Quotes About Truth

Margaret grasped on to the magic of novels because they held out hope that Mary—and she herself—might yet have a chance at marriage. While my own experience of life was limited, I knew such a thing would not happen. It hurt, but the truth often does.

Era un pensiero doloroso ma la verità lo è sovente.

I'm going to draw on every grave in the cemetery he continued. Why do you draw them? I asked. Why a skull and crossbones? Reminds you what's underneath, don't it? It's all bones down there, whatever you may put on the grave.

It was a funny thing: once you tell your story to others it becomes more like fiction and less like truth. A layer of performance is added to it, removing you further from the real thing.

Evet,yaÅŸam bir aldatmaca. EÄŸer yeteri kadar uzun yaÅŸarsan, hiç bir ÅŸeyin ÅŸa??rt?c? olmad???n? öÄŸreniyorsun.

the grandeur false if you were not grand yourself.

They say that perhaps it is not by love, but by blood, that land is bought. They say that perhaps my people had to die to nourish this earth with their truth. Your people did not have ears to hear. Perhaps we had to return to the earth, so that we could grow within your hearts. Perhaps we have come back and will fill the hills and valleys with our song. Who is to know?

Things you have now, things you've lost. People who're near by, people who've gone far away. No matter what you choose, truth is, both regret and reluctance are going to follow you around. You just have to make sure you don't make excuses to yourself down the road.

There's no paradise for you to escape to.

Stay true to yourself and the answer will become clear

Blind belief is dangerous.

When the clouds clear we shall know the colour of the sky

Cannot admit that darkness exists because humanity itself exists, and that to erase one, you erase the other.

I am for integrity, if only because life is very short and truth is hard to come by.

Isak Dinesen went so far as to say, "There are many ways to the recognition of truth, and Burgundy is one of them.

Life is short. Ask God to give you perspective instead of believing the lies that your life isn't good enough.

Being alone feels more honest.

When your ability to determine what is real is taken away by a drug, it's terrifying. But it's far worse when it's denied to you by other people.

It's discovered through these acts of love. If God is love, and I believe that to be true, then we learn about God when we learn about love. The first, and usually the last, classroom of love is the family. The

nothing like a few days of people telling you that you are mad and deluded when you know that you are telling the truth to turn the brain.

No one gets lied to as much as mothers. Necessity is the mother of deduction.

Her reason might have collapsed by now, of course, nothing like a few days of people telling you that you are mad and deluded when you know that you are telling the truth to turn the brain.

The world is too harsh a place to contemplate directly, without a cushion of fancy and belief.

The mistake most of us make in our crucial conversations is we believe that we have to choose between telling the truth and keeping a friend.