Quotes About Truth

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

great books are the ones we need

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love

how can you be true and kind at the same time? how?

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.

It's when you hide things that you choke on them.

Animals are inspirational. They don't know how to lie. They are natural forces.

I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself with sex. the bottle is damned faithful, he said, the bottle will not lie

the dark is empty; most of our heroes have been wrong

You can shoot a barracuda between the eyes and it won't go to hell because it doesn't know where or what hell is...)

Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it. The best interpreter of the dream is the dreamer.

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

I do think that poetry is important though, if you don't strive at it, if you don't fill it full of stars and falseness.

La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir

We use such big words to move nowhere.

I didn't know who to believe but one thing I do know: when a man is living many claim relationships that are hardly so and after he dies, well, then it's everybody's party.

It's never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.

When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish.

there seems to be no way out, I thought, everybody is always angry about the truth even though they claim to believe in it.

You'll never be a writer if you hide from reality.