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Quotes About Truth

We're not suspicious enough of words, and calamity strikes. Certain
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You have to choose: death or lies.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Ero un bambino allora, mi faceva paura la prigione. È che non conoscevo ancora gli uomini. Non crederò più a quello che dicono, a quello che pensano. È degli uomini e di loro soltanto che bisogna aver paura, sempre.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
No volveré a creer nunca en lo que dicen, lo que piensan. De los hombres, y de ellos sólo, es de quien hay que tener miedo, siempre.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Malo je bi?a kojima posle dvadeset godina ostane nešto od spontane nežnosti kao u životinja. Svet nije ono što smo mislili da je! To je sve! I zato menjamo lik! I te kako! Prevareni smo! I postaneš gad dok si rekao britva! Eto šta mi nosimo na licu pošto prevalimo dvadesetu. Grešku! Lice nam je sušta greška!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Ya no nos queda demasiada música dentro para hacer bailar a la vida: ahí esta. Toda la juventud ha ido a morir al fin del mundo en el silencio de la verdad. ¿Y adónde ir, fuera, decidme, cuando no llevas contigo la suma suficiente de delirio? La verdad es una agonía ya interminable. La verdad de este mundo es la muerte. Hay que escoger: morir o mentir. Yo nunca me he podido matar.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Truth is inedible. Nowadays
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Nu zijn we dan aan het eind van twintig eeuwen hoge beschaving beland en toch zou geen enkel politiek stelsel twee maanden waarheid overleven. Hieronder versta ik zowel de marxistische als onze burgerlijke en fascistische maatschappij.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Plus de mystère, plus de niaiserie, on a bouffé toute sa poésie puisqu'on a vécu jusque-là. Des haricots, la vie.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mania for telling lies and believing them is as contagious as the itch.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Tutto quello che è interessante accade nell'ombra, davvero. Non si sa nulla della vera storia degli uomini.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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~ Lous-Ferdinand Céline
To achieve the essence of real externality, whether of time or space or dimension, one must forget that such things as organic life, good and evil, love and hate, and all such local attributes of a negliglible and temporary race called mankind, have any existance at all.
~ Lovecraft Howard Phillips
I've learned the hard way," she said, holding Jonathan's letter, "that people aren't always what they seem to be at first." "But sometimes they are," Sam said.
~ Luanne Rice
She loves you, Mom," Caroline said, telling the truth. "I know, dear. But I wish I'd done more earlier. That I hadn't missed my chance." The words hung in the air, reminding Caroline of the failures of love. People tried so hard, but they often missed the most important connections.
~ Luanne Rice
but I'll be honest was an indication of guilt, right up there with ly words.
~ Luanne Rice
Thomas felt his breath coming easier than it had in two months, and not for the first time he wondered why people make it so hard to talk to the people they love. They imagine the worst, they set up obstacles to prevent the truth from coming out. But in the end, when they finally muddle through, they find relief.
~ Luanne Rice
You're being naive," her mother said. "You'd rather believe in a cursed painting than see the truth. Your boyfriend killed his wife.
~ Luanne Rice
My mother reads the Bible every morning," Dianne said. "She's told me a million times: 'Man sees the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart.' From Samuel.
~ Luanne Rice
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
~ Lucian Freud
There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so.
~ Lucian Freud