Quotes About Awareness

Have we ever thought to consider that God allows things in our lives to die so that in that death we might come to the precious realization of how little we've actually lived in the first place?

The very possibility of death focuses the mind wonderfully.

All death matters.""Only to the living.

I really should talk to him. He's had a near-death experience!""We all have. It's called living."(Hogfather)

Angels often do now know whether they walk among the dead or living.

Death changes us, the living. In the presence of death, we become more aware of life.... It can inspire us to decide what really matters in life--and then to seek it. (Founder of M.A.D.D.)

The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.

It would take me a long time to understand how systems inflict pain and hardship in people's lives and to learn that being kind in an unjust system is not enough.

You know, darkness is a funny thing. Little by little, it creeps up on you and before you know it, you can't escape it

One of the major destruction of man is distraction

Death is another inevitable consequence of possessing something without its understanding.

How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it.

A chap's impending death has a way of focusing the mind.

Sufism, in one definition, "is" human life.

You are going to die in front of dozens of witnesses, and none of them will do a thing to help you or avenge you. Because they know exactly what you know: The world is ending.

Those that see too much quickly find themselves seeing nothing at all.

You need to know what you are before you can become what you are supposed to be. In order to know what you are now, you must learn what you are going to be.

I can just barely tell when you're afraid because that is the only emotion I have been able to recognize.

You never know when you're going to die, but maybe something in you does, some cellular consciousness that's aware of the cosmic countdown and starts making plans.

But who thinks of death in the middle of life?"-Mike RogersEndless Night by Agatha Christie

I've adopted the guideline of Warren Buffett's partner, Charlie Munger, who says "I wanna know where I'll be when I die - so I never go there.

...Death, " she said, as her hand dropped away, " is how you know you were alive in the first place.

The thing with dying, well, with death really, is that there's a difference between being someone who knows they can really die at any time and someone who doesn't.

Being certain one is alive isn't something to which one pays mind. If you could ask the question, you were fine. If you could not, hopefully you had a cozy coffin.