Truth Quotes - The only way you
can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read
“Seldom, very seldom, does
complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that
something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.”
― Jane Austen, Emma
“The only way you can write the
truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other
person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin
excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of
ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand
erasing it.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Blind
Assassin
“Anyone who is capable of getting
themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s
Guide to the Galaxy
“There is no greatness where
there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
“Boredom: the desire for
desires.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“The truth doesn't always set you
free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies”
― Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith
“I believe that truth has only
one face: that of a violent contradiction.”
― Georges Bataille, Violent
Silence: Celebrating Georges Bataille
“Wanting to be liked can get in
the way of truth.”
― Delia Ephron, Sister Mother
Husband Dog: Etc.
“How hurtful it can be to deny
one's true self and live a life of lies just to appease others.”
― June Ahern
“Somehow, we'll find it. The
balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we
simply have to be satisfied with who we are.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Hero of
Ages
“Never hide things from hardcore
thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most
painful truths.”
― Criss Jami
“It is an illusion that youth is
happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are
wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled
into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised
and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books
they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their
elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness,
prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all
they have read and all they have been told are lies, lies, lies; and each
discovery is another nail driven into the body on the cross of life.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human
Bondage
“I quote others only in order the
better to express myself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The
Complete Essays
“I can't believe I said it out
loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and
embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and
vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.”
― Melina Marchetta, Saving
Francesca
“I’m not sure. But there’s
something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates
a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a
terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment,
tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that
the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in
the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the
light.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me
“Our truest life is when we are
in dreams awake.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“I felt like an animal, and
animals don’t know sin, do they?”
― Jess C. Scott, Wicked Lovely
“A man's true character comes out
when he's drunk.”
― Charlie Chaplin
“I am certain of nothing but the
holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of the Imagination.”
― John Keats
“Muhammad has always been
standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human
being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God
and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“I have a theory that the truth
is never told during the nine-to-five hours.”
― Hunter S. Thompson
“The most fundamental aggression
to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain
ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves
honestly and gently.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall
Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
“Mistakes are, after all, the
foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at
least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. ”
― Carl G. Jung
“In a room where
people unanimously maintain
a conspiracy of silence,
one word of truth
sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz
