Quotes About Awareness

He'd died before she moved to Chicago, but she'd followed the story of his shooting with the same queasy horror as the killings of Freddie Gray and Eric Garner.

He thought of getting out of bed but did not get out of bed. Why? What for? Everyone else seemed to know. Like there had been a meeting no one had told him about, where a secret was shared. Those who knew the secret did not wonder why they should get out of bed. He

one to see a trucker

He hadn't really known them, and like most people, he was just solipsistic enough to not truly believe they existed when he wasn't there. We're all background characters in someone else's movie. Maybe

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it.

To learn the true value of something, all you had to do was lose it. Brody poured drinks in crystal tumblers.

All he could do was try to focus, to put his attention on the woman right in front of him and the angle of her shoulder that meant she was about to shift her bag. To the man about to speak to his friend. To the little girl who looked a lot like Kate—no, push that away, no time now to think about Kate—reaching up for her mother's hand. When

The secret to the game is that beginners—actually, intermediate players, too, and sometimes masters—they tend to look at just the one side. But the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

bullet missing your head by an inch, you never forget

the trick to chess is to be paying more attention to what the other side is doing.

the problem with looking for your glasses is that you don't have your glasses on while you're looking . . .

He never realized how noisy American silence was until all the gadgets died.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

Love, sing, cry, and fight, but all the time, seek to know everything you can about the earth upon which you stand, till your time is done.

It was like a new kind of vision, seeing with eyes as keen as scalpel blades, that cut away desires and emotions and wishful thinking and left only what was fact.

If I can see the future, then what does that mean? It would be like knowing the end of a story right from the start, almost as if you were reading it backwards. And who wants to know how their own story ends?

try thinking the same thing by darkness and see how different if feels.

No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.

Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.)

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times

Vivere est cogitare. (To think is to live)

It is up to each of us to take responsibility for controlling the way we percieve and react to the world, and learn to adjust to changing circumstances.

There is no way to be completely happy without being oblivious to the world around you.