Quotes About Truth

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer. — Thomas Merton

We would gladly have listened to her (they said) if only she had spoken like a lady. But they are liars and the truth is not in them.

In my opinion, questions that are based on something real ought to be settled by something real without all this damned lazy miserable drifting

We've been in a relationship for five years now," Puck said, his voice hard. "It wasn't normal, it wasn't exclusive . . . Hell, I don't know what the fuck it was, but we both know that's the truth. Whatever's between us, it's been there since the first night we met.

sometimes the nastiest shit happens behind the prettiest doors, while everyone laughs and smiles and pretends everything's okay. Here's the thing about my world. We're fucked up. We own it. We take care of business and move on.

I swear to you, sometimes the nastiest shit happens behind the prettiest doors, while everyone laughs and smiles and pretends everything's okay. Here's the thing about my world. We're fucked up. We own it. We take care of business and move on.

Because I swear to you, sometimes the nastiest shit happens behind the prettiest doors, while everyone laughs and smiles and pretends everything's okay.

three men can keep a secret, but only if two of them are dead.

What good is your reality, when justice fails and dishonesty is glossed over and the ones who keep faith suffer .... What good is your reality then?

I never promised you a rose garden.  I never promised you perfect justice…and I never promised you peace or happiness... I never promise lies, and the rose-garden world of perfection is a lie…

The rose-garden world of perfection is a lie... and a bore, too!

And what does that signify to you?" he said, perhaps forgetting that if she could speak truly to the world, she would not be a mental patient.

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

I speak as I must and cannot be silent.

ste rosario de cuentas infelices calla más de lo que dice pero dice la verdad.

Para mentiras las de la realidad promete todo pero nada te da, yo nunca de mentí más que por verte reir. Menos piadosas que las del corazón son las mentiras de la diosa razón, yo solo te conté media verdad al revés (que no es igual que media mentira). Mejor que yo miente la necesidad; sabe de sobra como hacerte llorar; mi crimen fue vestir de azul al príncipe gris.

Es mentira que sepan a vinagre los besos sin amor.

Es mentira que nunca te he mentido, es mentira que no te mienta más; es mentira que un bulo repetido merezca ser verdad.

Repito que… es mentira el cristal con que me miras; es mentira que dude de dudar; es mentira que más de cien mentiras no digan la verdad.

Pídele cuentas a la pura verdad que no se pringa, que no tiene piedad; yo sólo me colgué medallas que no gané.

I feel an obligation to set the record straight. Actors that say they're affected by something, that it changes their life, that they take it home with them, they're just trying to get nominated for an Oscar!

The living always think that monsters roar and gnash their teeth. But I've seen that real monsters can be friendly; they can smile, and they can say please and thank you like everyone else. Real monsters can appear to be kind. Sometimes they can be inside us.

Manatees are real, mermaids aren't. Rhinoceroses exist and sea monsters don't. There are no more sea serpents guarding deadly whirlpools. There are pirates, yes, but there is nothing romantic about them. The rest is all stories, and stories have been put in their place.

The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies