Quotes About Awareness

In their rooms, some guests read or made love, but most of them slept, blissfully unaware of the fact that their innkeepers were losing their minds.

Malory! You've got a chipmunk on your pussy!

When the lungs finally empty of air and begin to fill with the sweetness of heaven's breath, one will realize in that instant that thought they have existed before, only in that moment will they truly have begun to live.

And yet, looking back on it now, she could see that God had been working on her behalf, even though she'd been blind to it.

Sure, why not?" she said. "You know, you read about a crime in the paper and you think how terrible for the victims, and then you turn the page and move on.

Don't step in the river without knowing its depth

Even when throwing in the river, measure what you throw

Frog dies because of its making noise

Known is a drop, unknown is an Ocean

What is learnt is a handful of sand, while what is unknown is the size of the world.

There's more to life than you can see. Your sight is limited.

I think it's fair rude to make him a tree and not know what kind he is.

Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy.

I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.

We think about mortality so little, these days, except to flail hysterically at it with trendy forms of exercise and high-fiber cereals and nicotine patches.

In all your life, only a few moments matter. Mostly you never get a good look at them except in hindsight, long after they've zipped past you: the moment when you decided whether to talk to that girl, slow down on that blind bend, stop and find that condom. I was lucky, I guess you could call it. I got to see one of mine face-to-face, and recognize it for what it was.

Do you see now why I believe in miracles? I used to imagine time folding over, the shades of our future selves slipping back to the crucial moments to tap each of us on the shoulder and whisper: Look, there, look! That man, that woman: they're for you; that's your life, your future, fidgeting in the line, dripping on the carpet, shuffling in that doorway. Don't miss it.

Reminded myself: the ones you don't like are a bonus. They can't fool you as easy as the ones you do.

Then all the sharp intricate peaks on the monitor smoothed out to clean straight lines and my father made a terrible growling sound, but even without any of that I would have known, because the air around us had split open and whirled and re-formed itself and there was one less person in the room.

If you put your energy into how much a fall would hurt, you're already half way down.

I've got good psychopath sensors now. It's like an allergy: you get exposed once, from then on you're supersensitized." She

My ribs opened up like windows, I'd forgotten you could breathe that deeply.

Eating a creature shouldn't be a light thing.

My granddad was after dying the month before that, of a stroke. That took him four days. Life seems like a big thing when it takes four days for all of it to leave a man. When it's gone in a few sec- and, it looks awful small all of a sudden. We don't like to face up to that, but the animals know it. They've no notions about their dying. It's a little thing, only, you'd get it done in no time. All it takes is one nip from a fox.