Truth Quotes

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

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"She was not a girl who could hide anything."
Death
D
"I'm always finding humans at their worst."
Death
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"I wanted to tell the book thief many things about myself."
Death
D
"Death listens to those who speak to him."
Death
J
"What is not in the ledger does not exist"
Judge Holden
J
"What is written in blood cannot be unwritten"
Judge Holden
J
"Whatever is true must be true forever"
Judge Holden
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"Truth is harder to transmit than lies."
Werner
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"The truth is that Macondo was not the town of ghosts it had become."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"The problem with people is that they're always trying to be something they're not."
Ove
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"The supreme court of conscience is within us."
Jean Valjean
J
"Only the damned are pleased with their condition."
Judge Holden
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"The gods do not care for our suffering"
Circe
C
"I became the monster they said I was"
Circe
C
"I learned that even gods can be lonely"
Circe
C
"The world does not forgive what it does not understand"
Circe
R
"Every person has their own reality in their own heart"
Remedios the Beauty
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"The truth is that life is nothing but a search for identity"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
O
"What's the point of having principles if you don't live by them?"
Ove
O
"A man's word is his bond, or at least it should be."
Ove
O
"The world is full of people trying to be something they're not."
Ove
J
"Nothing is true that is not real."
Judge Holden
G
"He sought truth in books, only to discover that truth lived in the hearts of people."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"The final revelation came too late, written in a language that only one could read."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
J
"What is written cannot be unwritten."
Judge Holden
G
"In any case, she had never experienced the need to lie"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
G
"She had never felt anything like the anxiety to know who she really was"
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"I am sorry for the darkness in which men must live, but I cannot change it."
Achilles
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"He really did look like a madman, but he was not mad."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
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"There is truth in fiction."
Death