Quotes About Truth

You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?

People are blind to explanations that lie outside their perception of reality.

A man who lies about beer makes enemies

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.

Be true, be brave, stand All the rest is darkness.

Between midnight and four, everyone should have permission to speak freely.

Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

The truth is in the details.

They say that loving eyes can never see, but that's a fool's axiom. Sometimes, they see too much

Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.

Life's simplest answers are often the easiest to overlook.

We're only as sick as our secrets.

He thought he had discovered one of life's great truths (and one he could have done without): the only thing harder than saying goodbye to yourself, a pound at a time, was saying goodbye to your friends.

This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don't understand very much about what they do -- not why it works when it's good, not why it doesn't when it's bad. I figured the shorter the book, the less bullshit. Stephen King, On Writing

He was a coward at heart, you see, although I never said the word out loud to him —not then and not ever. Doing that's about the most dangerous thing a person can do, I think, because a coward is more afraid of being discovered than he is of anything else, even dying.

It was no dream she said. Dreams fade. Reality doesn't.

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.'

Fiction is a lie. And GOOD fiction is the truth inside the lie.

A lawyer's answer...so close to the truth that the truth was able to hide in its shadow.

Sometimes loving eyes don't see what they don't want to see.