Quotes About Awareness

He leaned against the door. Lord save her from men who leaned.

Americans don't know a lot about the Middle East — [they] don't know we laugh.

?uvala me, i pored svega, onakvog kakav sam bio u njenim snovima. ?arobnja?ki me sastavljala od razbijenih komada, možda i ne prime?uju?i pukotine

Najmanje se govori kad te se najviše ti?e.

?ovjek doduše naj?eš?e govori radi sebe, ali mora da osjeti odjek svojih rije?i.

Žena zna, žene uvijek znaju, makar ništa ne bilo re?eno, i prije ?e pomisliti da jest nego da nije.

Najteže se govori o onome što te se najviše ti?e.

It became clear to me how men die. I saw that it is not so hard. Or easy. It is nothing. One just starts living less and less, being less and less, thinking, feeling and knowing less and less. The rich flow of life dries up, and only a thin thread of uncertain consciousness remains, more and more meager, more and more insignificant. And then nothing happens, there is not anything, there is nothing. And nothing matters—it is all the same.

But there could be no new beginning, nor would one be important. We are not aware when new beginnings arrive; we only discover them later when they have already engulfed us, when everything merely continues. Then we believe that everything could have been different, but it could not have, and so we rush into springtime, so as not to think about nonexistent beginnings or unpleasant continuations.

i ljeto se ohladilo, a mi smo se krili mrakom, ne žele?i da iko sazna koliko smo postali potrebni jedno drugome. A svi su znali. Sve više sam s njom, i kad sam sam.

Svijet ne spava, svijet nikada sav ne spava, ?ini mi se da nisam sam.

Nai?e jedan trenutak kad ?ovjek postane kona?no svjestan gubitka, kad više ne može da bude hrabar. Ili kad može da bude samo hrabar.

žele?i da te vidim cijelu a ne o?ekuju?i da je to mogu?e, iako sam znao da postojiš

I had been generalizing about the world so much that I began to lose my grasp of it.

Tajna se duže pamti nego jasna istina.

A onda mi je došlo do svijesti da je opasno i ovo radosno posmatranje, nisam se više osje?ao nadmo?an, ni skriven, oživjelo je nešto neželjeno u meni. Nije to bila strast, ve? možda gore od toga: uspomena.

Znaš li šta sam mislio dok si govorio? Kako neki ljudi mogu da kažu sve što ho?e, i možeš da primiš ili ne primiš, ostaješ miran. A neki u jesnu rije? unesu sebe, i odjednom se sve zažari, niko ne ostaje miran. Osjetimo da se nešto važno dešava.

Transformation does not happen by learning new information. It happens when you change how you view and react to other people, events and things around you.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. —Friedrich Nietzsche

I was pretty far gone, but not so far gone that I thought anyone with half a toehold in reality would think what we were doing was a good idea.

I was dying, of course, but then we all are. Every day, in perfect increments.

Life's pleasures were so simple, really. It was all a matter of appreciating what you had - and knowing that things could always be worse.

Feeling are like three-year-olds. They're not rational. They're just there.

I was touched that he has considered the fact that there would be two of us, and prepared for it - concrete evidence that I had entered his consciousness at a time when I was not standing in front of him. A thrilling discovery - like seeing a chimp make tools.