Quotes About Truth

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain. I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.

Be brave, be kind, be honest, be true— remember these things are alive within you.

Trust the soul above all things, for it is made by the Divine hand and woven with threads of truth, eternity, and light.

The veterinarian looked at Buttons for a few seconds, and then he looked up at Karen. He cleared his throat. He said, "Ma'am, I don't know how to tell you this, but—Buttons—Buttons isn't a dog.

The weatherman is always as honest as he is vague.

It had not seemed difficult, on a small income, to know what was right to do....Now, with so much, it was daily a decision: what was necessary, what was frivolous...It was so much gray--so little black and white; for a year she'd spent more of her time questioning herself and how she lived in Truth than she had done altogether in her life.

If you're not a criminal, then what are you doing stealing all these swords and things?" For a moment he was silent. Then he rubbed his chin and said, "There's no name for it in English." "Oh, is there not? 'Burglary' seems descriptive enough." "Kyojitsu." He looked levelly into her eyes, not wavering. "False-true.

We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives would exactly mirror our image of ourselves. Our lies about what is really happening in our lives are what we use to "patch up" our ego with rationalizations and justifications, all of which conceal from us the fact that we cannot really do anything because we have no Being.

History shares some secrets, keeps others.

Comedy is a way to make sense of chaos. It's a way of dealing with things that are overwhelming, that threaten you it's a way to survive and get closer to the truth.

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Doing the right thing has power.

If you couldn't face the truth about yourself, then you weren't ready for the truth about anything

When it came down to it, Sandy didn't have much use for words because so many of the ones he had heard over his life had been lies.

Is there anything sadder than losers telling themselves that they're fortunate?

She wonders if he is as exhausted by all the lying as she is.

Laura Lippman

Josephine Tey's The Daughter of Time, he rolls onto his back

He has to know what she's saying is too good to be true. Good Lord, if this were the kindest way to break up with a woman, that would be the greatest thing that ever happened to men. Maybe she should write an advice book for men, one that tells them everything they want to hear, as opposed to all those books for women, which tell them to be the opposite of what they are, no matter what that is.

Laura Lippman

and a Dr. Brown's celery soda.

once she had believed the world could become new again, that the right people in the right place could make up any rules they wanted. And none of this was true. They had all paid the price. And really, where was the moment that should have happened differently? Which was the choice that had set all the others in motion? And would a different choice have been the right one?