Quotes About Truth

Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in innovation, take something real like this fair, and make it something larger than life.

I've become to realize there's a world of difference between knowing something happened, even knowing why it happened, and believing it.

The truths of life are not discovered by us. At moments unforeseen, some gracious influence descends upon the soul, touching it to an emotion which, we know not how, the mind transmutes into thought.

Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

The true confessors have been aware that not only is life mostly failure, but that in one's failure or pettiness or wrongness exists the living drama of the self.

I believe in North, South, East, West, The seasons, life and death, geography. That which is provable, absolute and most of all, functional. I believe in things that can kill me.

We must look at our life without sentimentality, exaggeration or idealism. Does what we are choosing reflect what we most deeply value?

Plain intellectual thinking is the peak of ignorance because all that you will know is to play with a few aspects and make others look like fools.

It's hard to give a dramatic shape to even the most dramatic life. . . . you are forced not just into selectivity, but into alteration, distortion and outright lying about what did and didn't happen.

Young girls are the chatelaines of truth; they must see that it is protected, that the guilty lead the life of the guilty, even if the world rocks on its foundations.

Memoir is about handing over you life to someone and saying, This is what I went through, this is who I am, and maybe you can learn something from it.

My life is pretty much an open book.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

After all, life is not a Hindi movie.

I would say that 99 per cent of what my father has written about his own life is false.

don't argue what you don't believe in. Rule number one, in law and in life.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

Writers ever since writing began have had problems, and the main problem narrows down to just one word - life.

The true guide of life is to do what is right.

We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it.

Everyone's got a different story.