Quotes About Clarity

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

That was when he'd fully understood that neither of them had every understood the other. A marriage couldn't survive that sort of epiphany, and their had been over just a few weeks later.

Cuando expones la bulliciosa naturaleza del miedo a la clara luz de la serenidad, todos los miedos desaparecen en el acto.

As our hearts become pure, our vision becomes clearer.

My behavior makes perfect sense to me.

The daylight, he remembered, was a sort of medicine. Truly nothing was as acute or upsetting in the first light of day.

He was not a realist, and I wasn't either, and we both knew that the others in all their triteness were realists, stupid as puppets which touch their collars a thousand times without ever discovering the string they are dangling on.

This Soon is like a thunderclap. This little word is like the spark that sets off the thunderstorm, and suddenly, for the thousandth part of a second, the whole world is bright beneath this word.

Por felicidad, no alcanzo a entender nada que dure más de un segundo, puede que dos o tres como máximo.

I lacked the advice and guidance of experienced counsellors and so wasted many years before I realised that one must not pursue several aims at the same time.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

They had something, that generation, he thought. They didn't doubt themselves. They knew what life was, and where they belonged in it. Not like us.

He who laughs last didn't get it.

It is light that dismantles each moment, I had thought then. Light proves it one thing or another. Darkness does not judge.

It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.

I can see in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

To be blind is bad, but worse is to have eyes and not see.

The most pathetic person in the world is some one who has sight but no vision.

For one awful, long moment she is hanging head-downward, wings open, like a turkey in a butcher's shop, only her head is turned right-way-up and she is seeing more than she has ever seen before in her whole short life. Her world was an aviary no larger than a living room. Then it was a box. But now it is this; and she can see everything:

Consider this, and in our time As the hawk sees it, or the helmeted airman:

It struck me then that perhaps the bareness and wrongness of the world was an illusion; that things might still be real, and right, and beautiful, even if I could not see them - that if I stood in the right place, and was lucky this might somehow be revealed to me.

In a psychomantium glass topples darkness. Things appear as they really are, people appear as they really are. Visions are called from a point inside the mirror, from a point inside the mind.