Quotes About Truth

Well, honesty gets you locked up in a psych ward.

T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.

Open your mind, this is only a song, But the way to be happy is to admit you were wrong.

She realized that you could be as honest as possible in life, but people only see the truth if it is close enough to their reality.

Philip K. Dick wrote that it is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.

It was depressing that he found it so much easier to question his sanity than my reality.

So the fact that this book exists is proof that depression lies. Depression makes you think things that are wrong.

If you live long enough you realise that every proven fact is later disproved and then proven again.

In a world that can get too much, a world where we are running out of mind space, fictional worlds are essential. They can be an escape from reality, yes, but not an escape from truth.

Time disproves the lies depression tells.

The world is real, but your world is subjective. Changing your perspective changes your planet.

I should also say, in case it needs saying: I don't know for sure that the words I write were the words that were actually spoken. They probably weren't. But this is how I remember these things, and all we can ever be is faithful to our memories of reality, rather than the reality itself, which is something closely related but never precisely the same thing.

Laughter, I realized, was the reverberating sound of a truth hitting a lie.

Facebook is where everyone lies to their friends. Twitter is where they tell the truth to strangers.

The one truth she had, a truth she was now proud of and pleased with, a truth she had not only come to terms with but welcomed openly, with every fiery molecule of her being. A truth that she scribbles hastily but firmly, pressing deep into the paper with the nib, in capital letters, in the first-person tense. A truth that was the beginning and seed of everything possible. A former curse and a present blessing. Three simple words containing the power and potential of a multiverse. I AM ALIVE.

Depression lies. And while the feelings themselves were real, the things they led me to believe were resolutely not.

I was able to work out that what humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing-enough voice and they would believe it. Anything, of course, except the truth.

A veces los arrepentimientos no tienen ninguna base. Algunas veces son simplemente fake news

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. —J. G. BALLARD

Tolstoy wrote, back in 1894, in The Kingdom of God Is Within You: The more men are freed from privation; the more telegraphs, telephones, books, papers, and journals there are; the more means there will be of diffusing inconsistent lies and hypocrisies, and the more disunited and consequently miserable will men become, which indeed is what we see actually taking place.

She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal. Maybe that was the real-life lesson.

You had to stay consistent to life's delusions. All you had was your perspective, so objective truth was meaningless. You had to choose a dream and stick with it. Everything else was a con.And once you had tasted truth and love in the same potent cocktail there had to be no more tricks.

In every life there is a moment, A crisis. One that says, what I believe is wrong. It happens to everyone, the only difference being how that knowledge changes them.

But stories aren't always lies. They are things stored in all our imaginations-hence the name stories-and it is the author's job to point them out.