Truth Quotes - Page 19

A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.

I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.

If a man has so much heat he burns your skin when he touches you, he's the devil. Run away

To hate others is ugly.
To hate yourself is uglier.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

Non-violence, which is the quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.

There's release in knowing the truth no matter how anguishing it is. You come finally to the irreducible thing, and there's nothing left to do but pick it up and hold it. Then, at last, you can enter the severe mercy of acceptance.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

To force oneself to believe and to accept a thing without understanding is political, and not spiritual or intellectual.

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better?

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.

The problem with religion, because it's been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

Purity of heart is what enables us to see.

Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think…

The topic of compassion is not at all religious business; it is important to know it is human business, it is a question of human survival.

I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, and everyone was crying.