“Sometimes you hear a person speak the truth and you know that they are speaking the truth. But you also know that they have not heard themselves, do not know what they have said: do not know that they have revealed much more than they have said. This may be why the truth remains, on the whole, so ra…”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“You write a poem to discover what you’re thinking, feeling, where the truth is. You don’t begin by saying, now this is the truth.”— Maxine Kumin, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn’t; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com
“Once you know the truth, you can’t ever go back and pick up your suitcase of lies. Heavier or not, the truth is yours now.”— Sue Monk Kidd, amazon.com
“The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, goodreads.com
“All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”— Søren Kierkegaard, amazon.com
“It wasn’t only wickedness and scheming that made people unhappy, it was confusion and misunderstanding; above all, it was the failure to grasp the simple truth that other people are as real as you.”— Ian McEwan, amazon.com
“People always say be true to yourself. But that’s misleading, because there are two selves. There’s your short term self, and there’s your long term self. And if you’re only true to your short term self, your long term self slowly decays.”— Brandon Stanton, amazon.com
“Never tell a lie when you can tell the truth. The truth isn't always the safest course, but mostly it is.”— Stephen King, amazon.com
“So I stopped talking about it. There’s no need to talk, because the truth of what one says lies in what one does.”— Bernhard Schlink, amazon.com