Quotes About Clarity

Clarity confused me. I was far less forgiving and kind than the general state of disconnection in which I liked to live.

Sorry, is my new Djinn name Mushroom ? Because I don't like being kept in the dark and fed bullshit, David. Just so you know.

Stop lying by omission

You assumed that. And you know what they say, when you assume you make an ass out of…

Do not fall for things that feel right, and sound wrong. Understand?

Given the initial talent … writing is largely a matter of application and hard work, of writing and rewriting endlessly, until you are satisfied that you have said what you want to say as clearly and simply as possible. For me, that usually means many, many revisions.

I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that it's the truth. -Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

What do you want ? It was a hard question, especially if I had to bat en down the sarcasm. I mean, there was the beauty pageant answer of world peace, although I'd probably have to render it in the beauty pageant spelling of world peas.

If I'm just The Guy With Norah, that's cool. Right now, that's all I want to be. All the other things I am—they're too complicated. I can feel them lying in wait, planning their return.

My hands were starting to shake a little. Because I hadn't known that I knew these things. Just having a notebook to write them in, and having someone to write them to, made them all rise to the surface.

Because I don't want to," I said. "Not because of the way she is now—I know that's not what she's like. There was no way it was going to be as easy as the notebook. I get that now.

I think we should get married here, I say. It's so obvious. Naomi sits down on the top stair, the edge of our corner, and rests her head against the wall. Ely, she says, we're never getting married. Never.

Do I have clueless tattooed across my forehead? Narrowing my eyes,I leaned toward him. Yeah,I think maybe you do.

He'd not known what was happening to us in Lisbon, Constantina. The full truth of our situation hadn't been told of in England

Truth is so often disconcerting.

La claridad que la filosofía ofrece lleva a la superación serena de la ansiedad que carcome al hombre.

The dark makes the light stuff brighter.

You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again.

to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.

In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes.

Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world.

He held the sandwich in his right hand, a cigarette in his left, alternating between the two. When witness to this, I always hoped that in error he would take a bite of the cigarette or attempt to smoke the sandwich, but he never became confused.

War," Pax said, "either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths.

Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it.