Orson Scott Card Quotes on Awareness
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Who is more cursed, the one who dies, unknowing until the very moment of his death or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?
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Either she was a perfect actress or she was oblivious.
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Damn, but they've got us brainwashed, haven't they!
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do
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In their ignorance, they were happy
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They didn't have to believe in you. They didn't have to choose to die. But they didn't know that's what they was choosing They knew. We always know. We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all the life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death
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But she could see that she had wounded him. He had been stupid, but he was smart enough to recognize the fact
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To be cut off from the land of the living, and yet not to be dead. How could I bear that? That's how most men live, and don't even know it
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I was the last to know what was happening to me. Or at least I was the last to know that I knew
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Unfree as the world was. They didn't really know it, and they were at peace. Who was I to think that this peace was worse than war?
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His eyes stayed open. Seeing nothing. Seeing everything