Quotes About Awareness

The time for fooling himself was over: something new and dreadful was going on inside Ivan Ilyich, something significant, more significant than anything in his whole life. And he was the only one who knew it; the people around him didn't know, or didn't want to know-they thought that everything in the world was going on as before. This was what tormented Ivan Ilyich more than anything.

Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity.

When he did not think, but simply lived, he was continually aware of the presence of an infallible judge in his soul, determining which of two possible courses of action was the better and which was the worse, and as soon as he did not act rightly, he was at once aware of it.

long. I cannot now help seeing day and night going round and bringing me to death. That is all I see, for that alone is true. All else is false.

your consciousness of existence is derived from the conjunction of all your sensations, that that consciousness of existence is the result of your sensations.

assuming there are no sensations, it follows that there is no idea of existence.

si Eugène Irténieff était un malade psychique, alors tous les hommes le sont également, et parmi eux les plus malades sont ceux qui voient les indices de la folie chez les autres et ne les voient point en eux-mêmes.

I could not even wish to know the truth, for I guessed of what it consisted. The truth was that life is meaningless. I

Death is more certain than tomorrow, night after day, winter after summer. So why do we prepare for tomorrow, night and winter, but not death?

Beni tan?d???n? sand?. Oysa beni tan?yan herhangi bir kimsenin tan?d??? kadar az tan?yor beni o da.Kendim bile tan?m?yorum kendimi.Frans?zlar?n deid?i gibi, nelerden zevk ald???m?biliyorum, yaln?zca.

Am I mad because I see what others do not, or are they mad that do these things that I see?

And here we live and know nothing,

He was swept by a lovely, heart-warming sensation that was quite new to him; the sight of those two little girls had suddenly made him aware that there were such things as other human interests, million miles from his own but no less legitimate.

La soledad es para el alma la magnífica ocasión de conocerse, de vigilarse, de formarse a sí misma

The Diplomat sits in silence, watching the world with his ears.

In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.

Value time!!! It's only when we lack time for ourselves that we start valuing it.

És hiszem Keatsszel, hogy a föld költészete véget mindaddig nem lel, amíg a telet tavasz követi, és van ember, aki észleli. Hiszem, hogy ebbÅ'l a földbÅ'l olyan zene sarjad, amely forrásai természeténél fogva tonális.

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded, Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed, Everybody knows that the war is over, Everybody knows the good guys lost.

I will not be held like a drunkard / under the cold tap of facts

Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich That's how it goes Everybody knows

I never think about The Past but sometimes The Past thinks about me and sits down ever so lightly on my face—

L'autostrada era vuota. Erano gli unici due in fuga e questa consapevolezza li rendeva più amici che mai. Bravman ne era inebriato. Diceva: "Krantz, di noi troveranno solo una striscia d'olio sul pavimento del garage, senza nemmeno i riflessi dell'arcobaleno". Ultimamente Krantz era molto silenzioso, ma Breavman era sicuro che pensasse le stesse cose.