Truth Quotes

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

40912 quotes

H
"You've been stealing books."
Hans Hubermann
G
"The truth is often stranger than fiction."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
F
"One thing have I learned in my years, and that is that there is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Fermina Daza
F
"The truth is that a love once declared is a love that cannot be forgotten."
Florentino Ariza
B
"Telling a lie and living a lie are two very different things."
Briony Tallis
B
"There was nothing authentic in her existence anymore."
Briony Tallis
B
"The truth was too terrible to bear alone."
Briony Tallis
M
"Some people are born blind to certain things in the world"
Marie-Laure
L
"Nothing's a lie if you believe it."
Liesel Meminger
D
"The truth was, they were all hungry."
Death
B
"Her mind was not her own."
Briony Tallis
M
"The truth is often harder than any lie."
Marie-Laure
G
"She was so realistic that she did not believe in the deceptions of her eyes."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She had learned that the only certainty was uncertainty itself."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The final truth was that nothing was permanent except change itself."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"You think you're an exception. You're not."
Judge Holden
M
"Truth is harder to find than lies."
Marie-Laure
W
"It is possible that in the past I was not as good a man as I thought I was."
Werner
O
"One shouldn't spend one's life on assumptions."
Ove
"Some secrets are too dangerous to be spoken aloud."
Úrsula Iguarán
M
"Walls do not keep out the truth"
Marie-Laure
C
"I could not make myself feel what I did not"
Circe
C
"The gods are not kind, and kindness is not their currency."
Circe
O
"That's the problem with people. They forget what things mean."
Ove
O
"A man is measured by his actions, not his words."
Ove
O
"A man must decide what he stands for."
Ove
J
"What is written cannot be unwritten"
Judge Holden
J
"The stars do not lie"
Judge Holden
C
"One should not confuse defeat with truth."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
D
"I am always finding humans at their best and worst. I see their ugly and their beauty."
Death