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Quotes About Truth

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.
~ William Goldman
In life, finding a voice is speaking and living the truth. Each of you is an original. Each of you has a distinctive voice. When you find it, your story will be told. You will be heard.
~ John Grisham
There is only life, there is nobody who lives a life.
~ Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
I knew from a very early age, that what I saw on tv had nothing to do with real life. So I wanted to make a record of real life. That included having a camera with me at all times.
~ Nan Goldin
I'd rather die riding 95 than live a life full of nothing but filthy lies.
~ Mitch Lucker
Life will show you masks that are worth all your carnivals
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Christians don't tell lies, they just go to church and sing them. How many times have you stood and sang, "Take my life and let it be" when you haven't given Him one ounce?
~ Leonard Ravenhill
A God. The God. One word can make all the difference in the world.
~ C. S. Lewis
If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
~ Ziggy Marley
Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.
~ John Henry Newman
Think not I dread to see my spirit fly, Through the dark gates of fell mortality; Death has no terrors when the life is true; 'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.
~ Omar Khayyam
One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
~ Mark Twain
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
wanted—I needed—to know that I had indeed seen him, not some apparition conjured up by the Crawler, and I clutched at anything that would help me believe that. What convinced me the most wasn't the photograph—it was the sample the anthropologist had taken from the edge of the Crawler, the sample that had proven to be human brain tissue.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
The trouble with logic is that its relationship with reality is usually obscure.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Maybe all of this was prevarication and excuses and not an afterword at all.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Qué es un mapa sino una forma de destacar ciertas cosas y disimular otras?
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Wolno?? mog?a ci? oddali? od tego, czego szukasz, zamiast ci? do tego zbli?y?.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Here it came. There it was. How comfort led to overreach or to some half reveal of what should be hidden.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
What's wrong with asking questions?" "Nothing." Everything. Once the questions snuck in, whatever had been certain became uncertain. Questions opened the way for doubt. His father had told him that. "Don't let them ask questions. You're already giving them the answers, even if they don't know it.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
There's three ways not to see what you don't want to,' she told me. 'One is the coward's way and too damned painful. The other is to close your eyes forever which is the same as the first, when it comes to it. The third is the hardest and the best: You have to make sure only the things you can afford to see come before you.' *
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Wick spoke in such alchemies and distillations of hope that I couldn't pick out the facts from the fictions, or which he told me to reassure himself.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Nada que viva y respire es realmente objetivo, ni siquiera en estado de aislamiento, ni siquiera aunque lo único que poseyera al cerebro fuese el deseo autoinmolador de la verdad.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
Can you not distinguish truth from fiction? Or were you never taught the difference?
~ Jeff Vandermeer