All Quotes By Tag: Truth
“In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.”
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“Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books.”
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“The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things.”
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“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”
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“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”
“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
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“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.”
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“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
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“…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.”
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“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”
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“The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies.”
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“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.”
“The color of truth is grey.”
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“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.”
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