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Quotes About Truth

Those who believe absurdities will commit atrocities.
~ Voltaire
Matter and death are mortal illusions.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
Silence is death. If you speak, you die. If you are silent, you die. So speak, and die.
~ Tahar Djaout
Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.
~ Gordon Lish
The fear of death is the fear of the end of an illusion; so long as the illusion persists so long will the fear remain.
~ Christmas Humphreys
Where truth goes, I will go, and where truth is I will be, and nothing but death shall divide me and the truth.
~ Thomas Brooks
There are always two deaths, the real one and the one people know about.
~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
I ain't saying you're a liar, because that wouldn't be polite. But I'll tell you this, ma'am. If I loved liars, I'd hug you to death.
~ Jim Thompson
The death rate is a fact; anything beyond this is an inference.
~ Unknown
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
~ Phillips Brooks
With the advent of DNA, we know that people have been convicted and sentenced to death who later proved not to be guilty of the crime.
~ Kamala Harris
The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.
~ Mark Twain
Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
~ Bobby Darin
Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
The world belongs to women. In other words, to death. But everyone lies about it.
~ Philippe Sollers
We would not let ourselves be burned to death for our opinions: we are not sure enough of them for that.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Remembrance of death saves one from this world's deceit.
~ Bill Vaughan
All true stories end in death.
~ Matthew Woodring Stover
Death is the surest calculation that can be made.
~ Ludwig Buchner
Death is there to keep us honest and constantly remind us we are free.
~ Dan Fogelberg
Death comes in a flash, and that's the truth of it, the person's gone in less than 24 frames of film.
~ Martin Scorsese
Technical civilization has made a great error in not suppressing death, the only human reality still intact
~ Jacques Ellul
Death is the ugly fact which Nature has to hide, and she hides it well.
~ Alexander Smith
If you followed the media you'd think that everybody in Africa was starving to death, and that's not the case; so it's important to engage with the other Africa.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie