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Quotes About Truth

Life is a lie, and Love a cheat.
~ Adah Isaacs Menken
Just because it's true, I say as often as I can in as many ways as I can form, "I sure love you."
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Love is the way messengers from the mystery tell us things
~ Rumi
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations?
~ T. S. Eliot
What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.
~ William Shakespeare
But if you want to know the truth, the weirdest thing that has happened has been my discovery that people who attend the conventions are filled with love.
~ William Shatner
Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.
~ Anne Sexton
It is supposed to true that those who do not know history are condemned to repeat it. I don't believe knowing can save us. What is constant in history is greed and foolishness and love of blood.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
~ Edward Abbey
The inability to lie is far from the love of truth.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Falling in love is like death... they are both facts
~ Irene Papas
Everybody dies alone. That's a fact. Some more alone than others.
~ Jonathan Tropper
You see the people you love the way they are in your head, but every once in a while you accidentally catch a glimpse of them in real time
~ Jonathan Tropper
Lo que he aprendido, después de nueve años de riñas matrimoniales, es que todo lo que viene después del «pero» es una mierda—.
~ Jonathan Tropper
Penny's honesty has always been like nudity in an action movie: gratuitous, but no less welcome for it.
~ Jonathan Tropper
You see the people you love the way they are in your head, but every once in a while you accidentally catch a glimpse of them in real time, and in those split seconds, as your brain scrambles to adjust to the new reality, small things inside you swerve off the road and drive over cliffs, spinning and screaming all the way down.
~ Jonathan Tropper
We share good news, then, neither to show our neighbors why Christianity is "right" nor to save people from the corrupting influence of other religions, but to name the story that helps us tell the truth about ourselves.
~ Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
But you know the old saying: If you got nothing to hide, why not talk?" "Shit," I said, shaking my head because she knew better and every cop worth a damn knew better. A lot of people went to jail for crimes they didn't commit because they talked when they should have shut up. The
~ Jonathon King
People familiar with the working of courtrooms know that truth and justice are only in the eye of the beholder. The best lawyers know that their job is only to convince that beholder of their version.
~ Jonathon King
Art is short for artificial…so the art of art is to be as real as you can within this artificial situation… In a way it's a lie to get you to see the truth.
~ Joni Mitchell
There's a lot of true things that happen in our life. I think we see them at the very moment they happen too, then we try to forget about them.
~ Jonis Agee
Je hebt uiteindelijk je begeerte lief en niet het begeerde.' Het kwam er veel plechtiger uit dan bedoeld. Meteen had hij spijt het te hebben gezegd. Simon wist dat het waar was, maar wist ook dat het aanmatigend was om te zeggen dat het waar was. Lizzie fronste. Zij vroeg of hij het nog eens wilde zeggen. Toen zei ze: 'Nou, dat vind ik niet. Ik hou gewoon van jou.
~ Joost Zwagerman
That which you most need to find will be found where you least wish to look (in sterquilinis invenitur defined)
~ Jordan B Peterson