Quotes About Truth

At least, Mother said, that's the story Aunt Esther tells. What do you mean? I asked. Isn't it true? Stories are never 'true', Mother said. But they may, almost by accident, contain 'truth'. Sometimes.

P.J. said, That's true about any statement we make, isn't it? We never tell as much as we know. Right! So We're lying. So almost every statement is a lie, we can't help it. Yeah. But some statements are more lies than others.

I believe in uttering the truth, even if it hurts. Particularly if it hurts.

The fundamental truth of my life whether in fact it was truth or a burlesque of truth: when a man wants you, you're safe.

Bullshit! Li-ar! Your mother and father are dead like everybody else. Everybody is dead.

For once a truth is known it cannot be unknown, it can only be denied.

When there is no longer any point in lying, no one will lie

Secrets have always been easy for me, it's the opposite of secrets that is hard.

Loving Felix she'd acquired from him a certain arrogance, telling so many lies she'd acquired a zest for lies and quite preferred them to the truth. For a lie had to be invented, "truth" was common property.

Why I came to have such quarrels with my mother, to hate and wish dead my mother, I don't know. There was hardly anything she ever told me didn't turn out to be true.

Lionel turned his thoughts eagerly inward, to discover that inward was perilous, too; his soul was a sort of curved reflective surface that distorts, as in a funhouse mirror, the face of one peering into it. You might be anyone, any face. The face is mere skin. Accident. He seemed at such times to be approaching a profound yet unspeakable truth: that our identities are accidents.

You learned how if a thing is not spoken of, even those closest to you, who love you, will assume that it doesn't exist.

There is no religion higher than truth.

Gossip - invented to injure feelings rather than illuminate the truth.

All that crap was like living your life with your face pressed up close against a mirror, you couldn't see your own face let alone anything surrounding it.

It had well be a dream, no one would believe me anyway.

For it has been revealed to me as a fact, that where the dull-essential nature of our lives is eliminated, such as age, identity, education, employment, place of residence, family ties, daily routine, etc., the thrilling-essential is revealed.

Você pode fingir ser quase tudo que não é, há pouquíssimas coisas que de fato se pode ser.

A life consists of many facts, implacable facts, you do not want to know.

If some men supposed themselves free it was only because they did not understand that they were imprisoned—bars could be made of any shadowy substance, any dreamy loss of light.

You do know, don't you, Allen, that God is a bookseller? He publishes one book-the text of suffering - over and over again. He disguises it between new boards, in different shapes and sizes, prints on varying papers, in many fonts, adds prefaces and postscripts to deceive the buyer, but it's always the same book.

Truth must evolve'—how very convenient for liars.

the poor child there for hours (for he had the reptilian patience of an adult to whom time possesses no value except in proportion to what it might reveal, what meager nugget of truth it might suddenly cast up)

Es curioso, siempre sabes más de lo que dices. Quiero decir, cualquier persona. Lo que dices siempre es menos de lo que sabes.