Quotes About Truth

Tu mente se creerá las mentiras piadosas pero conoce también las verdades que duelen y que hacen que esas mentiras sean necesarias. Y tu mente te castigará por creer ambas cosas.

Sometimes people need to lie to themselves most of all

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary.

And there's yer lesson. There ain't nothing good that don't got real bad waiting to follow it.

Quien dice que no es todo lo demas lo que es un sueno

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. "But how do you fight it?" Conor asked, his voice rough. "How do you fight all the different stuff inside?" By speaking the truth,

You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Conor shook his head. "That's a terrible story. And a cheat." It is a true story, the monster said. Many things that are true feel like a cheat. Kingdoms get the princes they deserve, farmers' daughters die for no reason, and sometimes witches merit saving. Quite often, actually. You'd be surprised. Conor

People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We

The justifications of men who kill should always be heard with skepticism,

So what do I do?" he finally asked. You do what you did just now, the monster said. You speak the truth. "That's it?" You think it is easy? The monster raised two enormous eyebrows. You were willing to die rather than speak it.

The best liar is the one who believes her lie is true.

I am not your enemy, Todd Hewitt," he says one more time. "Just tell me her name and this will all stop." I

Because who can say in the end that any one of these places is more real than any other?

Noise ain't truth, Noise is what men want to be true, and there's a difference twixt those two things so big that it could ruddy well kill you if you don't watch out.

La mente crede a bugie confortanti, mentre conosce le dolorose verità che rendono necessarie quelle bugie. E la tua mente ti punisce per il fatto che credi contemporaneamente a entrambe le cose. [...] La vita non si scrive con le parole. Si scrive con le azioni. Quello che si pensa non conta. La sola cosa importante è ciò che si fa.

Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?

Ma che cos'è un sogno, Conor O'Malley? Chi può dire che non sia un sogno tutto il resto?

Uneori, oamenii au nevoie s? se mint? pe ei în?i?i mai mult decât pe oricine altcineva.

Mintea ta va crede orice minciuni atâta vreme cât acestea î?i vor aduce lini?te, f?r? s? ignori, în tot acest timp, adev?rurile dureroase care au dus la apari?ia acestor minciuni necesare.

Assuming a thing ain't knowing a thing.

People see stories everywhere," Regine says. "That's what my father used to say. We take random events and we string them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true." She glances back at Seth. "We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

The answer is that it does not matter what you think, the monster said, because your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. You wanted her to go at the same time you were desperate for me to save her. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. " -A Monster Calls

Did it matter? George thought perhaps it did, and not in terms of finding truth or of any hope of discovering what really happened at any given moment. There were as many truths - overlapping, stewed together - as there were tellers. The truth mattered less than story's life. A story forgotten died. A story remembered not only lived, but grew.