Quotes About Truth

In a terrified world, false news was king.

This was the Darker Life, where every truth was written backward.

We rarely get what we imagine in this world.

The world is a worst case scenario and I'm afraid that all you sense is true

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.

Kids, fiction is the truth inside the lie, and the truth of this fiction is simple enough: the magic exists. S.K.

Tell him he's wrong. Tell him that even if he's right about waiting, he's right for the wrong reasons, and that makes him all the way wrong.

Sometimes it takes heart to write about a thing, doesn't it? To let that thing out of the room way in the back of your mind and put it up there on the screen.

Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.

Why does she have to be such a...such a... Go on, I said. The truth is never cussing, Son. Such a bitch!

He was only twelve, and understood that his experience of the world was limited, but one thing he was quite sure of: when someone said trust me, they were usually lying through their teeth.

The truth is that most writers are needy.

I don't think children ever forget the lies their parents tell them.

I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something... set yourself on something... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

he was after all, a novelist...and a novelist was simply a fellow who got paid to tell lies. The bigger the lies, the better the pay.

She was satisfied with the answer God had given Moses from the burning bush when Moses had seen fit to question. Who are you? Mose asks, and God comes back from that bush just as pert as you like: I Am, Who I AM. In other words, Mose, stop beatin around this here bush and get your old ass in gear.

Stand and be true

He said the mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows.

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.

Oh, about beer I never lie, Crandall said. A man who lies about beer makes enemies.

King looked back at Roland. As The Man With No Name--a fantasy version of Clint Eastwood--you were okay. A lot of fun to partner up with. Is that how you think of it? Yes. But then you changed. Right under my hand. It got so I couldn't tell if you were the hero, the antihero, or no hero at all. When you let the kid drop, that was the capper. You said you made me do that. Looking Roland straight in the eyes--blue meeting blue amid the endless choir of voices--King said, I lied, brother.

Roland had taught him that self-deception was nothing but pride in disguise, an indulgence to be denied.

The most important things are the hardest things to say