All Quotes By Tag: Truth

“Tolerance! The virtue that makes one bite his tongue so that he can tear out his hair.”

“I play with the fire of my own truth,” she told me, “I will burn for the things I love.”

“The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity.”

“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.”

“I shot up,now as angry and frusterated as him.I had a feeling if i stayed, we’d both snap. In and undertone, I murmured,”this isnt over.i won’t give up on you.”” I’ve given up on you,”he said back,voice also soft. “Love fades. Mine has.”

“Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that’s the truth.”

“She’s a manner of speaking.Even the flowers don’t come back, or the green leaves.There are new flowers, new green leaves.There are other beautiful days.Nothing comes back, nothing repeats itself, because everything is real.”

“Ask a deeply religious Christian if he’d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don’t seem so bad lately.”

“And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.”

“Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn’t fit.”

“And the truth must finally lie in that which every oppressed individual feels within himself but hasn’t the courage to express”

“The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.”

“Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood.”

“It’s easier to fake it. When you fake it for sixteen years, it becomes part of you, something you don’t think about.”

“I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.”