Quotes About Awareness

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.

I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...

Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.

Any life, however long and complicated it may be, actually consists of a single moment — the moment when a man knows forever more who he is.

To see a thing one has to comprehend it. An armchair presupposes the human body, its joints and limbs; a pair of scissors, the act of cutting. What can be said of a lamp or a car? The savage cannot comprehend the missionary's Bible; the passenger does not see the same rigging as the sailors. If we really saw the world, maybe we would understand it.

Time is living me.

El hombre olvida que es un muerto que conversa con muertos.

To think is to forget.

A pesar de que la vida de un hombre se componga de miles y miles de momentos y días, esos muchos instantes y esos muchos días pueden ser reducidos a uno: el momento en que un hombre averigua quién es, cuando se ve cara a cara consigo mismo.

Dormir, según se sabe, es el mas secreto de nuestros actos. Le dedicamos una tercera parte de nuestra vida y no lo comprendemos. Para algunos no es otra cosa que el eclipse de nuestra vigilia; para otros, un estado más complejo, que abarca a un tiempo el ayer, el ahora y el mañana; para otros, una no interrumpida serie de sueños.

All our lives we postpone everything that can be postponed; perhaps we all have the certainty, deep inside, that we are immortal and sooner or later every man will do everything, know all there is to know.

Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.

Dormir es distraerse del universo, y la distracción es difícil para quien sabe que lo persiguen con espadas desnudas.

I suspected once that any human life, however intricate and full it might be, consisted in reality of one moment: the moment when a man knows for all time who he is.

Know this: in some way you're already dead.

Gerçekte, uykudan uyan?p da kendi kendisiyle kar??laÅŸmayan insan yoktur.

Todo el mundo sabe dónde encontrar la poesía. Y, cuando aparece, uno siente el roce de la poesía, ese especial estremecimiento.

El tiempo está viviéndome. (Jactancia de quietud - Luna de enfrente)

Bir ÅŸeyi görebilmek için onu anlamak gerekir. Koltuk insan bedenini, eklemlerini ve tüm organlar?n? önceden kabullenir; makas da kesme eylemini. Bir lamba ya da bir ta??t için ne demeli? Bir vahÅŸi, misyonerin Ä°ncil'ini alg?layamaz; bir gemi yolcusu halatlar? tayfalar?n gördüÄŸü gibi göremez. Evreni gerçekten görebilmiÅŸ olsayd?k belki onu anlard?k.

And life is, I am sure, made of poetry. Poetry is not alien--poetry is, as we will see, lurking round the corner. It may spring on us at any moment.

Vivimos descubriendo y olvidando esa dulce costumbre de la noche. Hay que mirarla bien. Puede ser última. (Our life is spent discovering and forgetting that gentle habit of the night. Take a good look. It could be the last.)

Villari trataba de vivir el mero presente, sin recuerdos ni previsiones; los primeros le importaba menos que las últimas. Oscuramente creyó intuir que el pasado es la sustancia de que el tiempo está hecho; por ello es que este se vuelve pasado en seguida.

Perhaps in order to write a really great book, you must be rather unaware of the fact. You can slave away at it and change every adjective to some other adjective, but perhaps you can write better if you leave the mistakes.