Quotes About Awareness

Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees.

Oh! dreadful is the check—intense the agony— When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.

Entérate de que me consta que me has tratado horriblemente, ¿te enteras?, horriblemente. Si te figuras que no lo sé, eres una necia, y si te imaginas que me consuelas con palabras dulces, eres una idiota, y si piensas que no me tomaré venganza de ello, pronto te convencerás de lo contrario.

I want you to be aware that I know you have treated me infernally! And, if you flatter yourself that I don't perceive it you are a fool - and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words you are an idiot - and if you fancy I'll suffer unrevenged, I'll convince you of the contrary, in a very little while!

A cada momento necesito recordarme a mí mismo que he de respirar, que ha de seguir palpitándome el corazón...!

It is hard to remember just when you first became aware of being alive. It is like looking through rain onto a bald, new lawn; as you watch, the brown is all pricked with pale green. You did not see the points pierce, did not hear the stab - there they are!

For one moment the morning took you far out into vague chill, but your body snatched you back into its cosiness, back to the waiting dogs on the hill top. They could not follow out there, their world was walled, their noses trailed the earth. What a dog cannot hear or smell he distrusts; unless objects are close or move he does not observe them. His nature is to confirm what he sees by his sense of sound or of smell.

I had changed my perspective by seeing what I wasn't supposed to see.

We examine our sense of reality, of memory, and we must conclude that it is flawed.

How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?

The Truth must dazzle gradually or every man be blind.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

I see thee better in the dark I do not need a light.

The only Commandment I ever obeyed — 'Consider the Lilies.

You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer, because the winds would find it out and tell your cedar floor.

The soul should always stand ajar.

My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun - In Corners - till a Day The Owner passed - identified - And carried Me away -

A Bird came down the Walk – He did not know I saw – He bit an Angleworm in halves And ate the fellow, raw, And then he drank a Dew From a convenient Grass – And then hopped sidewise to the Wall To let a Beetle pass – ...

There are depths in every Consciousness, from which we cannot rescue ourselves - to which none can go with us.

Forever is composed of nows. Das 'Für immer' besteht aus vielen 'jetzt'.

Since then 'tis centuries, and yet each Feels shorter than the day I first surmised the horses' heads Were toward eternity.

Perception of an object costs Precise the Object's loss—

To pity those that know her not Is helped by the regret That those who know her, know her less The nearer her they get.

I know that He exists. Somewhere – in silence – He has hid his rare life From our gross eyes.