It is difficult, when faced with a situation you cannot control, to admit you can do nothing.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.
Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Men may be stronger, but it is women who endure.
A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
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.
Just because you don't understand it doesn't mean it isn't so.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Something inside Clary cracked and broke, and words came pouring out. 'What do you want me to tell you? The truth? The truth is that I love Simon like I should love you, and I wish he was my brother and you weren't, but I can't do anything about that and neither can you!
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
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.
