Lucidity Quotes

“How very paltry and limited the normal human intellect is, and how little lucidity there is in the human consciousness, may be judged from the fact that, despite the ephemeral brevity of human life, the uncertainty of our existence and the countless enigmas which press upon us from all sides, everyone does not continually and ceaselessly philosophize, but that only the rarest of exceptions do.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

“There is eloquence in the tongueless
wind, and a melody in the flowing brooks and the rustling of the
reeds beside them, which by their inconceivable relation to something
within the soul, awaken the spirits to a dance of breathless
rapture, and bring tears of mysterious tenderness to the eyes, like
the enthusiasm of patriotic success, or the voice of one beloved
singing to you alone.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Dreams and imagination are guiding forces, shaping thoughts, feelings, and actions, while the lucidity of our minds keeps the vagaries of our dreams in balance. (“With a dream in the clear sky of her mind”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and reports to you these facts: (1) there is nothing to do; (2) there is nowhere to go; (3) there is nothing to be; (4) there is no one to know. Without meaning-charged emotions keeping your brain on the straight and narrow, you would lose your balance and fall into an abyss of lucidity. And for a conscious being, lucidity is a cocktail without ingredients, a crystal clear concoction that will leave you hung over with reality. In perfect knowledge there is only perfect nothingness, which is perfectly painful if what you want is meaning in your life.”
― Thomas Ligotti

“Yet the stupid believe they are awake, busily and brightly assuming they understand things, calling this man ruler, that one herdsman – how dense! Confucius and you are both dreaming! And when I say you are dreaming, I am dreaming, too. Words like these will be labeled the Supreme Swindle.”
― Zhuangzi

“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Life is a game and you are the player. As you master the game, so you also create it.”
― Jay Woodman

“Was this the triumph of self-knowledge: to suffer more lucidly?”
― Edward St. Aubyn, Dunbar

“You must become a free man so that you have “Sidik Paningal; Java” (lucidity and precision of sight). Later, you achieve the peak of detachment of sight (Ma’rifat), where you see something to the horizon with great clarity. Do not take another step before you are certain that the path you take is the right one. Failure is another matter; what matters is precision.”
― Emha Ainun Nadjib

“There is no stupidity religions have omitted to revere; and you know just as well as I, my friends, that when one examines a human institution, the first thing one must do is discard all religious notions. They are poison to lucidity.”
― Marquis de Sade, Juliette

“Some people are exceptionally clear eyed. To them, nothing is ever too complex or mysterious. Answers invisible to most are in plain sight to these enlightened few. Their approach to the world is elementary and, without fail, right. They see through false complications and find the simple truths of life. Mildred was blessed with this lucidity.”
― Hernan Diaz, Trust

“A man with clarity reaches his goal sooner than the man with confidence.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“I find myself nursing keen regret at probably not being able to live long enough to explain properly to you what I do not myself pretend to know. But since it has been proved that by an extraordinary chance I have not yet lost my life since that far-off time when, filled with terror, I began the preceding sentence, I mentally calculate that it will not be useless here to construct the complete avowal of my basic impotence, especially when it is a matter (as at present) of this imposing & inaccessible question. It is, generally speaking, a singular thing that the attractive tendency which induces us to seek out (in order to then express them) the resemblances & differences concealed in the natural properties of the most conflicting objects, & on the surface sometimes the least apt to lend themselves to this kind of sympathetically curious combination, which -upon my word -gracefully add to the style of the writer, who for personal satisfaction requites himself with the impossible & unforgettable appearance of an owl grave until eternity.”
― Comte de Lautréamont, Maldoror and the Complete Works

“It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.”
― Clarice Lispector

“No story should ever be considered as final, nor a rigid telling, but as a prompt to either investigate or meditate upon it. In other words, the story, provided it has at least some discernible depth, ought to be a medium, a prompt to one’s higher self to look beyond the naked narrative. Throughout the ages, until recently, the words story and history were interchangeable in meaning. Storial is now an obsolete word, but if something was, what you would call, historically accurate, then it was storial — not historical.

Stories and histories entangle. Stories can disentangle, and liberate.

This is one of the keys to conscious presence. One of the keys to lucidity.

Stories have that potential, they carry that power within them. Whether they are used to entangle, entertain, or disentangle, depends on the intent and the wisdom of the storyteller. This is an essential truth, valid for any story that has ever been told.
In choosing to let go of the stories which have entangled you into a lilliputian presence, you make room for the story which can not only dis-entangle, but expand your capacity as an individual, and bring you into the presence of ultimate realization. That is the might of the story.

