Truth Quotes

If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

~ Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Without balance, a life is no longer worth the effort.

~ Olen Steinhauer

Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification, translation and decoration […]; truths are illusions of which we have forgotten that they are illusions, metaphors which have become worn by frequent use and have lost all sensuous vigour […]. Yet we still do not know where the drive to truth comes from, for so far we have only heard about the obligation to be truthful which society imposes in order to existfrom, On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

It's not a lie if you don't tell the truth.But it's fucked up if you falsify the fact.

~ Toba Beta

Why do we weep once we know that everything will be alright? We weep because the only way everything could ever be alright is in fiction. We weep because what we've seen can't be true, no matter how badly we wish it were. We weep at the truth.

~ Adam Levin

There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer.

~ Toba Beta

I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?

~ Clarice Lispector

I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty obvious to me that more often than not the batteries fade, and sometimes what you knew even goes out with a bang when you try and call on it, just like a light bulb cracking off when you throw the switch.

~ Lucy Grealy

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

~ Patrick White

A day without laughter is like living in darkness; you try to find your way around, but you can't see clearly.

~ Emily Mitchell

truth is a friendthat asks for loyaltyand acceptancethen it enters our heartsdissolving the boundariesfreeing us from lonliness

~ Nirmala

In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

~ Dean Koontz

The ordinary can be like medicine.

~ Sherman Alexie

When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.

~ Orson Scott Card

She hadn't lied. She hadn't betrayed anyone's trust; still, she felt she had done something wrong. Or rather, she had not yet done the right thing. Was there a difference between these two sins?

~ Michael David Lukas

You'd challenge me and lose. You know it, I know it, but you'd still do it. Sometimes your sense of honor confuses the hell out of me.

~ Seanan Mcguire

In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the external man. When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.

~ John Paul Ii

Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth.

~ Leo Tolstoy

I want to take you until you are boneless. I want to drain you of strength. I want to fill you and take my fill of you. My dear, Ivy, I want to devour you. I want your juices on my toung, flooding my mouth. I want your wetness on my face, your scent covering me. I want your blood in my veins.

~ Kathryn Smith

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

~ Steve Martin

In the pit of her stomach she realized that everything she raged against on Saturday night-- the restrictions, rules, and guidelines-- was born of an ancient fervor. Every rule ever established, from the beginning of time, invited mutiny.

~ Robin Jones Gunn

Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks--

~ Jeanne Duprau

A disciple: I am worried about human suffering all over the world. What is the solution?Spiritual leader: The solution to our miseries lie within central atom of our being, ‘I’. Once this central atom transcends to ‘WE’, human sufferings can be resolved.

~ Santosh Kalwar

This nation is like all the others that have been spewed upon the earth--ready to shout for any cause that will tickle its vanity or fill its pocket. What a hell of a heaven it will be when they get all these hypocrites assembled there!- Letter to J. H. Twichell, 1/29/1901

~ Mark Twain

Leaning forward in your chair when someone is trying to squeeze behind you isn't enough. You also have to move the chair.

~ Ellen Degeneres

Friends ask you questions, enemies question you.

~ Criss Jami

The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.

~ Mike Norton

The most inefficient and self-harming thing a person can do is go out looking for love. Let it find you when the time is right and you're out doing what you love to do. Only then will you find it in its truest form.

~ A.j. Darkholme

Beware: open-mindedness will often say, 'Everything is permissible except a sharp opinion.

~ Criss Jami

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there.

~ Bart D. Ehrman

There is no experience like having children.’ That’s all. There is no substitute for it. You cannot do it with a friend. You cannot do it with a lover. If you want the experience of having complete responsibility for another human being, and to learn how to love and bond in the deepest way, then you should have children.

~ Mitch Albom

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay, falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

~ Tacitus

Each time a person passes by you and you say 'hello', imagine that person turning into a candle. The more positivity, love and light you reflect, the more light is mirrored your way. Sharing beautiful hellos is the quickest way to earn spiritual brownie points. You should start seeing hellos as small declarations of faith. Every time you say hello to a stranger, your heart acknowledges over and over again that we are all family.

~ Suzy Kassem

Always listen to the voice of your conscience. If your conscience conflicts with your faith, question everything.

~ Suzy Kassem

What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.

~ Alberto Caeiro

We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen, they delay our progress for true change. Every person, molecule and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong and fail to remind them of what is right.

~ Suzy Kassem

There was a time when skepticism was an act of rebellion. Since to a degree I both believe in evolution and have faith, I can only conclude that, as prophesied, to have faith will someday be an act of rebellion.

~ Criss Jami

Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.

~ Criss Jami

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Today I wore a pair of faded old jeans and a plain grey baggy shirt. I hadn't even taken a shower, and I did not put on an ounce of makeup. I grabbed a worn out black oversized jacket to cover myself with even though it is warm outside. I have made conscious decisions lately to look like less of what I felt a male would want to see. I want to disappear.

~ Sierra D. Waters