Quotes About Truth

It's important for me to live my life honestly.

Life is pain...anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something

That which one cannot experience in daily life is not true for oneself.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.

. . . life is sometimes life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to distinguish t'other from which . . .

Once I opened my eyes to the realities of life, I couldn't close them.

The idea that reincarnation means all beings eventually reach enlightenment is not true. Life does not have a fixed purpose. It just is.

. . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it.

False life is exhausting; Real Life is inexhaustible.

I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

A true life is at once interpreter and proof of the gospel.

Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.

As Socrates I believe said the unexamined life is not worth living. I believe that's true. I do believe that.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.

We need to live the life that we say we believe in.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.

The sages say that life is illusion, but does that change its poignancy?

As a writer, I am constantly aware that I take my life in my hands with everything I do and say. It's just a fact of life. For me it always has been.

It's good to stay as close to real life as you can, and then kind of dress it up.

The world and life's too big to pass for a dream