Quotes About Truth

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

Secrets tear you apart.

In college, I had a course in Latin, and one day the word divorce came up. I always figured it came from some root that meant divide. In truth, it comes from divertere, which means to divert. I believe that. All divorce does is divert you, taking you away from everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you wanted and steering you into all kinds of other stuff, like discussions about your mother's girdle and whether she should marry someone else.

The world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.

All that happens when your dreams come true is a slow, melting realization that it wasn't what you thought.

We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, the sadness can depart once we see the truth. What's the truth? Annie asked. That the end of loneliness is when someone needs you. The old woman smiled. And the world is so full of need.

The truth is, there is no line. There's only your life, how you mess it up, and who is there to save you. Or who isn't.

Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.

people in grief can imagine many things. It makes them feel better. It doesn't make it real.

And while she didn't know it then, she was learning another truth about love: it comes when it comes. Simple as that.

The truth was, they had not kept in touch. War could bond men like a magnet, but like a magnet it could repel them, too. The things they saw, the things they did. Sometimes they just wanted to forget.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it

You should never construct a lie based on a child's questions. It is like writing music based on cymbal crashes.

She wanted to blame him, to blame her whole rotton existence. But seeing Ethan, seeing her mother, seeing the world after the world she had known, somehow took her to the very bottom, the end of self-delusion, and the truth enveloped her like a cocoon, and all she said was I was so lonely . And Father Time said, You were never alone.

Secrets, they'll tear you apart.

I think people believe what they want to believe.

sometimes those stories, like the presence of the Lord, are hard to believe. Unless believing is what makes them true.

Death has a way of doing that. "The truth is, Mitch," he said, "once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

The truth is, Mitch," he said, "once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.

Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? Cleo asked. People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame. She looked at the sky, now a deep shade of purple. We fear loneliness, Annie, but loneliness itself does not exist. It has no form. It is merely a shadow that falls over us. And just as shadows die when light changes, that sad feeling can depart once we see the truth.

Now. My turn. Look, if you say that science will eventually prove there is no God, on that I must differ. No matter how small they take it back, to a tadpole, to an atom, there is always something they can't explain, something that created it all at the end of the search.

The truth is, you don't get satisfaction from those things. You know what really gives you satisfaction? ...Offering others what you have to give.

I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie.

Well, the truth is, if you really listen to that bird on your shoulder, if you accept that you can die at any time—then you might not be as ambitious as you are.