Quotes About Lucidity

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control,His sad lucidity of soul.

La traditionnelle lucidité des dépressifs, souvent décrite comme un désinvestissement radical à l'égard des préoccupations humaines, se manifeste en tout premier lieu par un manque d'intérêt pour les questions effectivement peu intéressantes. Ainsi peut-on, à la rigueur, imaginer un dépressif amoureux, tandis qu'un dépressif patriote paraît franchement inconcevable.

La tradicional lucidez de los depresivos, descrita a menudo como un desinterés radical por las preocupaciones humanas, se manifiesta ante todo como una falta de implicación en los asuntos que realmente son poco interesantes. De hecho, es posible imaginar a un depresivo enamorado, pero un depresivo patriota resulta inconcebible

I ara torna la lúcida tristesa, una mirada fonda i vehement que no vulnera límits i reposa en qualsevol objecte.

During dementia's end-game, a person goes to a place where we cannot follow them and can barely guess at. The bursts of lucidity that those with catastrophic memory loss can sometimes have are like bright, sharp flashes of lightning over a blasted landscape.

To live with lucidity a simple, quiet, discreet life among intelligent books, loving a few beings.

The only indices of civilization are the clarity, lucidity, order, good manners of everyday prose.

Yet obscurely I saw that the ultimate cosmos was nevertheless lovely, and perfectly formed; and that every frustration and agony within it, however cruel to the sufferer, issued finally, without any miscarriage, in the enhanced lucidity of the cosmical spirit itself. In this sense at least no individual tragedy was in vain.

Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity.… And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity.

that we are not surprised to find John Paul II mentioning euthanasia and the last instants of life and praising "the person who voluntarily accepts suffering and forgoes treatment to reduce pain in order to retain all his lucidity and, if he is a believer, to take part in the Lord's Passion," even if–and the concession is important–such "heroic" behavior "cannot be considered a duty for everyone.