Quotes About Clarity

Much of our life is spent wishing others understood us better than they do.

It is my task always to know, particularly when I don't.

I suspect Cromwell was right: the man who does not know where he's going goes farthest.

no similes. Nothing is like anything else. Things are themselves entirely and do not need interpretation, only a minimal respect for their precise integrity.

You only lose what you cling to.

In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey.

It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [...] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there.

how twisted we humans are, and yet they say a god made us; but I find it hard to conceive of any god wo is not as simple as a perfect equation, as clear as the air.

There I go again. I want. I don't want. If I could love You, I could love Henry. God was made man. He was Henry with his astigmatism, Richard with his spots, not only Maurice. If I could love a leper's sores, couldn't I love the boringness of Henry? But I'd turn from the leper if he were here, I suppose, as I shut myself away from Henry. I want the dramatic always. I imagine I'm ready for the pain of your nails... Dear God, I'm no use. I'm still the same bitch and fake. Clear me out of the way.

Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.

In the vision there is no morality

Father Quixote thought: How many times I have felt guilty as he does without knowing why. Sometimes he envied the certitude of those who were able to lay down clear rules--Father Heribert Jone, his bishop, even the Pope. Himself, he lived in a mist, unable to see a path, stumbling.

la simple y humilde diferencia entre lo apropiado y lo inapropiado en un momento concreto.

Too many books by too many authors can be confusing

When the future remains so unclear, why does the past so often intrude? Because it is all that is definite.

Why are the Fens flat? So God has a clear view...

When something's one thing, it's not another.

Reality's not strange, not unexpected.Reality doesn't reside in the hallucination of events. Reality is uneventfulness, vacancy, flatness. Reality is that nothing happens.

I taught you that by forever attempting to explain we may come, not to an Explanation, but to a knowledge of the limits of our power to explain.

You always knew what you wanted to be didn't you? He asked Edward. More or less. Smart moves, a gynecologist. Never false moves. I was different, I had goals but no direction. Like a map without roads, just places to be.

Truth is a hunter. Truth is what kills you when you give up the lies.

It is in that moment, when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you'll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

I don't know means NO! I don't know means I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation. I don't know means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.

We have become a sloppy bunch of people. We say things we don't mean. We make promises we don't keep.