Quotes About Clarity

People live with blinders too; but ours are invisible, and much more sophisticated. Most of the time we don't even know they're there. Maybe we need them, though, because if we took in everything all at once, we'd lose our minds. Or worse, our souls. We'd see, we'd hear

Sometimes finding the obvious means coming in with no expectations.

Almost all our evils arise from being unable to stay in our rooms," said another sage, Pascal. ("Yan?lm?yorsam Pascal, 'neredeyse tüm mutsuzluklar?m?z odam?zda kalmay? bilememiÅŸ olmam?zdan geliyor ba??m?za' der")

Comme de longs échos qui de loin se confondent / Dans une ténébreuse et profonde unité, / Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarté, / Les parfums, les couleurs et les sons se répondent.

Il caos intero piombò in quell'intelligenza (tout le chaos ruola dans cette intelligence)

you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

I've had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can't quite make out what it is. It takes time.

The less I needed, the better I felt.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

I see a bright portion under the overhead light that shades into darkness and then into darker darkness and I can't see beyond that.

Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.

nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. The best interpreter of the dream is the dreamer.

I knew exactly what I was doing: I was doing nothing. because I knew there was nothing to do.

We use such big words to move nowhere.

There was something about funerals. It made you see things better.

The secret is writing down one simple line after another.