ?yciu to te, kiedy nic nie robisz, tylko zastanawiasz siÄ™ nad swoim istnieniem, kontemplujesz ró?ne sprawy. I tak kiedy na przykÅ'ad mówisz, ?e wszystko nie ma sensu, to nie mo?e do koÅ"ca nie mie? sensu, bo przecie? jesteÅ› Å›wiadom, ?e nie ma sensu, a twoja Å›wiadomo?? braku sensu nadaje temu jakiÅ› sens. Rozumiecie, o co mi chodzi? Optymistyczny pesymizm.

Permiteme que te diga que en cuanto empiezas a admitir que un horror es un horror, al fin se hace MENOS horror.

Can you remember who you were before the world told you who you should be?

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 out 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? An optimistic pessimism.

When you've considered everything, you've considered too much.

From Bartolomé de Las Casas on, Europeans have known that their arrival brought about a catastrophe for Native Americans. "We, Christians, have destroyed so many kingdoms," reflected Pedro Cieza de León, the traveler in postconquest Peru. "For wherever the Spaniards have passed, conquering and discovering, it is as though a fire had gone, destroying everything in its path.

What seems unlikely to be undone is the awareness that Native Americans may have been in the Americas for twenty thousand or even thirty thousand years. Given that the Ice Age made Europe north of the Loire Valley uninhabitable until some eighteen thousand years ago, the Western Hemisphere should perhaps no longer be described as the "New World.

Dear God, please don't close my eyes to realities. I'd rather stand aware and trembling before each betrayal, face--diminished and disappointed--every lie. Don't, God, allow me to become susceptible to some crafty masquerade. In my bed, I'd rather lay in darkness between myself and my self...touching only uncertainty or holding on to You.

We wake out of our dreams and wonder where the blood in our hands came from.