Quotes About Truth

Truth, but not very much of it, suitable for paddling your toes in.

It was as if two different versions of reality coexisted in my head at the same time.

The Devil might claim he could not see in human hearts. But Lucifer was, after all, the Prince of Lies. And when those lies went clothed in truth, so much the better.

Caitlin Conn was a lousy liar. In her father's house, refusing to lie had been rebellion, and under those circumstances the small rebellions kept one sane. You asserted any control you could; you defended any part of your identity you could own. Lying would have been safer, it would have diverted Alasdair's attention.

All stories are true stories, or so Will tells me.

We can't help putting down roots. The best we can do is lie to ourselves about it.

It is perilous to admit weakness. It is even more perilous to lie to dragons.

Oliver Cromwell came floating back to me. "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken.

Michelangelo Osiris Leary Kusanagi-Jones, Liar, was going to have to tell someone the truth.

There was a girl. There's always a girl, they say, and in this case it was true.

Muire closed her eyes and spoke around a heart's denial.

Even losing you (a joking voice, a gesture/ I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident/ the art of losing's not too hard to master/ though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Art should be truth; and truth, unadorned, unsentimentalized, is beauty.

If one didn't let oneself swallow some few lies, I don't know how one would ever carry the past.

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

Nobody speaks the truth when there is something they must have.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

What I have always found is, anything one keeps hidden should now and then be hidden somewhere else.

Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone. I haven't wanted to hurt you; I haven't wanted to touch you in any way. When I try and show you the truth I fill you with such despair. Life is so much more impossible than you think.

Ever since that evening when you gave me my hat, I've been as true to you as I've got it in me to be. Don't force me to where untruth starts. You say nothing would make you hate me. But once make me hate myself and you'd make me hate you.

If one didn't let oneself swallow some few lies, I don't know how one would ever carry the past.

But here I do see how everyone feels." "I wonder if I like that," said Eddie. "I suspect how people feel, and that seems to me bad enough—I wonder if the truth would be worse or better. The truth, of course I mean, about other people. I know only too well how I feel.

His life in general had been a neatly wrapped package of lies.

There was the dream of happiness and then there was what was real.