Quotes About Truth

Anecdotes don't make good stories. Dig down so far that what finally comes out is not even what you thought it was about.

If this were fiction, as I said, it would be too much, but it is true.

I went around the house to the back door thinking, I have been to a dance and a boy has walked me home and kissed me. It was all true. My life was possible.

this is not a story, only life.

The preference most of them had for seeing through their camera, rather than looking at the real thing, and so on.

That was the kind of lie I hope to never have to tell again, the contempt I hoped never to have to show, about the things that really mattered to me. And in order to do that, I would pretty well have to steer clear of people I used to know.

Hay algo que creo que deberías saber. Esta puede ser una de las frases más desagradables que puede escuchar una persona. Existen muchas probabilidades de que lo que deberías saber te resulte gravoso, y de que se insinúe que otras personas han tenido que soportar la carga mientras que tú te has librado todo ese tiempo.

Mentira nenhuma, afinal, era mais violenta que as mentiras que nós contamos a nós mesmos e aí desgraçadamente temos que continuar contando para segurar aquele vômito todo no estômago, comendo a gente por dentro.

She doesn't mistake that for reality, and neither does she mistake anything else for reality, and this is how she knows that she is sane. Meneseteung

Everyone was wrong. She was not timid or acquiescent or natural or pure. When you died, of course, these wrong opinions were all there was left.

?ã tá»›i tình tr?ng trÆ°á»›c Ä'ây chÆ°a t?ng có. Buông trôi theo dòng. Cho Ä'i. Má»™t s? ng??i cho Ä'i, má»™t s? ng??i không. Rào c?n gi?a cái bên trong và bên ngoài c?a tâm trí b?n b? ??p ??. Sá»± chân thá»±c Ä'òi h?i Ä'i?u ?y.

It seems so much the truth it is the truth; it's what I believe.

verdad, joven, si usted no lo sabe, no debería tener un trabajo de tanta responsabilidad.

There are facts can poison you dead as arsenic. I have long known this to be true. There are facts can get you drunker than sipping whiskey straight.

Since then I've always thought that under rape in the dictionary it should tell the truth. It is not just forcible intercourse; rape means to inhabit and destroy everything.

Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: She's never coming home. A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.

Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.

After telling the hard facts to anyone from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes. Often it is awe or admiration, sometimes it is repulsion, once or twice it has been fury hurled directly at me for reasons I remain unsure of.

I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.

Exactly,' she said, and made her point as simply as that. There wasn't a lot of bullshit in my heaven. ~pg 8

For Lorenz, virgins were not a part of his world. He was skeptical of many things I said. Later, when the serology reports proved that what I had said was not a lie, that I had been a virgin, and that I was telling the truth, he could not respect me enough. I think he felt responsible, somehow. It was, after all, in his world where this hideous thing had happened to me. A world of violent crime.

Had my brother really seen me somehow, or was he merely a boy telling beautiful lies?

Things happen, I thought, and we respond. That's what it all comes down to. To believe anything else, as far as I could tell, was simply an illusion.

If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.