True Quotes

Quotes tagged as "true" Showing 61-90 of 1,167
Allison DuBois
“If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.”
Allison DuBois

Ned Vizzini
“It's such a silly little thing, the heart.”
Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story

Francesca Zappia
“I am real. This”–he put his other hand over the first-“is real. You see me interacting with other people all day long, don’t you? I talk to people; I affect things in the world. I cause things to happen. I am real.”

“But-but what if this whole place”-I had to suck in air again-“what if everything is inside my head? East Shoal and Scarlet and this bridge and you-what if you’re not real because nothing is real?”

“If nothing’s real, then what does it matter?” he said. “You live here. Doesn’t that make it real enough?”
Francesca Zappia, Made You Up

Victoria Aveyard
“Their Silver war is being paid for in Red blood.”
Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen

Haruki Murakami
“Oshima's silent for a time as he gazes at the forest, eyes narrowed. Birds are flitting from one branch to the next. His hands are clasped behind his head. "I know how you feel," he finally says. "But this is something you have to work out on your own. Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about, Kafka. You're the one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.”
Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
tags: true

Cecelia Ahern
“Fairy tales are such evil little stories for young children.”
Cecelia Ahern, Love, Rosie
tags: true

Kyung-Sook Shin
“All I wanted was for you to be free from everything. And with that freedom, you often showed me another world, so I wanted you to be even freer. I wanted you to be so free that you would live your life for other people.”
Kyung-Sook Shin, Please Look After Mom

“One of the simplest ways to stay happy is letting go of the things that makes you sad.”
daily dose

John Green
“Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.”
John Green

George R.R. Martin
“A great battle is a terrible thing," the old knight said, "but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.”
George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms

Veronica Roth
“The opinions of others cannot damage you.”
Veronica Roth, Divergent

Jennifer Egan
“Kathy was a Republican, one of those people who used the unforgivable phrase "meant to be"--usually when describing her own good fortune or the disasters that had befallen other people.”
Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

Stephen Chbosky
“It's much easier not to know things sometimes.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
tags: sad, true

“One thing I've learnt through writing is this: with everything in life, you have to look down deep into your heart! That fact is true with all things! If you have Jesus inside, He will give you all you need to say, and all the actions you need to do! It's not mere imagination the things I write; they are composed from the words lit up inside of me, from my Creator, who made all things bright!”
Mary Kate

Stephen Fry
“Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.”
Stephen Fry, The Fry Chronicles

Nancy Werlin
“When you're living your life in endurance mode, you don't expect anything good to happen. I'm not saying that you don't dream about some miracle that would change everything for the better. But you pretty much know it's only a fantasy, and that you have no real control over anything.”
nancy werlin

Michel Faber
“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”
Michel Faber, The Book of Strange New Things

Tonya Hurley
“You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.”
Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

Kathryn Stockett
“You're gon' have to say to your self, am I gon' believe what them fools say about me today?”
Kathryn Stockett, The Help
tags: true

Stephen        King
“He didn’t know if that was really true or not, but he discovered something which was tremendously liberating: he didn’t care. He was very tired of thinking and thinking and still not knowing. He was also tired of being frightened, like a man who has entered a cave on a lark and now begins to suspect he is lost. Stop thinking about it, then. That’s the solution.”
Stephen King, The Dark Half

Mitch Albom
“You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.”
Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

Susane Colasanti
“Just when it seems like life is getting good, something always has to come along and ruin it.”
Susane Colasanti, So Much Closer

Katie McGarry
“Isn't it always the things that you can't see that hurt you?”
Katie McGarry, Nowhere But Here
tags: hurt, sad, true

Israelmore Ayivor
“There is no other way to determine the difference between the will of God and the crafts of satan... Jesus is the way, the truth and the life... The Holy Spirit of God is the Comforter...”
Israelmore Ayivor

Mark Twain
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious”
Mark Twain

Jean Rhys
“I thought if I told no one it might not be true.”
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea

Humayun Ahmed
“সত্য কথাগুলো সব সময় বক্তৃতার মতো শোনায়, মিথ্যাগুলো শোনায় কবিতার মত।”
Humayun Ahmed
tags: true

Amar Neupane
“भगवानलाई पनि पाप लाग्ने भए सवैभन्दा धेरै पाप उनैलाई लाग्थ्यो होला ।”
Amar Neupane, सेतो धरती [Seto Dharati]
tags: true

“PARENTS. WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF ON OUR OWN. Except for, you know, food.”
Sofia