Quotes About Awareness

Sie wissen das nicht, aber sie tun es.

The real pressure must be made more oppressive by making men conscious of the pressure, and the disgrace more disgraceful by publishing it.

How would I know which one I was?

Normally you can't hear your own voice cos you're talking over it

I was still getting my head round the fact that carrot juice existed

Neighbourhood Watch to me is checking my neighbours aren't outside their house before I leave the flat, to avoid getting into long discussions.

Got back and went to use the loo in Room 5 and was shocked at the state of it. Christian the producer was not well and had made a mess of it and the walls surrounding it. Even the cockroaches were running out the door. For the first time in my life I was aware that my face did a disgusted look. I decided I'd rather do it on the street than sit in there.

Gr?matas ir spogu?i: taj?s var redz?t tikai to, kas jau ir tev? paš?.

The illusory self, which exists conventionally and dependently, on the basis of its component parts, simply ceases to exist when those parts are rent asunder.

slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for

although anyone with half a brain must surely be mired in existential gloom all the time)

Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

There was always a second before the siren started when she was aware of a sound as yet unheard. It was like an echo, or rather the opposite of an echo. An echo came afterwards, but was there a word for what came before?

Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

the doors of perception are hanging crazily off their hinges these days.

Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.

Ah, I know, Bridget said. For sure, you have the sixth sense. Mrs. Glover, wrestling with the plum pudding, snorted her disapproval. She was of the opinion that five senses were too many, let alone adding on another.

How calm the house was. How deceptive that could be. One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs, she said to Ursula.

It just went to show, you never knew what you were going to feel until you felt it.

Why did people understand how precious each day was only once the doors to the grave had opened and they had looked inside? What was the point of that?

Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew nothing. When she grew up she planned to know everything and to keep it all a secret.

Really, every time a person said good-bye to another person, they should pay attention, just in case it was the last time. First things were good, last things not so much so.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.