#truth

We think of ourselves as failures, rather than renounce our belief in the possibility of perfection. We hang on to the hope of eternal love by denying even its temporary validity. It´s less painful to think 'I'm shallow', 'She's self centred', 'We couldn't communicate', 'It was all just physical', than to accept the simple fact that love is a passing sensation, for reasons beyond our control and even beyond our personalities. But who can reassure himself with his own rationalizations? No argument can fill the void of a dead feeling -- that reminder of the ultimate void, our final inconstancy. We're untrue even to life. ↗

— Stephen Vizinczey

#love #meaning #romance #truthfulness #communication

A man's power to connect his thought with its proper symbol, and so to utter it, depends on the simplicity of his character, that is, upon his love of truth, and his desire to communicate it without loss. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#language #simpicity #truth #communication

We also have to make sure our children know the history of women. Tell them the rotten truth: It wasn't always possible for women to become doctors or managers or insurance people. Let them be armed with a true picture of the way we want it to be. ↗

— Anne Roiphe

#always #armed #become #children #doctors

As long as I tell the truth I feel that nobody can touch me. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#i #i feel #long #me #nobody

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen. ↗

— Matt Roper

#hear #i #like #need #out

Such, Polly, are your sex - part truth, part fiction; - Some thought, much whim and all a contradiction. ↗

— Richard Savage

#fiction #much #part #polly #sex

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#advantage #believes #ever #great #great advantage

I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out. ↗

— Clare Short

#democracy #get #good #i #i think

The truth, my friend, is an awesome thing, to be handled with wisdom and with courage denied to ordinary people. Most of us must make do with illusions. Or else -- or else we could not endure. ↗

— Ruth Tessler Goldstein

#truth #courage

The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about how to do it that they have forgotten what to do. They have become so skilled in finding facts that they have no use for the truths that would make the facts worth finding. ↗

— Albion W. Small

#become #facts #finding #forgotten #historians