Truth
Quotes - The truth will set you free
“So
you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't
you?"
"No,"
I told him. "I'm not."
"Well,
that's good to know, I guess."
"I'm
not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's
not how I meant it, anyways."
"How'd
you mean it, then?"
"I
just...I don't always say what I feel."
"Why
not?"
"Because
the truth sometimes hurts," I said.
"Yeah,"
he said. "So do lies, though.”
―
Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
“A
truth that's told with bad intent
Beats
all the lies you can invent.”
―
William Blake, Auguries of Innocence
“I
have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt,
those who keep silence hurt more.”
― C.
S. Lewis
“No
persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are
wrong.”
―
François de La Rochefoucauld
“Illegal
aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.”
―
Robert Orben
“The
truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”
―
David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
“Thinking
something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”
―
Michelle Hodkin, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
“Better
a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
―
Edward Abbey
“To
be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering
that can border on miraculous.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
“All
good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened
and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to
you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy,
the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If
you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”
―
Ernest Hemingway
“All
right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need...
fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY?
AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE
THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth
fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES.
AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So
we can believe the big ones?"
YES.
JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're
not the same at all!"
YOU
THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND
SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE
MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS
SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE
UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes,
but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY
POINT EXACTLY.”
―
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
“The
only truth is music.”
―
Jack Kerouac
“Most
men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.”
―
George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Usually
we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say.
"I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't
get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an
answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced.”
―
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
“It
is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.”
―
George Washington
“Sometimes
it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”
―
Hayley Williams
