Truth Quotes

Consider the sunlight. You may see it is near, yet if you follow it from world to world you will never catch it in your hands. Then you may describe it as far away and, lo, you will see it just before your eyes. Follow it and, behold, it escapes you; run from it and it follows you close. You can neither possess it nor have done with it. From this example you can understand how it is with the true Nature of all things and, henceforth, there will be no need to grieve or to worry about such things.

~ Huang Po

Amazing how the most obvious things escape your notice. Maybe the truth is exactly the things you don't notice. Maybe the aim to see and tell the truth is inherently futile, a contradiction in terms, and it's exactly those things about oneself and the world that are invisible because they are woven into one's fabric that are the truth. Just like a person can't see his own eyes. You search and search and search, and the truth, by definition, is exactly that which you don't find. You don't see the truth, you are the truth. Habits of attention are reflexes of the complete character of an individual. And how could you notice your own habits of attention? By writing. Well, at their most profound level? It doesn't make any difference. That is the point. It's like Zen. The truth is not straining for the truth, the truth is in effortlessness. The truth is in being, not trying. Aw hell, that doesn't leave much too chew on.

~ Richard Hell

Lately I have come to believe that an as yet undiscovered human need and even a property of matter is the desire for revelation. The truth within us has a way of coming out despite all conscious efforts to conceal it. I have heard stories from those in the generation after the war, all speaking of the same struggle to ferret truth from the silence of their parents so that they themselves could begin to live.

~ Susan Griffin

It was hidden in things Adam already knew, half-glimpsed behind a forest made of thoughts.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies. Sabina despised literature in which people give away all kinds of intimate secrets about themselves and their friends. A man who loses his privacy loses everything, Sabina thought. And a man who gives it up on his own free will is a monster. That is why Sabina did not suffer in the least from having to keep her love a secret. On the contrary, only by doing so could she live the truth.

~ Milan Kundera

Every secret has a expiration date...

~ Josiyah Martin

Then the truth began to reveal itself, as it always does. truth seeks the light of day,needs it just like we need air, and so it finds ways to seep out of the sturdiest. most skillfully hidden boxes--even those buried deeply in the hearts of the dead.

~ Wendy Webb

It would be a dreadful thing to tell anyone about it, for it would destroy some fragile structure of truth. It was truth that might be shattered by division.

~ John Steinbeck

But where corpses were buried secretly, there the grass grows thick; such signs (and there are ever so many others!) may be read by those to whom truth is more important than beauty.

~ William T. Vollmann

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.

~ Winston S. Churchill

His shirt is rumpled. His fingers, long and slender, are stained yellow at the tips from smoking. His mind is always on something else. My mind is busy, too, reading every cue and signal, keeping track of all the things that cannot be discussed, that must not be remembered, that have to be erased.

~ Kristen Iversen

Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable...

~ Sue Monk Kidd

The big secret about Art is that no one wants it to be true.

~ Adam Phillips

We can only speak the truth that we know at the time it is known.

~ Sharon Lee

If you want to make God laugh, tell him-her your plan

~ Anonymous

If a nation wants to be deceived, let it be deceived! Through this way, they will learn the truth after many deceptions and pains! Truth and time are the greatest teachers, they are the greatest instructors!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!

~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

Problems and problems... and problems and the whole truth was told.(Holiday Engagement 2011 - Movie)

~ Deyth Banger

To solve your problems, stop worrying.

~ Debasish Mridha

When you think you have a big problem, step back. Envision yourself as a small dot on this blue marble we call Earth, that's orbiting the Sun at the centre of our Solar System, that also becomes a tiny dot our Milky Way galaxy, that is all but invisible in our vast Universe. How big is that problem really?

~ M. James Airey

The moment you tell someone else is the moment you become a whiner and the world’s smallest violin starts to play. The truth is, we all have problems.

~ J.a. Redmerski

The secret is...good and evil are a myth. There is only the selfish, selfless, and those in between.

~ Belart Wright

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right. The obvious, the silly, and the true had got to be defended. Truisms are true, hold on to that! The solid world exists, its laws do not change. Stones are hard, water is wet, objects unsupported fall towards the earth’s centre.

~ George Orwell

(Speaking about ponies engaging in a game of running around and chasing a ball with imaginary riders)Along with everything else about it, it seemed to be a parable for life. Going forwards and backwards and round in circles, striving ever forward only to have to run like crazy backwards to get the ball again, realizing that your enemy is after the same goal and you're actually helping him toward it and getting roughed up and possibly killed while you're at it but still feeling the comradeship of being in the game all together.

~ Susan Trott

What is your type?I shrugged. Non-existent.

~ C.d. Reiss

The only candid thing in life is time, nothing else flows seamlessly

~ Akul Singh

Personality rise as comparison dies.

~ Oliver Faurholt Nielsen

As you grow wiser, so does your personality.

~ Oliver Faurholt Nielsen

A lot of people who are straight-shooting…they’re only happy to be so blunt when talking about others. They’re not so upfront about who they are, what flaws they have, and what their issues are.

~ Suzanne Wright

The clothes or accessories you do or don't wear are a statement, a reflection of yourself; that is why you should always try to wear 'who you are' not anyone else.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

I Prefer Reading Eyes As Eyes Are Very Powerful. It Can Reveal The Ins And Outs of A Man....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

Writers haven't got any rockets to blast off. We don't even trundle the most insignificant auxiliary vehicle. We haven't got any military might. So what can literature do in the face of the merciless onslaught of open violence? One word of truth outweighs the whole world.

~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It is a truth universally acknowledged, he’d mused, that most people will never find their ‘call me Ishmael’.

~ Django Wylie

Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary.

~ Mark Z. Danielewski

Every misogynist came out of a woman.

~ Mat Johnson

Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.

~ James S.a. Corey

It is an indication of truth's jealousy that it has not made for anyone a path to it, and that it has not deprived anyone of the hope of attaining it, and it has left people running in the deserts of perplexity and drowning in the seas of doubt; and he who thinks he has attained it, it dissociates itself from, and he who thinks he has dissociated himself from it has lost his way.

~ Naguib Mahfouz

Doubt and faith are parts of human experience, whether one views them as right or wrong. Also doubt and faith are instrumental to grasping truth in some very obvious senses.

~ Leviak B. Kelly

Maybe nothing is completely true, and not even that.

~ Multatuli