Truth Quotes

A stagecoach passed by on the road and went on;And the road didn’t become more beautiful or even more ugly.That’s human action on the outside world.We take nothing away and we put nothing back, we pass by and we forget;And the sun is always punctual every day.(5/7/14)

~ Alberto Caeiro

Being truthful is the new beautiful.

~ Suzy Kassem

We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses.

~ Criss Jami

Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they’re water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

~ Alberto Caeiro

There are no roses in my yard: what wind brought you?But I suddenly come from far away. I was sick for a moment.No wind whatsoever brought you now.Now you’re here.What you were isn’t you, or else the whole rose would be here.

~ Alberto Caeiro

Chainschains that hold me to the groundchains that keep me solidly boundchains that tether my heart to youchains that only one truth...

~ Muse

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

~ Jenna Alatari

I saw that there is no Nature,That Nature doesn’t exist,That there are hills, valleys, plains,That there are trees, flowers, weeds,That there are rivers and stones,But there is not a whole these belong to,That a real and true wholenessIs a sickness of our ideas.

~ Alberto Caeiro

As followers of Christ, we are to be careful not to remain victims of the many cultural presuppositions of who he is, and what he teaches, insofar as taking for granted our own caricatures of him. Let it boil in both mind and heart the question, 'If Jesus were to appear today, how many of us would actually recognize him and his teachings (or would it simply be a recount of his first visit)?

~ Criss Jami

I carry my adornments on my soul.I do not dress up like a popinjay;But inwardly, I keep my daintiness.I do not bear with me, by any chance,An insult not yet washed away- a conscienceYellow with unpurged bile- an honor frayedTo rags, a set of scruples badly worn.I go caparisoned in gems unseen,Trailing white plumes of freedom, garlandedWith my good name- no figure of a man,But a soul clothed in shining armor, hungWith deeds for decorations, twirling- thus-A bristling wit, and swinging at my sideCourage, and on the stones of this old townMaking the sharp truth ring, like golden spurs!

~ Edmond Rostand

Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

~ Jonathan Anthony Burkett

Worrying is stupid. It's like walking around with an umbrella waiting for it to rain.

~ Wiz Khalifa

the gods play nofavorites.

~ Charles Bukowski

The truth is, it's not the act that I'm scared of, but giving myself so entirely to someone. As long as there are lines to draw and boundaries to cling to, I can pretend that I'm safe from the wanting that threatens to consume me. I'm separate, still all my own. But after...What then? What comes after, when he has that much of me, to do with as he chooses? When I have him. Will it ever be enough?

~ Abigail Haas

Love life comes last in my life. I put real life first.

~ Cyc Jouzy

In search of Truth the hopeful zealot goes,But all the sadder tums, the more he knows!

~ H.p. Lovecraft

I thought I had everything until I found you.

~ Turcois Ominek

Anyway, the trick is simply this: No matter what happens, keep your heart open. Wide open. The heart is made of love, and love is indestructible, and only the arrogance of ego would presume that it requires protection. To open your heart is to reduce your ego, and this is the only magic that is ever required to experience the naked truth.

~ Tony Vigorito

People need to stop accepting the evidence of reality, and start questioning it.

~ Lionel Suggs

God existed before every religion, He exists in spite of all religions.

~ Danail Hristov

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

~ Carson Mccullers

It is not always a problem finding the truth, it is however sometimes a problem accepting it.

~ Sunny-Drunk

Peer beyond the wall of doubt to embrace the possibilities.

~ Truth Devour

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

~ William Faulkner

He recognized it and knew it. In others—clients, witnesses, or sometimes adversaries, he had seen or heard it: A gesture, a phrase, or a tone which exposed unintended truth in the beat of a second.

~ Jackson Burnett

Never submit we are all equals

~ Heather Nelson

The fact is not kill entire populations is able to infect entire regions of land and control the only cure.

~ Ted Dekker

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad.

~ Alexandra Bogdanovic

You can't be spontaneous within reason.

~ Brittany Delabarrera

Dirty or clean, crumpled or finely creased, you are still priceless to those who Love you.

~ Norlito Baclayen

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained in traditional religion simply wasn't true]Was I to lie in order to teach the truth? ...Was I to repeat these words? It was impossible. It was certain they would stick in my throat. On these grounds the separation was decided by me.

~ Felix Adler

A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.

~ Christopher Vogler

time does stop sometimes, you see everyone passing by, following their destiny and the destination it is leading, and you conclude its better where you are then moving again....often history repeats itself before it changes.....

~ Prashant

One's rebuke engraves itself upon the mind more than one's praise.

~ Seth D.

It won't hurt until you feel it.

~ Lovely Goyal

if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

~ Lovely Goyal

Do you like Rhiannon more than me? ... They're two completely different concepts. When a girl asks you a question like that, there's no way you can be honest. They say they want you to be honest, but then they get all upset when you are. You can't win. There's no way to win. There are questions you just can't answer without manipulating the truth.

~ Susane Colasanti

Our power lies in our small daily choices, one after another, to create eternal ripples of a life well lived.

~ Mollie Marti

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

~ Italo Calvino

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

~ John Steinbeck