Truth

"Knowing the truth is not always a kindness."

"Say not, “I have found the truth,” but rather, “I have found a truth.”Say not, “I have found the path of the soul.” Say rather, “I have met the soul walking upon my path.”For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The soul unfolds itself, like a lotus of countless petals."

"Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space."

"I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance."

"Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life"

"Macy: “In Truth,” I said, “there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth.”Wes: “How do you win?” he asked Macy: “That,” I said, “is such a boy question."

"Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened."

"Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."

"Hypocrites get offended by the truth."

"If you never tell anyone the truth about yourself, eventually you start to forget. The love, the heartbreak, the joy, the despair, the things I did that were good, the things I did that were shameful--if I kept them all inside, my memories of them would start to disappear. And then I would disappear."

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

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

"I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then," he added in a lower tone, "I ate my own wickedness."

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

"I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true"

"In darkness God's truth shines most clear."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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