Quotes About Truth

And, beside the innumerable purely subjective advantages, there are the rich objective rewards. A dream-picture brings no buyer, a dream-plan no dividends, a fantasied book is followed by no royalty statements. Crass as this may sound in a world which spends a great deal of its breath in persuading futilitarians that they have chosen the better part, it is the literal truth and stands for a truth still greater.

All vital persons are the target of the curiosity of those who are not vital; but the few whose opinions concern you will know the truth, and the others are of no importance. Yet many withdraw from active life, not to take up an intenser inner life, but merely to avoid the vulgar curiosity of the crowd.

Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.

I need you to do more than survive. As writers, as revolutionaries, tell the truth, your truth in your own way. Do not buy into their system of censorship, imagining that if you drop this character or hide that emotion, you can slide through their blockades. Do not eat your heart out in the hope of pleasing them.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't." (145)

Fiction is a piece of truth that turns lies to meaning.

People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do right because the world doesn't make sense if you don't.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is what it means to have no loved version of your life but the one you made.

The desperate need to be alone with Laurel, to force truth from her, began hammering against his temples until he wanted to cry out from the pain of it.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

Once a priest told us that no one gets up in the pulpit without promulgating a heresy. He was joking, of course, but what I suppose he meant was the truth was so pure, so holy, that it was hard to emphasize one aspect of the truth without underestimating another, that we did not see things as a whole, but through a glass darkly, as St. Paul said.

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

there was no safety anywhere in life, except as illusion

She thought there was a curious hardness about her, as if her beauty was a deceptively rich topsoil, thinly spread over rock.… Finding that no one was looking in her direction, Mrs. Pollifax reached into her purse and surreptitiously examined her passport. Mrs. Lovecraft was absolutely right: there

Whe you're so infatuated with someone like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

Are you always this honest?" "Almost never

When you are infatuated with someone,like I was with Drew,it's very difficult to see them for what they really are

As mentiras têm vida. Elas vivem. Depois de as contarmos, temos de cuidar delas, de as alimentar, acarinhar, de lhes dar atenção, fazer companhia... dar amor e afeto, talvez, como qualquer outro ser vivos pelo qual somos responsáveis.

Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.

Even idiots ocasionally speak the truth accidentally.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

There's a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

By the time you're his Shivering and sighing, And he vows his passion is Infinite, undying Lady, make a note of this: One of you is lying.