Quotes by Authors - Page 5006

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.
A.W. Tozer
There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
Leo Tolstoy
Knowing can be a curse on a person's life. I'd traded in a pack of lies for a pack of truth, and I didn't know which one was heavier. Which one took the most strength to carry around? It was a ridiculous question, though, because 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
I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me. Your silences will not protect you.... What are the words you do not yet have? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? We have been socialized to respect fear more than our own need for language."I began to ask each time: "What's the worst that could happen to me if I tell this truth?" Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared" or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.Next time, ask: What's the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare. Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it's personal. And the world won't end.And the speaking will get easier and easier. And you will find you have fallen in love with your own vision, which you may never have realized you had. And you will lose some friends and lovers, and realize you don't miss them. And new ones will find you and cherish you. And you will still flirt and paint your nails, dress up and party, because, as I think Emma Goldman said, "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." And at last you'll know with surpassing certainty that only one thing is more frightening than speaking your truth. And that is not speaking.
Audre Lorde
Muhammad has always been standing higher than the Christianity. He does not consider god as a human being and never makes himself equal to God. Muslims worship nothing except God and Muhammad is his Messenger. There is no any mystery and secret in it.
Leo Tolstoy
I’m not sure. But there’s something about the darkness, the stillness of this hour, I think, that creates a language of its own. There’s a strange kind of freedom in the dark; a terrifying vulnerability we allow ourselves at exactly the wrong moment, tricked by the darkness into thinking it will keep our secrets. We forget that the blackness is not a blanket; we forget that the sun will soon rise. But in the moment, at least, we feel brave enough to say things we’d never say in the light.
Tahereh Mafi
Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.
Criss Jami
Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable.
Albert Camus
There is no doubt fiction makes a better job of the truth.
Doris Lessing
With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.
Sara Gruen
Nothing is ever certain.
Alice Sebold
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
Henry David Thoreau
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34
Anonymous
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Hunter S. Thompson
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
Ray Bradbury
The best lies were always mixed with truth.
Sarah J Maas
Boredom: the desire for desires.
Leo Tolstoy
You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.
Veronica Roth
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark Twain
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.
Margaret Atwood
Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised or a little mistaken.
Jane Austen
History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.
James Joyce
Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty.
John Steinbeck
You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.
C.S. Lewis
I can't believe I said it out loud. The truth doesn't set you free, you know. It makes you feel awkward and embarrassed and defenseless and red in the face and horrified and petrified and vulnerable. But free? I don't feel free. I feel like shit.
Melina Marchetta
Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.
Karen Marie Moning
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
Dorothy Allison
The truth doesn't always set you free; people prefer to believe prettier, neatley wrapped lies
Jodi Picoult
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Søren Kierkegaard
Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
George Orwell
Wanting to be liked can get in the way of truth.
Delia Ephron
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan
Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
Leo Tolstoy
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
Ally Carter
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George Orwell
Facts are like cows. If you look them in the face long enough, they generally run away.
Dorothy L. Sayers
If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.
Terry Goodkind
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Carl Sagan
Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.
Jessamyn West
I’m just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everybody else’s. I’m sick of everybody that wants to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It’s disgusting.
J.D. Salinger
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Maya Angelou
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
T.S Eliot
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
Lemony Snicket
If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
C.S. Lewis
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
Katherine Boo
It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
Lemony Snicket
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer
That's what fiction is for. It's for getting at the truth when the truth isn't sufficient for the truth.
Tim O'Brien
The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.
David Foster Wallace
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.
Ernest Hemingway
The only truth is music.
Jack Kerouac
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
Michelle Hodkin
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.
C.S. Lewis
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
Virginia Woolf
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
Ernest Hemingway
So you're always honest," I said."Aren't you?""No," I told him. "I'm not.""Well, that's good to know, I guess.""I'm not saying I'm a liar," I told him. He raised his eyebrows. "That's not how I meant it, anyways.""How'd you mean it, then?""I just...I don't always say what I feel.""Why not?""Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said."Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though.
Sarah Dessen
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
Henry David Thoreau