Quotes About Truth

Burke is as small as a white lie and looks as if he might be carried off under the arm of a hefty woman at any second. He feels it too, and smiles cruelly.

People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.

You've heard of people calling in sick. You may have called in sick a few times yourself. But have you ever thought about calling in well? It'd go like this: You'd get the boss on the line and say, "Listen, I've been sick ever since I started working here, but today I'm well and I won't be in anymore." Call in well.

I close my eyes, and this image floats beside me. A sweaty toothed mad man with a stare that pounds my brain. His hands reach out and choke me, and all the time he's mumbling. "Truth, truth." Like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, but it'll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it'll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying, to the moment we leave dying, it'll just cover your face, as you wail and cry and scream.

Show me the heart unfettered by foolish dreams, and I'll show you a happy man." Keating: "But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

The Shy Hunter is terrified that others will destroy the truth within his heart, Rose said, And so the Shy Hunter armours himself ... thus armoured, he watches and waits and studies the world meticulously, hunting the world for prey ... Prey not in the sense of devouring or murder, Rose said, But prey in the sense of hunting for sore truths within another human heart.

most religious people had given up their right to being human beings by claiming they had the God's truth and nobody else had any truth.

It's the responsibility of the survivor to tell the story.

A person without her or his own truth ain't a person at all, Ida said. Anybody who tells you different—is a jackass, and no longer deserves to be called human being.

The gods know what's important, what's wrong about you. They know everything. If you go out searching for the Holy Grail, they won't let you find it.

You know, Rose said, You're not the first man in history who thinks his cock is the path to wisdom. You're not the first man to make his hard-on into the Holy Grail.

Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has got at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins

Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

reality, the name we give to the common experience.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

The big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

Well you say that it's gospel, But I know that it's only church.

i never told the truth so i can never tell a lie...

On my gravestone, I want it to say, "I told you I was sick.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

Everything you can think of is true.