Famous Quotes

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

~ David Foster Wallace

I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.

~ Al Pacino

The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort

~ Katherine Dunn

An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

~ E.a. Bucchianeri

Most of what I say is complete truth. My edit button is broken.

~ Myra Mcentire

You should not honor men more than truth.

~ Plato

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

~ Hermann Hesse

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

~ Alison Goodman

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

~ Charlaine Harris

Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they're used.

~ Max Brooks

The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject... And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.

~ Seneca

If you believe what you like in the Gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the Gospel you believe, but yourself.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

You take people, you put them on a journey, you give them peril, you find out who they really are.

~ Joss Whedon

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights, you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

~ Jodi Picoult

One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.

~ Al David

A man will never love you or treat you as well as a store. If a man doesn’t fit, you can’t exchange him seven days later for a gorgeous cashmere sweater. And a store always smells good. A store can awaken a lust for things you never even knew you needed. And when your fingers first grasp those shiny, new bags…

~ Sophie Kinsella

The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.

~ Laurell K. Hamilton

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

...when two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.

~ Richard Dawkins

In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.

~ Kristin Cashore

I was in my bed trying to figure out why sometimes you can wake up and go back to sleep and other times you can't

~ Stephen Chbosky

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them.

~ Rachel Maddow

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

~ Clive Barker

In the calculus of feelings, you never really know how one person's absence will affect you more than another's.

~ Gayle Forman

What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in.

~ Simone De Beauvoir

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming creed of Christ. There is – I repeat it – a difference; and it is a good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of separation between them.

~ Charlotte Brontë

To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.

~ George Orwell

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.

~ Khaled Hosseini

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

~ Meister Eckhart

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.

~ Erica Jong

I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.

~ Isaac Bashevis Singer

Before you enbark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

~ Sara Shepard

Some things aren't meant to be known. Only believed.

~ Mary E. Pearson

A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

~ Scott Lynch

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.

~ Mark Helprin

In darkness God's truth shines most clear.

~ Corrie Ten Boom

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

~ Criss Jami

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

~ Victor Hugo

Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.

~ José N. Harris