Truthfulness Quotes (page 113)

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• kindness
• speak
• wants

You mustn't speak certain kinds of truth," he whispered, "not if you want to go on living. Kurt Vonnegut

• spokes
• happening
• truths

What would happen if we spoke the truth? Alison Bechdel

• pretty
• thinking
• comforting

I was completely out of clean clothes. That meant I could be a slut and sleep naked , or I could be a slob and sleep in what I was wearing. Truth is, I'm not entirely comfortable sleeping naked. I do it from time to time, but I worry that God might be watching or that my mother might find out, and I'm pretty sure they both think nice girls should wear pyjamas to bed. Janet Evanovich

• art
• reflection
• history

The forms of art reflect the history of man more truthfully than do documents themselves. Theodor Adorno

• may
• wellness
• never

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• wisdom
• old
• new

[C. S. Lewis] showed me that newness is no virtue and oldness is no vice. Truth and beauty and goodness are not determined by when they exist. Nothing is inferior for being old, and nothing is valuable for being modern. This has freed me from the tyranny of novelty and opened for me the wisdom of the ages. John Piper

• learning
• people
• willing

People will tell you most of the story… and I’ve learned that the part they neglect to tell you is often the most important part. People hide the truth because they’re afraid. Nicholas Sparks

• lies
• part
• lied

the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent wort the truth Jean-Paul Sartre

• bitter
• nature
• manly

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture. Maxim Gorky

• heart
• love yourself
• thinking

The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe. Deepak Chopra

• thinking
• truthfully
• fictions

fiction is founded on truth.... unless things did happen, people couldn't think of them. Agatha Christie

• feeling
• world
• earring

Do you know how, when you are on the verge of a breakdown, the world pounds in your ears; a rush of blood, of consequence? Do you now how it feels when the truth cuts your tongue to ribbons, and still you have to speak it? Jodi Picoult

• disappointment
• truth
• truthfully

The truth is so often disappointing, or ugly; don't you find that, ma petite? Laurell K. Hamilton

• life
• moments
• drawback

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth, P. G. Wodehouse

• your life
• believe
• reality

He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that the grim reality of impending death can be talked away by trying to invest in the present reality of life. I didn’t believe that at the time, but now I do. By definition, you have to live until you die. Better to make that life as complete and enjoyable an experience as possible, in case death is shite, which I suspect it will be. Irvine Welsh