Quotes About Awareness

The world sharpened suddenly, as brilliant and bright as when she got rain in her eye.

Now his knowledge was her knowledge.

Remember when you asked me why I didn't hit Geordie? It was because I don't know how. That little girl in Arkansas doesn't, either. You do. I know that.

Cei called more taunts, but she was smelling the wind and no longer listening.

I was hungry for another viewpoint, to see Julia for the first time.

How had she managed to get inside me, slip between my ribs and rest against my heart without me feeling it?

It was obvious." "Maybe to you.

While she watched, she let her own feet find their way; she knew every root, every rut and hare scrape, every fallen bough in this glade.

An intrusive leap, an apparently inexplicable impulse, can save your life or someone else's, but it's rare to find a person who can trust their instincts to that degree. You have to be able to get out of your own way. It's always fascinating to watch.

Hidden in the leafy canopy, sometimes she stayed so still and quiet even the birds forgot she was there.

Her mother, changing sides so gradually, so carefully that even Hild hadn't noticed.

This was how it would be for her, she realised when Edwin king decided he no longer needed a seer. She would stand, plump and fed and brushed like a sacrificial cow, with gilded horns and a ribbon around her neck, too stupid to know she was being led to slaughter.

We could acknowledge it between us as long as it remained unspoken.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

In a century where the media publish endless stupidities, the cultured man is defined not by what he knows but by what he ignores.

Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching the walls of his dungeon.

Only he lives his life who observes it, thinks it, and says it; the rest let life live them.

Everything that makes man feel that mystery envelops him makes him more intelligent.

The newspaper collects the previous day's garbage in order to feed it to us for breakfast.

Perception of reality, today, dies crushed between modern work and modern entertainment.

The imbecile does not discover the radical misery of our condition except when he is sick, poor, or old.

Chi si lamenta dell'angustia dell'ambiente in cui vive pretende che siano gli avvenimenti, i vicini, i paesaggi a fornirgli la sensibilità e l'intelligenza che la natura gli ha negato.

Making us feel intelligent is how nature notifies us that we are saying something stupid.

Quienes gimen sobre la estrechez del medio en que viven pretenden que los acontecimientos, los vecinos, los paisajes, les den la sensibilidad y la inteligencia que la naturaleza les negó.