Quotes About Truth

Les livres sont des miroirs, et l'on n'y voit que ce qu'on porte en soi-même

Sabe el loco que está loco? ¿O los locos son los demás, que se empeñan en convencerle de su sinrazón para salvaguardar su existencia de quimeras?

Y es que nada es tan difícil de creer como la verdad y, por el contrario, nada tan seductor como la fuerza de la mentira cuanto mayor es su peso.

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist on convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality? Juli

Marina mi-a zis odat? c? nu ne aducem aminte decat ceea ce nicicând nu s-a petrecut.

Look, Daniel, at my age either you begin to see things for what they are or you're pretty much done for. Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is manure

Da ljudi misle ?etvrtinu onoga što govore, ovaj bi svijet bio raj.

We only remember what never happened.

Amikor a világ szörnyetegnek fest le valakit, az vagy valóságos szent, vagy elhallgatják a mese másik felét.

Az igazmondást kevés dolog indokolja, a hazugságnak viszont végtelen sok oka lehet.

We are doomed to remember what never really happened.

How old is the lad?" inquired Barceló, inspecting me out of the corner of his eye. "Almost eleven," I announced. Barceló flashed a sly smile. "In other words, ten. Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.

Tudja, az ostobák fecsegnek, a gyávák titkolóznak, a bölcsek pedig végighallgatnak másokat.

People get so used to lying and repeating other people's lies, either because they're afraid or out of self-interest, resentment, or sheer stupidity, that they end up lying even when they think they're telling the truth. It's the failing of our times.

A story is an endless labyrinth of words, images and spirits, conjured up to show us the invisible truth about ourselves. A story is, after all, a conversation between the narrator and the reader, and just as narrators can only relate as far as their ability will permit, so too readers can only read as far as what is already written in their souls.

Nada es justo. A lo máximo que se puede aspirar es a que sea lógico. La justicia es una rara enfermedad en un mundo por lo demás sano como un roble.

Man glaubt, woran man kann, nicht, woran man will. Außer man ist ein Idiot, dann ist es genau umgekehrt.

Creo en la literatura. Y a ratos en el arte de la gastronomía, sobre todo si hay un buen arroz de por medio. Lo demás son embustes o paños caliente, según lo mire.

La Marina em va dir una vegada que només recordem allò que mai no ha ocurregut.

Nadie tiene tanta compasión con un embustero como alguien de su condición.

Los libros son espejos: sólo se ve en ellos lo que uno ya lleva dentro - La Sombra del Viento, Carlos Ruíz Zafón

Jedina je pouka koja se može izvu?i iz ove pri?e, ili iz bilo koje druge, to da u stvarnom životu za razliku od mašte, ništa nije kako se pri?inja.

You believe what it's possible to believe, not what you want to believe. Unless you're an idiot, in which case it's the other way around.

Qualcuno ha detto che nel momento in cui ti soffermi a pensare se ami o meno una persona, hai già la risposta affermai.