Quotes About Awareness

The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught.

Those unable to catalog the past are doomed to repeat it.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

The right hand doesn't know what the left is doing" is a phrase that refers to times when people ought to know, but don't know, about something that is happening very close to them. For instance, you ought to know about the man who watches you when you sleep.

If you know somebody very well, like your grandmother or your baby sister, you will know when they are real and when they are fake.

There are many things in life that become different if you take a long look at them.

Sometimes you can't really tell when you are happy until it is over and you are thinking about it later

I didn't realize this was a sad occasion.

If only Uncle Monty knew what we know," Violet said, "and Stephano knew that he knew what we know. But Uncle Monty doesn't know what we know, and Stephano knows that he doesn't know what we know." "I know," Klause said. "I know you know," Violet said

Everybody will die, of course, sooner or later. Circus performers will die, and clarinet experts will die, and you and I will die, and there might be a person who lives on your block, right now, who is not looking both ways before he crosses the street and who will die in just in a few seconds, all because of a bus. Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

Hungry people should be fed. It takes some people a long time to figure this out.

Sometimes, even the best of plans will occur to you when it is too late.

The children knew, as I'm sure you know, that there is usually no reason to be afraid of the dark, but even if you are not particularly afraid of something, you might not want to get near it

It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try to readjust the way you thought of things.

Sometimes, when you are reading a book you are enjoying very much, you begin thinking so hard about the characters and the story that you might forget all about the author, even if he is in grave danger and would very much appreciate your help. The same thing can happen if you are looking at a photograph. You might think so hard about whatever is in the photograph that you forget all about the person behind the camera.

Memento mori- remember you will die.

People often forget to look at something right in front of them.

Memento Mori' means 'Remember you will die.

But there are things that are difficult to see not because of the size of their surroundings, or a clever disguise, or a treacherous person with a book of matches in his pocket and a fiendish plot in his brain, but because the things are so upsetting to look at, so distressing to believe, that it is as if your eyes refuse to see what is right in front of them.

It is not enough in this world to be kindhearted, particularly if you are responsible for keeping children out of danger.

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them, so they will not be embarrassed.

And if you jump for joy, you have a very good chance of experiencing a painful bump on the head, unless you make sure you are standing someplace with very high ceilings, which joyous people rarely do.

Momento mori- Remember you will die.