Charlie Kaufman Quotes

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Nobody ever sees truth except in fragments.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

The facts are always less than what really happened.

Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth, or the complete truth so far as we know it. In fact, everything we know is only some kind of approximation because we know that we do not know all the laws as yet.

The truth is not a bidimensional thing; it's not flat. It's rounded; it's like a sphere, so there's always a hidden face. There's one that is revealed because there's light reflecting on it, but there's always a hidden one, and once you go around to see the hidden one, it moves, and that's life.

I don't think I could tell the whole truth about anything. That's a pretty heavy burden, because we all just view the world through this little piece of coke bottle.

Behind the corpse in the reservoir, behind the ghost on the links, Behind the lady who dances and the man who madly drinks, Under the look of fatigue, the attack of migraine and the sigh There is always another story, there is more than meets the eye.

So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.

What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete

... the besetting danger is not so much of embracing falsehood for truth, as of mistaking a part of the truth for the whole.

it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.

I think people will become more and more aware that we are all more than we seem.

It was as if I had worked for years on the wrong side of a tapestry, learning accurately all its lines and figures, yet always missing its color and sheen.

You road I enter upon and look around, I believe you are not all that is here, I believe much unseen is also here

Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong.

Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.

I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in.

It turned out that some crooked things looked even worse when straightened. Some tangled knots only made sense once unraveled.

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

The concept, the label, is perpetually hiding from us all the nature of the real.

There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute.

What we experience is our own concept of things. That is why no two people see quite the same world, and why, in many cases, different people see such different worlds. To put it another way, we make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.