Quotes About Clarity

Tal vez las rutinas nos cieguen y sólo veamos lo que creemos que debemos ver.

Por eso sus obras policiacas (setenta y nueve novelas, diecinueve piezas de teatro) son mundos circulares perfectamente explicables, juegos matemáticos para alivio no sólo de la cabeza sino del corazón, universos previsibles en donde el bien y el mal ocupan lugares prefijados.

Es excelente ser viejo. Es la mejor edad, es la época en que el entendimiento ve con más claridad.»

Qui plus est, le bonheur est minimaliste. Il est simple et dépouillé. C'est un presque rien qui fait tout.

Además, la #Felicidad es minimalista. Es sencilla y desnuda.

Nadie puede decir si habríamos insistido, dada la pobreza de nuestros medios de investigación, si hubiésemos conocido la verdadera proporción de lo que estábamos buscando»

Carson McCullers llamaba iluminaciones a esos espasmos premonitorios de aquello que aún no sabes, pero que ya se agolpa en los bordes de tu conciencia.

the sound of her laughter brought back, with a piercing clarity, ringing across the years, the memory of other laughter, and the unexpected ecstasies and physical joys that happen, perhaps, only once in any person's lifetime.

I can't deal with hidden undertows or unspoken feelings.

black-and-white, so it was no

He appears to Paul like an old man, choking up with half-remembered things, as though there were a great struggle going on inside him to find, in among all that was half-remembered, those moments which had been absolute and true.

He couldn't deceive himself. He always looked things in the eye and never pretended that what he saw was not really happening.

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer. — Rhett

Never ask a question if you don't know the answer.

And as we get older, our lenses get more and more narrow and blurrier until we only see our own tiny pin-point view; this limited vision eventually makes bigots of us all. This is why so many marriages fall apart. You meet someone, think that you know them, marry them and then ten years later you divorce them because they turned out not to be who you thought they were. They never were.

I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things, and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it.

I think most of the things we call evil are not evil at all; it is just that we don't understand those things and so we call them evil. And we fear evil only because we do not understand it. - Gabriel Marez

If you can think–and not make thoughts your aim.

It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it.

and with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads were meant to be walked upon, houses to be lived in, cattle to be driven, fields to be tilled, and men and women to be talked to. They were all real and true—solidly

There is no sin as great as ignorance. Remember this.

The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something and what it saw in a plain way. To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion--all in one.

Mourning can be very selfish. When someone you love has died, you tend to recall best those few moments and incidents that helped clarify your sense, not of the person who has died, but of your own self.

By this evening," he declared, "we will all know who we are and what we're doing here!