Quotes About Clarity

Have the courage to say what needs to be said to who it needs to be said to. You'll both be better for it.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

When someone asks, 'Why do you think he's not calling me?' there's always one answer - 'He's not interested.' There's not ever any other answer.

When it comes to dating, Im straightforward and traditional with a twist.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

Things are simple when you're going to die.

If I could have just one more wish, I'd wipe the cobwebs from my eyes.

If you don't stick to simplicity, you'll die a horrible death.

A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.

Death to all modifiers, he declared one day, and out of every letter that passed through his hands went every adverb and every adjective.

Well," I said, "after years and years of painting ourselves opaque, this carries us straight back to when we were sure we were transparent." "Is that it?" "Maybe. Who knows.

A ses yeux, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de bonté était bon, celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs de loyauté était loyal. Celui qui donnait des signes extérieurs d'intelligence, intelligent. C'est ainsi qu'il n'avait jamais vu clair en sa fille, ni en sa femme, ni en sa seule et unique maîtresse – il était sans doute loin de voir clair en lui...

No guile. No artifice. No mischief. All that he had eliminated to achieve his perfection. No striving, no ambivalence, no doubleness—just the style, the natural physical refinement of a star.

Around three A.M., I left my bed and went to my desk, my head vibrant with the static of unelaborated thought.

You're somebody who has banished all superfluous sentiments from his life. No asinine longings to be home again. No patience for the nonessential. Only time for what's indispensable.

If there was ever anything to know, now he knew he never had known it.