Quotes About Truth

It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

There was pain, but there was also joy. It was in the tension between the two that life happened. Imperfect as it was, this world was real. Illusion was no substitute. I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

Dishonesty increases disorder exponentially. It's hard enough to communicate when you're telling the truth.

Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in the petunia.

Names are illusions," he growled. "Nonsensical labels seized upon by people to make them feel better about the intangibility of their puny existences. I am this. I am that," he mocked. "I came from so and so. Ergo I am … whatever the blah-blah you want to claim. Bloody hell, spare me.

I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

See things for what they are. Drop your blinders and raise the sewer to eye level. Admit that your swimming in shit. If you don't acknowledge the turd heading down the drain towards you; you can't dodge it.

Words are easy; lies as simple as parting your lips and breathing.

Pessimists are only pessimists when they're wrong. When we're right, the world calls us prophets.

Safety is a fence, and fences are for sheep. I would rather die at twenty-two, knowing the truth, then live in a cage of lies for a hundred years.

Rule #1 in the Universe: the crap always hits the fan. It's the nature of crap. It's a fan magnet.

It's so easy to lie. What's even worse is how we cling to those lies. We beg for the illusion so we don't have to face the truth, don't have to feel alone.

He'd told me once that fear was more than a wasted emotion, it was the ultimate set of blinders; that if I couldn't face the truth of my reality, I could never control it, and would be subject to the wishes of anyone whose will was stronger than mine. He knew too well, from battling his own inner monster, what I've come to fathom only here and now. The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves.

Sometimes my dreams feel so real it's hard to believe they're just the subconscious's stroll across a whimsical map that has no true north.

I love you, Dani Mega O'Malley," Dancer said against my ear as he moved inside me. "More than the world is big. Deeper than the sky is blue. Truer than the universe is vast. I love you more eternal than pi.

If you already know the answer, Ms. Lane, don't waste my time. You just wasted a month of it." -Barrons

Lies are horny little buggers, they breed like rabbits and bound around just as insanely and then you have to try to keep track of them.

Fact: you can never know another person completely. Fact: you are born alone and die alone. Fact: there is no such thing as safety. Only vigilance, determination to survive, and a willingness to be ruthless about it. Fact: love is not perfect. Fact: neither am I.

You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

You can discover just as much from what people don't say to you, as what they do. It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.

I know a simple truth: mercy killing doesn't hold one fucking ounce of mercy for those that live.

There are many realities pocketed away in the one we call our own. Most go blindly about their lives and never see beyond the ends of their noses.

And he would never have instructed her to tell his past self such a story and expected himself to believe it.