Truth Quotes

"The so-called 'real' emerges when the self is temporarily forgotten."

"The facts about us are not generous; the truth is likely to be humiliating."

"A man may say, 'From now on I'm going to speak the truth.' But the real truth is he can't."

"The heart is ignorant."

"We are not in search of truth; we are in search of comfort."

"A man who cannot endure to have his errors and shortcomings brought to the light is indeed in a sorry plight."

"The world has no lack of traitors. That much is certain."

"The only thing worth preserving is the truth, however ugly."

"There is no backstage. What you see is what you get."

"The sadness is the only honesty."

"The truth is often uncomfortable because it mirrors our own complicity."

"We all live behind masks until someone shows us it is safe to remove them."

"The pursuit of truth requires releasing what we thought we knew."

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you odd."

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."

"The hardest thing to believe will always be the truth."

"Everything that rises must converge toward truth."

"The truth will naturally be stranger than fiction."

"The most important thing is you can't fake sincerity."

"A memory may be an invention of the mind, yet it might be a revelation of truth."

"You can place absolute confidence in what I tell you because I have witnessed it myself."

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."

"The truth about the world is that anything is possible. Half the lies are true and half the lies are false."

"The greatest lies are those we tell ourselves about who we are."

"Entertainment keeps us from feeling our own pain and despair."

"Modern life seems to require a certain blindness to the reality around us."

"If you're not somehow rock-bottom, you're just going to keep sinking."

"The greatest lie is that you're supposed to know what you're doing."

"Most human suffering comes from trying to be someone we're not."

"Reality isn't depressing; the denial of reality is what's depressing."