Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?” — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind. — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
He has the lucidity which is the by-product of a fundamentally sterile mind. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“We live in an incredibly dynamic universe that gives us what we wish for, like a waking dream” — Cynthia Sue Larson Copy Share Image
The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Pierre Gagnaire Copy Share Image
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You who look at everything through your perpetually open eyes, is your lucidity never bathed in tears? — Michel Serres Copy Share Image
Good writing , like gold , combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Having seen how lucidly and logically certain madmen justify their lunatic ideas to themselves and to others, I can never again be… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sanity is the lot of those who are most obtuse, for lucidity destroys one's equilibrium: it is unhealthy to honestly endure the… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“No one seems to have thought of the fact that life is absurd, being a brilliant success has no greater value than… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
The beginning of art is not reason. It is the buried treasure of the unconscious...that unconscious which has more understanding than our… — Edgard Varese Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
Depressive lucidity, usually described as a radical withdrawal from ordinary human concerns, generally manifests itself by a profound indifference to things which… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually… — Conrad Black Copy Share Image
God is always present, always available. At whatever moment in which one turns to him the prayer is received, is heard, is… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
Properly understood, style is not a seductive decoration added to a functional structure; it is of the essence of a work of… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Perhaps things are most beautiful when they are not quite real; when you look upon a scene as an outsider, and come… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“You must become a free man so that you have “Sidik Paningal; Java” (lucidity and precision of sight). Later, you achieve the… — Emha Ainun Nadjib Copy Share Image
“In a brief moment of lucidity, I was sure that we'd all gone crazy. But then that moment of lucidity was displaced… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
“This moment of lucidity does not last long. But it serves as the punishment for your sins, a Promethean entrails-pecking moment, crouching… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I… — Comte de Lautréamont Copy Share Image
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.” — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
