#truth

If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#truth #christ

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#harsh-truth #neil-gaiman #reality #disappointment

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#truth #existence

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#death #literary-tradition #truth #beauty

Kim olursak olalım, dünyanın hangi yerinde yaşarsak yaşayalım, ta derinlerde bir yerde hepimiz bir eksiklik duygusu taşımaktayız. Sanki temel bir şeyimizi kaybetmişiz de geri alamamaktan korkuyoruz. Neyin eksik olduğunu bilenimizde hakikaten çok az. ↗

— Elif Shafak

#imagination #life #philosophy #truth #writing

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. ↗

— Alice James

#truth #experience

You wear a mask for so long, you forget who you were beneath it. ↗

— Alan Moore

#pretense #truthfulness #honesty

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#silence #truth #honesty

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#lies #serious #trust #truth #honesty

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#honesty