Truth

"Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure."

"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."

"We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."

"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."

"People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all."

"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up."

"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."

"Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said."

"It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing."

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."

"The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is."

"That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth."

"Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it."

"Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay" we say. "I'm alright". But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when you realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer--it's a question. Even now, I wonder how much of my life is convinced."

"The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you."

"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."

"The only truth is music."

"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."

"Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real."