#ruth

Truth, she thought. As terrible as death. But harder to find. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#death

The moment of change is usually not dazzling. It is a quiet, internal choice. No one can see it, but your life will never be the same again. ↗

— Simon Boylan

#inspirational #motivation #motivational #truth #wisdom

What I am telling you, before you begin my story, is this -- two things: I crave truth. And I lie. ↗

— Tana French

#truth #life

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#death

Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#lies #truth #youth #death

Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not, our own grinning reflections with which we do not argue, but good is another matter. Few have stared at that long enough to accept that its face too is grotesque, that in us the good is something under construction. The modes of evil usually receive worthy expression. The modes of good have to be satisfied with a cliche or a smoothing down that will soften their real look. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#good #life #philosophy #truth #life

If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie. ↗

— Richard Wright

#lie #truth #death

There it was again: Choose what to believe. He wanted the truth. Why was everybody so determined that he should not get it? ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#dark #death #favourite-quote #truth #death

Dance with me, Death, I am ready. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#death #stone-of-tears #sword-of-truth #terry-goodkind #death