Kindlehighlight Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

“Strictly speaking, nothing that’s said is true. (Though one can be the truth, one can’t ever say it.)”

— Susan Sontag

“And in that I never saw more truth...than to truly live, was to have something worth dying for.”

— N. Gemini Sasson

“He saw the hardness turn to fear, saw the plea begin to form on the man’s lips. And he shook his head. When death…

— Stephen England

“The old man smiled. 'I shall not die of a cold, my son. I shall die of having lived.”

— Willa Cather

Wooo!’ he said, slamming his shot glass down and coughing a bit. ‘That’s good stuff.’ I agreed heartily. ‘Shall we do another one?’ I…

— Kevin Hearne

“Why would you give up your life from a world that doesn't even believe you exist?' A cough wracks his body, but his grip…

— Kara Swanson

“Attach yourself to truth, not to me. For I may die before you, but the truth will accompany you to your death.”

— David Lindsay

“We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It’s only a cold,” I said. “Well, a cold can kill an old person,” he said gruffly. “And even if they do get better,…

— Liesl Shurtliff

“The world can absorb only doses of truth," he said; "too much would kill it." One sought education in order to adjust the dose.”

— Henry Adams

“I knew in every cough and sob, every hitched breath and chest spasm, that he’d hold me together. Whatever fell apart, he’d put right.”

— C.D. Reiss

“Nothing false will survive. Nothing true will perish.”

— Jed McKenna