Quentin Crisp Quotes

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation.

I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.

If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

I often see through things right to the apparition itself.

For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

I like to open people's eyes.

Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.

The great discoveries are usually obvious.

Suddenly a mist fell from my eyes and I knew the way I had to take.

Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.

All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

I think the purpose of the writer is to help us see. The writer is someone who can perhaps have the joy of helping others see.

Light is the symbol of truth.

To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.

It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I think I am seeing more clearly now than ever.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.