Quotes on “truth”

[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.

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

To hate others is ugly.To hate yourself is uglier.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand

You don't fall in love with someone because it's convenient.

Don’t talk like that, Dill, said Aunt Alexandra. It’s not becoming to a child. It’s – cynical.I ain’t cynical, Miss Alexandra. Tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?The way you tell it, it is.

Some negroes lie, some are immoral, some negro men are not be trusted around women - black and white. But this is a truth that applies to the human race and to no particular race of men.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them.

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

Here's something else to think about: calling when you say you're going to is the very first brick in the house you are building of love and trust. If he can't lay this one stupid brick down, you ain't never gonna have a house baby, and it's cold outside.

I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.