Famous Quotes

All should be laid open to you without reserve, for there is not a truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world.

~ Thomas Jefferson

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

~ Louis-Ferdinand Céline

The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

~ John F. Kennedy

When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.

~ Cassandra Clare

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

~ David Levithan

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

~ Blaise Pascal

Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you

~ Lemmy Kilmister

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to 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.

~ Milan Kundera

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

~ Gregory David Roberts

I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.

~ Anne Brontë

Just because it's fiction doesn't mean it's any less true.

~ Jodi Picoult

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

~ Isaac Newton

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made contact with other women while we examined the words to fit a world in which we all believed, bridging our differences.

~ Audre Lorde

That is the curse of lying, Sister. Once you place that crown of the liar upon your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

~ Terry Goodkind

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

~ C.s. Lewis

When one realises one is asleep, at that moment one is already half-awake.

~ P.d. Ouspensky

It was queer how sometimes a child's innocent eyes can see things that grown men are blind to.

~ George R.r. Martin

All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

~ Suzanne Collins

In the cherry blossom's shadethere's no such thingas a stranger.

~ Kobayashi Issa

The laughter of the world is merely loneliness pathetically trying to reassure itself.

~ Neal A. Maxwell

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

~ Anaïs Nin

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

~ Terry Pratchett

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

~ Joe Abercrombie

The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to get yourself under control, you know just what you have to say to hide the truth, and you speak very convincingly, and nothing in your face twitches to give you away. But the truth, alas, has been disturbed by the question, and it rises up from the depths of your soul to flicker in your eyes and all is lost.

~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.

~ L.m. Montgomery

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you're likely to turn into one of those unkempt, sloppy dressers who sag beneath the weight of the two hundred political buttons they wear pinned to their coats and knapsacks.

~ David Sedaris

I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain.

~ Audre Lorde

I was very afraid at the beginning, until Master told me that pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.

~ Deepak Chopra

You speak from your heart, young Firepaw. This will make you a stronger warrior one day. said LionheartTigerclaw growled. Or it might make him give in to kittypet weakness right at the moment of attack

~ Erin Hunter

[I]t is the wine that leads me on,the wild winethat sets the wisest man to singat the top of his lungs,laugh like a fool – it drives theman to dancing... it eventempts him to blurt out storiesbetter never told.

~ Homer

Falsehood is never in words, it is in things.

~ Italo Calvino

It was odd, (Tessa thought), what brought out tenderness in people.

~ Cassandra Clare

My choice of Muhammad to lead the list of the world's most influential persons may surprise some readers and may be questioned by others, but he was the only man in history who was supremely successful on both the religious and secular level.

~ Michael H. Hart

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

~ Albert Einstein

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

~ Stephen King

Some of us walk around with a necklace of hope, an armour of sanity, but at the end of the day, they always come off. We reveal our naked, vulnerable, real selves.

~ Karen Quan

All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about when he was born. What you get won’t be the truth: it will be a story. And nothing is more telling than a story.

~ Diane Setterfield

There hadn’t been one specific moment. It was like gradualy waking up. You go from being asleep to the space between dreaming and awake and then into consciousness. It’s a slow process, but when you’re awake, there’s no mistaking it. There was no mistaking that it had been love.

~ Jenny Han

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find.

~ Philip K. Dick

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to.

~ Tom Bissell