Quotes About Truth

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

It was the truth. I felt a yearning love for every instant that passed.

Everyone knows that hidden pull is there, but we go on living our lives, pretending we don't. We keep our gazes fixed, day after day, on the things we want to see.

Everything in my life revolves around people playing at being something. But that's only because we have to be that way in order to get on with our lives. Just because people are playing doesn't mean their hearts aren't in it.

Hace mucho tiempo que me convertí en una mujer, pero estaba convencida de que, en algún lugar dentro de mí, existía un yo masculino, mi verdadero yo, y de que estaba desempeñando simplemente el papel de mujer. Pero soy mujer en cuerpo y alma. Soy realmente tu madre, ¿verdad? Me estoy riendo.

Creo que, a la larga, ir con la verdad por delante es lo que mejores resultados da.

Mi è capitato di vedere gente allinearsi al punto di vista altrui e mantenere segrete le proprie opinioni soltanto in nome di minimi profitti, nessuno vuole assumersi responsabilità, tutti preferiscono starsene nel mezzo, con vigliaccheria, così che le cose appaiono sempre più torbide e alla fine ci si ritrova imprigionati all'interno di una specie di rigida cornice: ho visto questa storia ripetersi all'infinito.

If you don't say what you're thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up

It was all your imagination. And imagination is sometimes worse than reality.

Certo, osserviamo tutti il mondo da dentro una scatola, e se fossimo dentro a un'altra la penseremmo diversamente. Ma visto che è in questa che siamo, possiamo solo continuare a viverre considerandola la migliore in assoluto, pur dubitandone di tanto in tanto.

Que los muertos no volvían. Que una cosa era sólo una cosa

Dev'esserci un posto dove non c'è distinzione tra vero e falso, dove le persone come ce le immaginiamo e come sono realmente vivono fianco a fianco. E' quella l'unica verità. Una verità che non sarà mai possibile esprimere a parole. "Another World

Despite all you may have heard to the contrary, I have never had a ride in a patrol wagon.

Truth, I have learned, differs for everybody. Just as no two people ever see a rainbow in exactly the same place - and yet both most certainly see it, while the person seemingly standing right underneath it does not see it at all - so truth is a question of where one stands, and the direction one is looking in at the time.

I had nightmares I thought were really horrible until I woke up and remembered what reality was at the moment.

Nothing is black and white, and there is no purity and there is no such thing has justice.

If you want to say something and have people listen then you have to wear a mask. If you want to be honest then you have to live a lie.

When you have once seen the chaos, you must make some thing to set between yourself and that terrible sight; and so you make a mirror, thinking that in it shall be reflected the reality of the world; but then you understand that the mirror reflects only appearances, and that reality is somewhere else, off behind the mirror; and then you remember that behind the mirror there is only the chaos.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

Faith that denies fact is fanaticism

Now hear a new truth. The Great Mother Herself will be forced to hide from those who are coming. She will seem to disappear while they grow strong, but someday She will return. Although our children and their children, perhaps to the thousandth generation, must live in the new world that has forgotten Her, they must never forget. She will return.

For the sake of the troops, for the love of the troops, we must not add yet another casualty to this war. We must not let truth be a casualty of this war.

The real problem has far less to do with what is really out there than it does with our resistance to finding out what is really out there.

I read science for the same reason I read theology: because I am a seeker after truth.