Quotes About Truth

A secret too long kept can kill a soul by inches. I watched a secret almost destroy a man once, the finest man ever made. Such a secret is like keeping treasure in a tomb. Little by little, poison eats away at the gold. By the time the door is opened, there may be nothing left but dust.

It can be... difficult to to learn how the world truly is, to see it in its true shape and form... most human beings never do. Most could not bear it.

Of course I can see you. I'm not blind, you know. Oh, but you are. You just don't know it.

What if everything you believe is wrong and you could still be loved and still be forgiven?

Love makes liars of us all.

Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.

Maryse sighed."Nothing conclusive.If only the dead could talk,eh,Lucian?

Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for digestion." - Will Herondale

You're quite wrong, you know. I am the most permanent person that you will eve meet," said Magnus, his voice breathless with laughter and his eyes stung a little by tears. "It is only that it never makes a difference.

Faeries believed in promises over fidelity of body or heart.

If you can't tell the truth to the people you care about the most, eventually you stop being able to tell the truth to yourself.

Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!

Love is so powerful that it always wins. Truth is so powerful that it always wins. All it takes is Time.

Basically, I bring the truth and the light through the written word. For in such a way am I utilized as a creative human vessel.

Logan had infiltrated enemy strongholds with less effort than he was expending to get this family tell him the complete truth.... Something was very wrong when war seemed so much simpler than his home life.

Say what you think; think what you mean.

Drag all the skeletons out where we can see 'em," she said softly."That's the only way to get rid of them. They hate the sun light.

It was part of what had made him so good at manipulating people - he could present them with what they wanted to see. And what made it so powerful was that at some level, it was real.

There's an old saying that you should believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.

Why would you bother lying?" Her eyes darkened. "What would you gain?" "Your ruffles?" He watched her face and knew the moment when she realized he was teasing her. "You said I could steal them, yes?" "As I recall, we decided you should take them when I wasn't in them.

You should believe none of what you hear and only half of what you see.

If I haven't found out who I am until the end of my life…because I am afraid/ashamed of it, then I would have just pretended to live. Initmacy really means to find something out about yourself that is deep inside.

I'm the most fluent liar in the world, I'm the coolest, the smoothest. A lie, Savich thought.

I am fast learning that in politics there is no such thing as truth, there's only who's the best liar and how well he's able to twist things to his advantage, and how many cronies he has who lie as well as he does.