Quotes About Truth

I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

It seems we must be taken twice, by the love that we inflict and then by the infliction of being loved, before we have the humility to look and take whatever agreeable plant that we have never seen before, because of it being all around our feet, and take it and watch it grow, choosing the lesser truth because it's all that we'll ever know.

My only concern is that I get the sentence right and describe my world clearly and deeply.

All the things we say. And how little of all the words even touch any reality. Or perhaps they all do if we knew it

Remember about mountains: what they are made of is not what made them.

She has admitted she was not hostile to the Nazis before 1940. She says she was anti-Nazi after 1940, but has produced no evidence that she criticized the Nazis then. She wrote anti-Semitic words in 1938–41, and there is no evidence she was compelled to write them. Queried on her anti-Semitic writings, she told me: "I have never written anything in my life that I did not believe to be true.

The implication of "good riddance"—that love would switch off, like an electric light, once you realized the object of your love was dumb, or cowardly, or had bad taste—was not strictly borne out by observation.

what does 'functioning normally' mean?" I asked. "Being able to face the past. Having a normal sex life. Not lying awake all night in fits of anxiety." "Oh. Are most people able to face the past and have normal sex lives?" "Yes, as a matter of fact, I think they are," she said. "Anyway, if anyone is, it should be me. Deep down I have a talent for well-being. I can feel it." I nodded. I thought she had it, too, a talent for well-being.

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

You are not American citizens or members of the white man's world. The only American citizens are the white people who are originally from Europe. So why fight a losing battle by trying to be recognized as something you are not and never will be. I am not trying to disillusion you but merely telling you the truth.

The worst thing about adultery was that it made you see your life for what it was: something that was nearly impossible to escape.

There's a line at the end of the song that goes 'Golden girl, I'll keep you forever.' And that was the jumping-off point for my own song. Vivi was my golden girl. She was the one I would hold above all others." He looks at Willa. "To this day, that's true.

Secrets become lies, and lies end up destroying you and everyone you care about.

She wasn't sure if they were telling her the truth; sometimes they told her things to see if she was gullible enough to believe them.

Bad things can happen, terrible things. You can lose the people you love the most; you can lose homes, cars, antiques, hand-knotted silk rugs that cost five figures; you can discover that the very life you're living is a terrific lie. And despite this, despite all this, the sun will continue to rise.

Telling the truth when you've done something wrong is the most terrifying thing in the world.

isn't religious but she does have an immutable sense of right and wrong and

Secrets are lies! They're lies!

The worst and best are both inclinedTo snap like vixens at the truth;But, O, beware the middle mindThat purrs and never shows a tooth!

It was apparent that there were no facts. Reality was a vague stink that anyone could smell, but no one knew where it came from.

our life is the instrument we use to experiment with the truth.

Sometimes, Shan's father had told him, people can live eighty and ninety years and only briefly, once or twice at most, glimpse the true things of life, the things that are the essence of the planet and of mankind. Sometimes people died without ever seeing a true thing. But, he had assured Shan, you can always find true things if you just know where to look.

Now every time that I look at the sky , I see it so blue. I am forever grateful when you told me the truth.

No scrim, no filter, no bullshit. She wasn't all bound up in there, gagged and furious and resentful beneath some high-pitched shrink-wrapped mess of pleasantry.