Quotes About Truth

One of my weaknesses happens to be lying, and I could tell you that I'm never going to lie again in my life, but that would be a lie.

I'll say life is simpler.

But our lives were not as they seemed, were they, Sophia? No one's life ever is.

Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

But why should I read what somebody else thinks of my life when I know the real story?

What I've learned is that there is nothing in this life that does not fail to disappoint us, even our own deaths.

And step by step, along the path of life, There's nothing true but Heaven.

But I guess everything in life is a bit disappointing, isn't it?

… "That at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what´s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That´s the world´s greatest lie." - The Alchemist, Paulo Cohelo -

You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

a man only knows what he's experienced

Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

What's up with you? How come you're being like this?' Because it's the truth. This is the world we live in.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

People don't like to think, if one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth. -Plato, philosopher (427-347 BCE)

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

If someone likes you when you are living a lie, remember - he likes the lie, not you.

The prosaic fact of the universe's existence alone defeats both the pragmatist and the romantic.

. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party when the masks are dropped.

Birth copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.