Quotes About Truth

I am, at this moment, what I have always been to him: an object of beauty. He has never loved me as a woman.

One's lover is one's partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a liar then all your joint observations are unreliable. You will have to start all over again.

Her confidence is extraordinary, her impertinence unforgivable, her words terribly true.

I felt his hardness and I suddenly understood-an older girl would have understood long before-that this was the currency of desire. He was my betrothed. he desired me. I desired him. All I had to do was tell him the truth.

They are a couple in love, and anyone but a fool would see it is simply that, nothing more- and certainly nothing less.

The truth is the last thing that matters.

Uma palavra feita sobre coação não tem valor- vou ser livre.

He shrugged. "Whatever does it mean? We write poems about it all day and sing songs about it all night but if there is such a thing in real life I'm damned if I know.

Tal vez hay un Dios que es como la luz del fuego, pero todo lo que podemos ver son las sombras que nosotros mismos proyectamos cuando caminamos frente al fuego. Entonces vemos grandes sombras moviéndose y creemos que son Dios, pero en realidad no son más que nuestras propias siluetas.

Gwyneth looks at me. What does it say? she asks. Nothing, I say. The lie comes to my mouth so swiftly that it must have been put there by God to help me, and therefore it does not count as a lie at all.

on what he wants to say. I step back. So it is just as his wife fears, and she was

The truth is the last thing that matters, she said. And you can believe one thing of the truth and me: I keep it well hidden, inside my heart.

And he'll be remembered as a wife killer, Will predicted. And everything else about him that was so brave and loyal and true will be forgot. They will forget that he brought peace and prosperity to the country, that he made an England that we all could love. All they will remember of him will be that he had six wives and beheaded two of them.

God has not given this false marriage his blessing. Every year he has turned his face from me and I should have seen it earlier. The queen is not my wife, she is Arthur's wife.

Historical fiction is a hybrid, a blending of reported reality, reasonable speculation, psychological truth, and the author's imagination.

I assure him swiftly. 'There is

And we hardly ever speak of her. It is as if we cannot bring ourselves to speak of her as dead, and we cannot lie to ourselves that she is still alive.

D'you think I can't write this and get someone-a drunk married to a fool -to swear to it? Do you think I can't sey up as historian? As storyteller? D'you think I can't write a history which years from now everyone will believe as the truth? I am the king. Who shall write the record of my reign if not me? 'You can say anything you like' I say levelly. 'Of course you can. You're King of England. But it doesn't make it true.

poet Józef Wittlin inquired in 1946.

can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.

But I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

They say that the spiritual path is straight and narrow, but I used to wonder about that. I used to think that the spiritual path was about being good. It was hard to be good because there were only a few ways of being good. I have since learned the opposite. The spiritual path is straight and narrow because all it takes is moving into a lie to make you absolutely step off of it.

Through the years I found two things that clearly tune in the radio station: one is truth and the other one is love. When we tell ourselves the truth instead of lies, we are automatically tuning in Higher Power energy. In choosing truth, we choose to be loving to self and others; then the radio station is absolutely, perfectly clear.