Truth Quotes

"Most people don't really want the truth; they want reassurance."

"We're all performing versions of ourselves; the question is whether we know it."

"Boredom is an indication that you are living inauthentically."

"We tell ourselves stories to avoid the truth of our existence."

"The greatest deception is the one we perpetrate upon ourselves."

"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior."

"People always think something's all true."

"The eyes are an awful tell-tale."

"I'm always saying things I shouldn't say."

"I mean it."

"It really is."

"What really bugs me about people is their phoniness."

"The world is full of people trying to be something they're not."

"The truth is a moving target when it comes to war."

"Truth is harder to accept than any comfortable lie."

"The act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe."

"There is a real darkness in human nature that must be acknowledged."

"The greatest enemy of truth is not a lie, but a half-truth."

"Authenticity is not found; it is created through deliberate choice."

"What we call reality is simply the consensus we have agreed upon."

"To be authentic is to be willing to be condemned."

"We are all, in essence, liars trying to tell the truth."

"Truth is often more important than comfort."

"All this happened, more or less."

"We must be careful about what we pretend to be."

"The ugliest feature on the human face is the eyes of a man who is hiding something."

"Morphine is the only cure for morphine."

"Nothing true can be said about anything important."

"Your secrets are your prisons."

"The so-called culture war is really about whether we get to avoid reality or not."