Search for Clarity Quotes

In my long experience, one thing I know is that truth is elusive.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

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.

I've always been in this sort of perpetual state of existential longing. I feel like something's missing.

Sometimes I think my whole professional life has been based on this hunch I had, early on, that many people feel just as muddled as I do, and might be happy to tag along with me on this search for clarity, for precision. I love that aspect of writing. Nothing makes me happier than to hear a reader say: that’s just what I’ve always felt, but you said it clearly.

'The Names' is a story about a woman who might feel that she's in a kind of maze. She's unable to find her way forward or out because she can't see the whole picture.

My plays tend to be peopled with outsiders in search of clarity.

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

It takes a long time to understand nothing.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Truth is a hard deer to hunt. If you eat too much truth at once, you may die of the truth.

Memory as an article of faith often comes naturally to writers, who by temperament are likely to be diarists and record keepers, forever searching past events for elusive patterns - and forever believing that such patterns are to be found.

Now you watch the parades and processions of hopeful and despairing people walking outside your tomb. They are all looking for the answer to the problem you know so well.

Truth is splintered.

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

I'm always searching. It's the reason I'm here. It's not really about music: it's about searching for meaning.

Most of what one feels compelled to write stems from a deep emotional uncertainty.

I think all the characters in 'American Horror Story,' which is why I love it, are looking for some sense of meaning, and also it's their form of happiness.