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Quotes About Awareness

Only the opium eater truly understands the pain of death.
~ John Cheever
It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases - one was Alzheimers, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimers.
~ Terry Pratchett
The most dreadful thing of all is that many millions of people in the poor countries are going to starve to death before our eyes. We shall see them doing so upon our television sets.
~ C.P. Snow
When I found out that coffins are padded, I stopped fearing death.
~ Dana Gould
Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.
~ Raymond Chandler
It's a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is not sufficient to break it.
~ Kalle Lasn
There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.
~ Tim Minchin
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
A brush with death always helps us to live our lives better.
~ Paulo Coelho
To those who had ordered them to death, one of them said: "We die because the people are asleep and you will die because the people will awaken."
~ Carl Sandburg
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day When the last fires will wave to me
~ W. S. Merwin
An awareness of death encourages us to live more intensely.
~ Paulo Coelho
I strongly believe that each preventable death is one death too many.
~ Christy Turlington
Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.
~ T. S. Eliot
Too strong a media emphasis on death and violence can lead to despair.
~ Dalai Lama
Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.
~ William Wake
And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.
~ Ellen Hopkins
You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.
~ Billie Letts
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
~ Bill Vaughan
If we're bringing up kids that are so stupid that they kill themselves because of a song, what good are the kids in the first place ?
~ Marilyn Manson
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
~ Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen
A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
~ Dean Koontz, The Husband
Meditation is a dress rehearsal for death.
~ Adyashanti
age is nothing but death that is conscious.
~ Ouida