Quotes About Clarity

Snowflakes of ash fell so lovelily you were tempted to stretch out your tongue to catch them, taste them. Only, they would have scorched your lips. They would have cooked your mouth. Clearly

I'm spoiling the ending, not only of the entire book, but of this particular piece of it. I have given you two events in advance, because I don't have much interest in building mystery. Mystery bores me. It chores me. I know what happens and so do you. It's the machinations that wheel us there that aggravate, perplex, interest, and astound me.

They walked on in silence for a while, until Rudy said, "I just wish I was like Jesse Owens, Papa." This time, Mr. Steiner placed his hand on Rudy's head and explained, "I know, son—but you've got beautiful blond hair and big, safe blue eyes. You should be happy with that; is that clear?" But nothing was clear.

è impeccabile il modo in cui la verità può essere brutale, a volte. Non si può che ammirarla. Di solito ce ne andiamo in giro tentando di convincere noi stessi: sto bene, diciamo. è tutto ok. Ma a volte la verità ti piomba addosso, e non puoi liberartene. è in quei momenti che ti rendi conto che talvolta non è nemmeno una risposta...ma una domanda.

And why?' He pauses. 'I did it because you are the epitome of ordinariness, Ed. And if a guy like you can stand up and do what you did, then maybe everyone can. Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.' And that's when I realize, in a sweet cruel beautiful moment of clarity. I smile, watch a crack in the cement, and speak Audrey and the Doorman. I tell them what I'm telling you now: I'm not the messenger at all, I'm the message.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere.

Usually, if an idea keeps calling you back, it's the right one

Rather than being love-blinded, it is in love that I can see, really see.

Nothing squandered, nothing cloaked.

The dream didn't leave, people just don't know a nightmare when they right in the middle of one.

It's easier to find out who someone isn't than who they are

Solemos pensar mejor y relacionarnos de forma más eficaz unos con otros cuando tomamos cierta distancia de lo cotidiano, que es donde es más probable que estén centrados nuestros temores y deseos más inmediatos.

I am bewildering you a little. Just enough to help you forget what you came to believe, so that you can remember what you've always known.

it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth.

Fully occupied by the process of achieving innumerable goals, we lose the ability to determine which goals really matter, and why.

You've been looking for reasons instead of peace.

How many times have I asked myself: when is the world going to start making sense? Yet the answer is out there. It is rushing towards me over the uneven ground.

Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more than the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.

he never knows what he's saying. He says everything, so he has to be right some of the time.

Eight years ago, I wouldn't have painted this subject I'm starting now: a clearing filled with grasses. It would have seemed too much of a jumble. I had to keep looking and drawing, and looking. Now, because of all that time I spent drawing these grasses, I know what I'm looking for.

In the midst of beings as a whole an open place occurs. There is a clearing, a lighting... Only this clearing grants and guarantees to us humans a passage to those beings that we ourselves are not, and access to the being that we ourselves are.

Speaking a lot about something does not in the least guarantee that understanding is thus furthered. On the contrary, talking at great length about something covers things over and brings what is understood into an illusory clarity, that is, the unintelligibility of the trivial. But to keep silent does not mean to be mute ... one who is mute still has the tendency to speak. ... Authentic silence is possible only in genuine discourse. In order to be silent, Dasein must have something to say.

El tiempo deberá ser sacado a la luz y deberá ser concebido genuinamente como el horizonte de toda comprensión del ser y de todo modo de interpretarlo (pag. 28)

Ma in qualche modo io so che le stelle si possono vedere soltanto se è abbastanza buio