Truth Quotes

What is truth? These quotes explore honesty, reality, and the courage it takes to face both.

40912 quotes

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"That's the real chaos—this has become the normal."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"I had been a fool."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"This is my life and it is my reality."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
C
"Dear God, I am sick."
Celie
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"If you want to know about my life, just listen."
Celie
C
"I am black, I am poor, I am a heathen."
Celie
C
"I got to open my mouth and tell the truth."
Celie
J
"What is conscience but truth in action?"
Jean Valjean
J
"There is no such thing as a life without bloodshed"
Judge Holden
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"You cannot escape what you are"
Judge Holden
P
"It is important to say that I was not born in Pondicherry."
Pi Patel
P
"Which story do you prefer?"
Pi Patel
O
"Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it."
Offred
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"I knew nothing about her. You can't know about other people's lives."
Offred
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"I have tried to be more objective. I have tried to show what I know about her through my own eyes."
Offred
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"The truth is often too painful to speak aloud."
Laila
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"If you stumble about believability, what are you living for?"
Pi Patel
C
"You a low down dog is all, and you always be a dog."
Celie
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"Some things are true whether they have happened or not."
Judge Holden
O
"We were the people who were not in the papers."
Offred
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"The world doesn't see you. That's the real invisibility."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
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"To speak truth to power requires first being seen."
The Invisible Man (Narrator)
S
"It is hardly an attractive notion that one has, over so many years, been engaged in some kind of self-deception."
Stevens
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"Anybody mean that don't want you to talk to nobody else."
Shug Avery
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"She got a right to know the truth."
Nettie
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"The world is everything that is the case."
Judge Holden
O
"Better never means better for everyone, of course. It always means worse, for some."
Offred
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"I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling."
Offred
O
"The world is full of men we don't know."
Offred
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"I couldn't pray a lie."
Huckleberry Finn