Truer Quotes

157 Truer quotes by 131 unique authors

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth. — Tim O'Brien
It is one of the best traits of good people that they love where they pity. And this is truer of women than of men. — Marilynne Robinson
The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only… — M. Scott Peck
You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot… — Ernest Hemingway
There is something truer and more real, than what we can see with the eyes, and touch with the finger. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written. — Tim O'Brien
Few men looked on her without becoming, in a certain fashion, her lovers. But it was the kind of love that made them not less… — C.S. Lewis
(Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices… — Jerome K. Jerome
I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth. — Tim O'Brien
Death is as unexpected in his caprice as a courtesan in her disdain; but death is truer – Death has never forsaken any man — Honore de Balzac
I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life. — Anthony Horowitz
No truer word, save God's, was ever spoken, Than that the largest heart is soonest broken. — Walter Savage Landor
.. a friend is someone who inspires, who challenges, who sends you in search of some truer sense of yourself.. — Steve Lopez
a kind of memory that tells us that what we're now striving for was once nearer and truer and attached to us with infinite tenderness.… — Rainer Maria Rilke
A man's magic demonstrates what sort of person he is, what is held most deeply inside of him. There is no truer gauge of a… — Jim Butcher
You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?'… — Tim O'Brien
Assuming the worst was always safer. And usually truer. — Laurell K. Hamilton
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head. — Hannah Arendt
‎Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
All happy people are grateful. Ungrateful people cannot be happy. We tend to think that being unhappy leads people to complain, but it’s truer to… — Dennis Prager
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by… — Anthony Bourdain
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that… — Ernest Hemingway
The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress. — Peter Matthiessen
Have you ever heard of the expression, ladies first" "Yes" "Well, it's truer in bed than it is anywhere else. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
His hands as he worked were deft and sure, but so gentle -- he was being careful not to hurt me any more than he… — L.A. Weatherly

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