Quotes About Truth

Philosophers there are who try to make themselves believe that this life is happy; but they believe it only while they are saying it, and never yet produced conviction in a single mind.

We all know by theory that there is no permanent happiness in this life: But the weight of the precept is not felt in the same manner as when it is confirmed to us by a heavy calamity.

Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.

So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.

I don't like novels that tie everything up in a plot-y way. I always think that's not really true of life, particularly of people in power.

I think I lead a really real life.

Man must saturate his daily life in truthful speech, virtuous acts and holy thoughts.

I'm shocked and surprised by people that are shocked and surprised that certain things in life are made up or not as true as you might believe them to be.

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.

There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.

Life is cruel and unfair, my friends, and that is fact.

Life's so much easier when you're not always maintaining two worlds: the one formed of lies, which feels real, and the one you live in, which often feels like lies. So easy to get them confused.

If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

People embrace false magical theories in the hope something good will come out of them. In the most extreme of these, good comes out of them only at the end of this life, in paradise.

I think looking at your own life, on- and offscreen, you can motivate anything, or you can delude yourself into anything.

We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

I have had four happy days in my life, and three of them turned out to be illusions.

Granny Weatherwax was firmly against fiction. Life was hard enough without lies floating around and changing the way people thought.

I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.

Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.

The Book of Mormon changes lives.

I was living a life of a lie. I really was.

Whatever you base your life on--you have to live up to that. Jesus is the one Lord you can live for who already died for you.