Quotes About Authenticity

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

I hate nothing more than sugary photographs with tricks, poses and effects. So allow me to be honest ?and tell the truth about our age and its people.

When a poem doesn't work, the first question to ask yourself is, 'Am I telling the truth?'

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That's Acting 101.

You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.

All we can do is go around telling the truth.

A sweet lie is more gracious for us than a virulent but real truth.

Hear the truth from whomever says it

You can only push the truth down for so long, and then it bubbles back up.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

I don't think that we necessarily lie. I mean, we make our living by pretending that we're someone else. I don't tell tall tales. I always tell the truth.

Truth is, I cut my hair for freedom, not for beauty.

The truth will always have a market.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

The truth can be spoken only by someone who is already at home in it; not by someone who still lives in untruthfulness, and does no more than reach out towards it from within untruthfulness.

The truth is the only thing worth having, and, in a civilized life, like ours, where so many risks are removed, facing it is almost the only courageous thing left to do.

I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

Truth doesn't run on time like a commuter train.

Truth cannot be structured or confined.

Truth is not a mystery - its greatest secrets are yours to know through simple honesty and surrender to what that honesty reveals.

Forcing yourself to think happy lies doesn't heal your dreams. Getting to the truth does.

Never traffic in unpracticed truth.