Remember this. As you would take a key and place it in your pocket, take this information, fully aware and conscious of taking it, and save it.”
― Sabina Nore, Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh

“To write about him is to write about Greatness. To discuss him is to
discuss Intellectual Brilliance. To think of him is to think of Modesty,
Simplicity and Lucidity. To remember him is to remember Nationalism at
its finest hour. He was not one of those who merely achieved greatness
nor certainly one of those upon whom greatness was thrust-he was in
fact born great.”
― Munindra Misra, Pt. Kanhaiya Lal Misra - My Father

“I dreamed incredible dreams of the future; I said to myself that she should owe to me her moral and physical recovery, that I should spend my whole life with her, and that her love should make me happier than all the maidenly loves in the world.”
― Alexandre Dumas fils, La dame aux camélias

“Lucidity was a slippery thing and her hands were wet.”
― Raabe Gabriel

“Quote by Robert, a garçon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves—though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave.”
― Adam Gopnik, Paris to the Moon

“Eliminating all complications, all vexations. Without this protective obsession, no serenity. And without serenity, no lucidity.

To condemn torture as being in any case useless and unproductive is the most despicable of arguments. The implication is that if it were productive (in terms of information), it would be justified. The same with racism: to argue that there is no objective basis for racial differences is to imply that if there were such a basis, racism would be justified. Now, even if there were one, not only would it still be unjustified, but it is then that it would be absolutely unjustifiable.”
― Jean Baudrillard, Cool Memories V: 2000 - 2004

“It is a truly superb allegory, this story of the Golden Temple: the allegory of evil's revenge, of destruction as the only way out from beauty and the excess of beauty.
But not just beauty. Evil can also befall intelligence.
Intelligence protects us from nothing - not even from stupidity.
Being intelligent is not enough, then, to prevent one from being stupid, and sometimes intelligence even lives in stupidity's shade, and vice versa.
Not only does intelligence not mark the end of stupidity, there is no other way out from excess of intelligence but stupidity. In keeping with an implacable reversibility, stupidity lies in wait for it, as its shadow, as its double.
Only thought, only lucidity, which stands as much opposed to intelligence as to stupidity, can escape this trial of strength.
But there is no rule, no more for good than for evil: they chase each other endlessly around the Moebius strip.
Given the hellish production of collective intelligence, we shall have to reckon in the future with an ever-higher rate of artificial stupidity.”
― Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

“Only half-aware of the movements of his body, she turned her head to one side and stared up at the ceiling, where she noticed a spider's web.”
― Alifa Rifaat, Distant View of a Minaret and Other Stories

“People don’t want the truth, they want a version of morality that always puts them on the right side, even when they are wrong.”
― Marc Kandalaft

“There’s a strange clarity to it. A lucidity she’s never felt before. This is the end of daze.”
― Daniel Ruczko, Purgatory

“No story should ever be considered as final, nor a rigid telling, but as a prompt to either investigate or meditate upon it. In other words, the story, provided it has at least some discernible depth, ought to be a medium, a prompt to one’s higher self to look beyond the naked narrative. Throughout the ages, until recently, the words story and history were interchangeable in meaning. Storial is now an obsolete word, but if something was, what you would call, historically accurate, then it was storial — not historical.

Stories and histories entangle. Stories can disentangle, and liberate.

This is one of the keys to conscious presence. One of the keys to lucidity.

Stories have that potential, they carry that power within them. Whether they are used to entangle, entertain, or disentangle, depends on the intent and the wisdom of the storyteller. This is an essential truth, valid for any story that has ever been told.
In choosing to let go of the stories which have entangled you into a lilliputian presence, you make room for the story which can not only dis-entangle, but expand your capacity as an individual, and bring you into the presence of ultimate realization. That is the might of the story.

Remember this. As you would take a key and place it in your pocket, take this information, fully aware and conscious of taking it, and save it.”
― Sabina Nore, Weird Genius: The Story of Your Ankh

“Knowledge is eye candy”
― Eleno Carvalho

“In his moments of lucidity, which would later become increasingly rare and painful, he suggested an explanation of what was happening to him: “I am a guilty man. That is why I am being punished like Abuya's heretical sons, I gazed when I should not have gazed and turned my eyes away when I should not have. I saw a sin committed… a crime…I could have, I should have, done something, called out, shouted, struck a blow. I forgot our precepts, our laws, that require an individual to struggle against evil wherever it appears. I forgot that we can never simply remain spectators, we have no right to stand aside, to keep silent, to let the victim fight the aggressor alone. I forgot so many things that day…That is why I am forgetting other things now. Can there be anything worse than that?”

Yes, there was worse, there is worse: to forget that one has forgotten.”
― Elie Wiesel, The Forgotten

“To awaken is not to reject the dream. It is to become lucid within it, and know that we are not the story but the storyteller. Not the role but the actor. Not the wave but the ocean. And from that knowing, we live more fully, love more deeply, and create more freely.”
― Donna Goddard, Consciousness Rising

“Mother was down for one of the great battery of daily naps on which she had come to rely for a semblance of stability. Her most lucid moments seemed to occur when she first awoke and after that there were any number of cracks in the surface of her world through which to fall. There was no steering her toward solid ground; she stepped where she stepped.”
― Percival Everett, Erasure

“It is harder to stay lucid than to be enlightened.”
― Zeon Vale , The Call of the North – 42 Weeks and One Day