Quotes About Truth

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

We spend a good part of our lives trying desperately to convince ourselves as well as everybody else that we know more than we really do.

You need not bring life to the scripture. You should draw life from the scripture.

I'll tell you no lies. The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

Dark is a way and light is a place, / Heaven that never was / Nor will be ever is always true.

If you dream that you are flying and continue to believe that you can fly even after you wake up, that becomes a problem.

Causes and conditions" is just another way of expressing the word "karma." Merit is any karmic activity that takes you closer to the realization of truth, toward love and compassion.

Here, in this book, I will try to show that the guru is actually like the horizon. A horizon is apparent—a line where earth and sky appear to meet. But in reality, they never meet. There is only an illusion of an ending point, a point of reference where we can stand and measure and assess. In this way, the guru is like a horizon between wisdom and method, myth and truth, science and faith. D

You're lying to me half the time, and I'm lying to you all the time.

Writing is both mask and unveiling.

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer.... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

and nothing quite so least as truth—i say though hate were why men breathe—because my father lived his soullove is the whole and more than all

unless statistics lie he wasmore brave than me:more blond than you.

What I have always loved best about the history of the world is that it is true. That all the extraordinary things we read were no less real than you and I are today.

No one is entitled to the truth.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken.

Now, let me ask you this. Who killed the girls? The dragon? Or their father?

Other people apologize and don't mean t "Sorry, but you shouldn't have..." or "Sorry, but I just didn't..." They apologize while telling you that they were right all along, which is the opposite of an actual apology.

Telling this story will be painful. In fact, I do not know if I can tell it truthfully, though I'll try. I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family.

It's not objective. It's subjective." Katya hooks her bra behind her back. "It's just what you think, not the truth.

I had lost my dad. I had come here to this island from a house of tears and falsehood and I saw Gat, and I saw that rose in his hand, and in that one moment, with the sunlight from the window shining in on him, the apples on the kitchen counter, the smell of wood and ocean in the air, I did call it love.

Everything he said sounded wonderful, but it wasn't true. I was desperately insecure and I did care what people thought. Jackson wasn't really talking about me. He was talking about an idea of me he'd concocted in his head. As soon as he remembered me and my true weaknesses in the clear light of day, he'd be as cruel this time as he had been the last.

No one in this family can see what's right in front of them.