Quotes About Clarity

We're slaves, not idiots. That's all you have to understand.

Yet I understood the poetry of such mind games one day when, attempting to ask for my glasses (lunettes), I was asked what I wanted to do with the moon (lune).

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

Language always betrays us, tells the truth when we want to lie, and dissolves into formlessness when we would most like to be precise.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.

I am much better at saying how I feel when I no longer feel it.

I don't know how to answer. I know what to think, but words in the head are like voices under water. They are distorted.

Don't mix your heart with your liver.

But, Mistress, do not be seen to stray too far from the real that is clear to others, or you may stand accused of the real that is clear to you.

I don't know which is worse: to be wrongfully accused or mistakenly understood.

calling things by their right names is more than giving them an identity bracelet or a label, or a serial number. We summon a vision. Naming is power.

What is 'no'? Either you have asked the wrong question or you have asked the wrong person. Find a way to get the 'yes'.

A precise emotion seeks a precise expression.

Why do humans need answers? Partly I suppose because without one, almost any one, the question itself soon sounds silly.

I had lines inside me-a string of guiding lights. I had language.

The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late.' I thought to myself, 'Too late for what?

I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water.

We were in Ireland. Was there ever a country so damp? I had to wring out my mind to think clearly. I was a morning mist of confusion.

It was a good time. To the pure all things are pure…

Stop thinking, she said. The more you think, the faster you cut your own throat.

I know how it is. Saying too much. Saying too little. Who says enough? Just enough? My closest conversations are bad translations. That's not what I meant--not what I meant at all.

Just because you can't tell what it is, doesn't mean it's not what it is.

Uncertainty to me was like Aardvaark to other people. A curious thing I had no notion of, but recongnised through secondhand illustrations.