Quotes About Truth

Lies are better than tranquilizers.

Finally, I spoke of the necessity of recounting frankly every human experience, including, I said emphatically, what seems unsayable and what we do not speak of even to ourselves.

To tolerate existence, we lie, and we lie above all to ourselves. Sometimes we tell ourselves lovely tales, sometimes petty lies. Falsehoods protect us, mitigate suffering, allow us to avoid the terrifying moment of serious reflection, they dilute the horrors of our time, they even save us from ourselves.

Thus the story of the facts has to reckon with filters, deferments, partial truths, half lies: from it comes an arduous measurement of time passed that is based completely on the unreliable measuring device of words.

Maybe I should tell her that things without a meaning are the most beautiful ones

I'm lying, yes, but why do you force me to give a linear explanation; linear explanations are almost always lies.

it's good to be afraid. You need to be afraid even when there's no need, it keeps you alert. The bond with known spaces, with secure affections, yielded to curiosity about what might happen. Lies, lies, adults forbid them and yet they tell so many.

Esistere è questo, pensai, un sussulto di gioia, una fitta di dolore, un piacere intenso, vene che pulsano sotto la pelle, non c'è nient'altro di vero da raccontare.

Childhood is a tissue of lies that endure in the past tense

Ognuno si racconta la vita come gli fa comodo.

Nelle favole si fa come si vuole e nella realtà si fa come si può.

I'm never going to fall in love with anyone and I will never ever ever write a poem.' 'I don't believe it.' 'It's true.' 'But people will fall in love with you.' 'Worse for them.

But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than me that it's all a fraud and one thing follows another and then another.

Mi ero accorta da tempo che ognuno si organizza la memoria come gli conviene, tuttora mi sorprendo a farlo anch'io

the disgusting face of things alone was not enough for writing a novel: without imagination it would seem not a true face but a mask.

Bugie, bugie, gli adulti le vietano, intanto ne dicono tante.

Eliminemos todos los filtros que nos impiden saborear con plenitud este estar aquí y ahora, verdaderos.

Solo en las malas novelas la gente piensa siempre lo correcto, dice siempre lo correcto, todo efecto tiene su causa, hay simpáticos y antipáticos, buenos y malos, al final todo te consuela

No es el barrio el que está enfermo, no es Nápoles, sino el planeta, es el universo, o los universos. La habilidad consiste en ocultar u ocultarse el verdadero estado de las cosas.

With greater or less ability we fabricate fictions not so that the false will seem true but to tell the most unspeakable truth with absolute faithfulness through the fiction.

Disse che la faccia schifosa delle cose non bastava a scrivere un romanzo: senza fantasia non pareva una faccia vera, ma una maschera.

el más engañado era yo, engañado por mí mismo...

Ognuno si racconta la vita come gli fa comodo».

Vedi? Nelle favole si fa come si vuole e nella realtà si fa come si può».