Quotes About Awareness

Sitting with Ronan on the couch I often thought 'How can I make this moment more precious? and then I'd realize with a sense of panic that no additional meaning needed to be sought or found. This was all there was. 'But still', I would think, 'What if I can't remember the way his hands feel, his hair. What if I forget how he smells? The sound of his laugh? The shape of his two front teeth?' Time was both too contracted and forever seeming.

If you are the only one afraid...you are the only one with sense

Loneliness is like a set of binoculars that's trained on the social world. This has actually been proven. Psychologists have long theorized that, when the need to belong is unmet, people automatically start to pay more attention to the social world around them. "It's like when you're hungry, and you notice all the food signs on the highway," says Gardner. "When you've been left out, or when you feel unconnected, you notice social cues.

Love/absence of mind - they're easily confused.

When I was four I thought everything in TV was just TV, then I was five and Ma unlied about lots of it being pictures of real and Outside being totally real. Now I'm in Outside but it turns out lots of it isn't real at all.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.

I bang my head on a faucet. "Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt?

In Room me and Ma had time for everything. I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit....

People have no idea of the things that don't happen to them—the lives they're not living, the deaths stalking them—and thank Christ for that. Hard enough to get through each day without glimpsing all the hovering possibilities, like insects thickening the air.

Who knows what we all are before anything happens?

You and I are lucky, Nurse Power. I frowned. Lucky? To be alive and well, you mean? To be here, in the middle of this. We'll never learn more or faster.

Careful." Why do persons only say that after the hurt? Grandma

I'm beginning to know enough to know that I know nothing.

She was with Jude so rarely that when she was, every cell of her body rang with grateful knowledge of it.

No sabía que las cosas pudieran estar vivas a medias. Aunque tampoco sabía que los retratos tuvieran vida dentro.

The watch has altered the situation that's being watched.

They used to draw a skull at the bottom of a tankard, so when you'd drained it you'd be reminded you were going to die someday.

As far as I could tell, the whole world was a machine grinding to a halt. Across the globe, in hundreds of languages, signs were going up urging people to cover their coughs.

Well so long as you're awake, does it matter how you were woken?

And if you don't know who you are, or if your real self has drifted away from you with the undertow, madness at least gives you an identity.

How is the ordinary man to know that the most violent element in society is ignorance

A nadie se le obliga a morir más imbécil que cuando nació.

The art of life is to live in the present moment and to make that moment as perfect as we can by the realization that we are the instruments and expression of God himself.

The root of all difficulties is a lack of the sense of the Presence of God.