Quotes About Clarity

She found what she had been searching for.

Imagine a society in which every speech in the Congressional Record, every television commercial, every sermon had an accompanying error bar or its equivalent.

I've written some poetry I don't understand myself

Of coherency, I usually attempt it.

One man has one great true thing in his life. One great good thing that is true!

Honey, you're not operating on the realistic level anymore than I am.

There is none so blind as he who will not see.

Everybody has one thing they keep, one thing that matters to them more than anything else. Life is just a process of elimination, figuring out what that one thing is. You may figure it out right at the end, just as you're losing it. If you're lucky.

Either you believed in something or you didn't—you couldn't have it both ways and be honest with yourself.

All those men had died for some senseless reason, died perhaps without ever knowing exactly what they had fought to accomplish.

Hindsight should have lent clarity to his actions; it did not. Rather, he felt a lingering sense of confusion. Everything seemed to jumble together in his mind--all the disparate incomplete reasoning, all the emotions that intertwined and colored. They would not sort themselves out for him; they would not arrange themselves in a neat orderly fashion. They merely shuffled about like stray sheep and he chased after them hopelessly.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forger that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.

but when you're dying you don't have much time for common sense.

You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is as plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are mostly inside yourselves. He paused anew. Cats are not included in that analysis. Cats don't waste time wondering about such things. Cats just get on with the business of living.

Past, present, and future, the symbiosis of our lives, the old man continued quietly, gently. Our birth, our life, our death, all tied into a single package that we spend our time on this earth unwrapping. Sometimes we see clearly what it is we are looking at. Sometimes we do not. Sometimes things happen to distract or deceive us, and we must look more carefully at what it is we hold.

Keep talking, and you'll eventually sound like a complete idiot instead of just a half-wit.

Am I missing something? Everything. But I find no fault in you for that. Why should you see so clearly in a matter of minutes what I have lived with for years? It will not be easy for you now or later. It will never be easy. But it will be important. It will matter.

always know what that reason is.

When we are told to live in the moment, perhaps it is because that is where we know ourselves best. Before long, we find ourselves standing on the rim of a deeply forested valley that stretches away in front of us for several miles in three directions.

It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth.

Emotion did not play a part in truth, only reality did.

The truth has value.

If our love's tragedy, why are you my remedy? If our love's insanity, why are you my clarity?

Of all the people who came before us, Magda, you were the only one who represented truth. I want you to know that. - Councilman Sadler