Quotes About Truth

It is true I suffer migraines since my accident. It is true I do not suffer fools.

ME, JOHNNY, MIRREN, and Gat. Gat, Mirren, Johnny, and me. The family calls us four the Liars, and probably we deserve it.

In the theater," Adelaide went on, wanting him to understand why she found this so interesting, "your audience doesn't expect things to look real. Like, you can't have a real car on the stage, anyway, can you? So instead, you make something obviously artificial. You just create the feeling. And maybe the thing you make, instead of looking real, feels true.

We are liars. We are beautiful and privileged. We are cracked and broken." ? E. Lockhart, We Were Liars

This is the only time I will ever tell, I say to myself.

Grow up, Cadence. See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

There is no point to writing fiction without risks. I would rather anger a reader than bore her. I would rather speak my truth and be laughed at or ignored than stick to what is easy and familiar.

there is very little you can change. you need to accept the world as it is

It's the opposite of love." Me. Talking without planning to. "Hmm? How so?" "People think of hearts when they think of love, but a heart is a bloody organ in the body. It doesn't have any emotions. It's like a metaphor for love that has nothing to do with what love actually is.

Open their souls. Open their veins. Wipe off their smiles.

But I know Downyflake only makes cake doughnuts. No glazed. No Boston cream. No jelly. Why are they lying?

Our family has always loved fairy tales. There is something ugly and true in them. They hurt, they are strange, but we cannot stop reading them, over and over.

I had kissed an unimportant boy or three by now. 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.

HERE IS THE truth

I have been a liar all my life, you see. It's not uncommon in our family." "They're doing just as I asked them to. As we Sinclairs always do. Pretending. Lying. Trying to have a good time.

La tragedia no es glamurosa

See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be.

I may change my opinion on the same subject, the same event, ten, twenty, thirty times in the course of a single day. And to think that each time, like the worst impostor, I dare utter word "truth"!

O não-saber é o fundamento de tudo, ele cria o todo através de um acto que repete a cada instante, produz este mundo e qualquer outro, uma vez que está sempre a tomar como real aquilo que o não é. O não-saber é o gigantesco equívoco que serve de base a todas as nossas verdades, o não-saber é mais antigo e mais poderoso do que todos os deuses juntos.

I was brought up to be honest; the trouble is it gets me nowhere." Liking her better, he smiled and said, "It'll get us to heaven." "Will it?" "If heaven existed." "Do you not believe in heaven, Mr. Fielding, may I ask?" she said, looking at him shyly. "I do not. Yet I believe that honesty gets us there.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

Don't believe those lies about intellectual people. They're only written to soothe the majority.

Remember nothing of the sort! Built by faith indeed! That simply means the workmen weren't paid properly. And as for the frescoes, I see no truth in them. Look at that fat man in blue! He must weigh as much as I do, and he is shooting into the sky like an air- balloon.

I am the means and not the end. I am the food and not the life. Stand by yourself, as that boy has stood. I cannot save you. For poetry is a spirit; and they that would worship it must worship in spirit and in truth.