Quotes About Truth

Whoever gives his true self away does do with words

What did we know about those closest to us, really? No one ever dared to speak plainly about desire; no one said the word out loud.

The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day. If you'd prefer to remain in the dark, I would understand.

Why can't people say what they mean at the time?

Is there more to the story?" Vincent asked. "There's more to every story," his aunt told him.

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures.

This was the virtue of the dark: you were who you had always been, only no one could see you.

Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think, but once they're said aloud there's no way to make them disappear.

You should never trust a liar so you should never trust a man of honor. Those two are the worst of mankind.

Honesty was like a stone, dropped and irretrievable once it was spoken aloud

Certainly, as a reader, I had always discovered the deepest truths in fiction; it was through reading novels that I learned about the world, a world not only of fact but of imagination and emotion.

Mrs. Jones leaned in close. She smelled of wool and peppermint. There's a man somewhere who wanted you to believe in something...

Writers don't choose their craft; they need to write in order to face the world.

You don't hide what you think is beautiful. You hide what is broken. You hide when you're a monster.

It was easy to lie to people who still believed in the truth. Only days afterward, each person who had filled out this list was deported to a death camp.

Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out and a lie is always a lie no matter how prettily told.

Some people are who you think they are. Some people hide the wolf inside of them, but you can hear them howl.

Was it possible to know anyone, truly?

Eddie had come to understand that what a man saw and what actually existed in the natural world often were contradictory. The human eye was not capable of true sight, for it was constrained by its own humanness, clouded by regret, and opinion, and faith.

Did you not think this was what the world was like? the Man from the Valley said to me.

Some people believe that if you don't open your eyes to sorrow and you don't talk about it, you can pretend it never happened.

I could tell people anything I wanted to and whatever I told them, that would be the truth as far as they were concerned. Whoever I said I was, well, then that's who I'd be.

You want me to lie to you? said McKay. I shrugged. Why not? I didn't mind lies.