Quotes About Truth

You lied to the undertaker, and said your health was failing--a wholly commendable lie, since it cost you nothing and pleased the other man.

I think that all this courteous lying is a sweet and loving art, and should be cultivated.

The man who speaks an injurious truth lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving.

Wenn du die Wahrheit sagst, brauchst du kein gutes Gedächtnis.

Rzeczywisto?? prze?ciga wszelk? fantazj?, bo fantazja musi si? jednak liczy? z jakim? prawdopodobie?stwem.

Among other common lies, we have the _silent_ lie--the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth.

No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

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

In mindfulness, we start to see the world as it is, not as we expect it to be, how we want it to be, or what we fear it might become. These

Of course real horror does not depend upon the melodrama of shadows or even the conspiracies of night.

Sometimes how you talk is all you got. Even if your talk is wrong.

Assez bizarrement, donc, le meilleur argument en faveur de l'authenticité est le coût absolument inabordable de la fiction. Il semblerait donc que le spectre qui hante Navidson Record et ne cesse de se ruer contre la porte, soit tout simplement la menace récurrente de sa propre réalité.

It is understood that the world does not want to be understood. The world would not be this world if it did.

God for all intents and purposes is an equal sign, and at least up until now, something humanity has always been able to believe in is that universe adds up

It is a justice forever informed by the deepest kind of agony.

I'm not mixed up at all. I'm only telling you what you said. What someone says and what happened are usually two different things, Rudy, especially when it comes to you. -Liesel Meminger

for some reason, dying men always ask the question they know the answer to. perhaps it's so they can die being right.

It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it. Usually, we walk around constantly believing ourselves. I'm okay, we say. I'm alright. But sometimes the truth arrives on you, and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer - it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.

Of course you're real-like any thought or any story. It's real when you're in it.

My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.

No, I'm not a saint, Sophie. I'm just another stupid human.

You want to know what I truly look like? I'll help you out. find yourself a mirror while I continue.

He prefers not to ruin things with any more questions. What it is is what it is.

HERE IS A SMALL FACT *** You are going to die. I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations. Please, trust me. I most definitely can be cheerful. I can be amiable. Agreeable. Affable. And that's only the A's. Just don't ask me to be nice. Nice has nothing to do with me.