Quotes About Truth

Your own endurance might be a pleasant fiction allowed you by others who've really faced the facts.

So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment.

Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.

Reality is just a collective hunch.

In fiction, the characters have their own lives. They may start as a gloss on the author's life, but they move on from there. In poetry, especially confessional poetry but in other poetry as well, the poet is not writing characters so much as emotional truth wrapped in metaphor. Bam! Pow! A shot to the gut.

You think you know this story. You do not.

The only duty of the dreamer is to tell the truth about the dream.

Because though women lie when they have to and men lie all the time, the mirror always tells the truth.

The Baba gives me paper, and a pen that sputters ink. Write, she says, tell the true Though you may have to lie to do it.

After a while, the story becomes the truth because no one actually remembers how things really happened.

I learned to write poetry, telling the truth through metaphor, simile, straight-forward lies.

How can this be, this great magic, that makes real the unreal, the not-actual into a kind of factless fictual, turns lies into the True? Don't ask me, for I am new at this work, new at telling my own truth. All I can start with is Once Upon A Time, that oldest and truest of lies.

I tell the truth,' she said. 'But I tell it slant.

I figured I'd embellish the truth a little, since the police might not be up on the finer points of bounty hunterism and might not understand about commandeering.

Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon, and the truth.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

If you can't fool yourself," he said, "how can you expect to fool anybody else?

Okay so I fibbed a little about the kids. I didn't want her to feel bad. I mean we can't all be lucky enough to have a hamster.

The law is for people who have nothing to hide.

White lies are a gray area

A wise man, recognizing that the world is an illusion, does not act as if it is real, and so he escapes suffering." The

Omigod. He gave you a car? He said it was an investment in our working relationship. What does that mean? What kind of car is it? A new Porsche. That's at least oral sex. Be serious! I said. Okay, the truth is . . . It's beyond oral sex. It could be, you know, butt stuff. I'll return the car. Stephanie, this is a Porsche! And I think he's flirting with me, but I'm not sure.

But in my experience, the virtuous are usually the first to die.

Oscar Wilde said it's never the question that's indiscreet, only the answers.