True Things Quotes

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  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.331, Princeton University Press

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• All true things must change and only that which changes remains true.

  Carl Jung

  Spiritual, Remains

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• Stories may well be lies, but they are good lies that say true things, and which can sometimes pay the rent.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Writing, Stories

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• Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.

  Meister Eckhart

  Life, Truth, Writing

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• start with one true thing

  C.E. Murphy

  C.E. Murphy (2009). “Urban Shaman”, p.286, LUNA

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• I'm in love with you," he said quietly. "Augustus," I said. "I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.

  John Green

  Love, Romantic, Eye

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• The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Way, Shows

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.28, HarperCollins

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• I choose my love for Lucinda," he called to Heaven and Earth, to the angels all around him and the ones who weren't there. To the soul of the one true thing he loved the most, wherever she was. "I now reaffirm my choice: I choose Lucinda over everything. And I will until the end." -Daniel Grigori, Passion

  Lauren Kate

  Passion, Angel, Choices

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.853, Delacorte Press

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• I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

  John Green

  Stars, Love You, Happy Valentines Day

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.90, Penguin

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• It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

  David Levithan

  Simple, Complicated

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice salesman named Jefferson Jefferson. When he became rich and powerful, he went to court, made "Jefferson" his middle name, and then changed his first name to "Dr." Capital D. Lowercase r. Period.

  John Green

  Powerful, Doctors, Orange Juice

  John Green (2010). “Paper Towns”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Kindness, Lying

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• I was saying the right things, but not the really true things.

  Katherine Hannigan

  Really True, Right Thing

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• Doc still loved true things but he knew that it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress.

  John Steinbeck

  Mistress, Dangerous, Stills

  John Steinbeck (1953). “The Short Novels of John Steinbeck”, New York : Viking Press

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• Power, true power, comes from the belief in true things, and the willingness to stand behind that belief, even if the universe itself conspires to thwart your plans. Chaos may settle; flames may die; worlds may rise and fall. But true things will remain so, and will never fail to guide you to your goals.

  James A. Owen

  Fall, Flames, True Power

  James A. Owen (2010). “Here, There Be Dragons”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Believe, Cat, People

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit”, p.93, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Devil, Body

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

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• It is not to taste sweet things; but to do noble and true things, and vindicate himself under God's heaven as a God-made man, that the poorest son of Adam dimly longs. Show him the way of doing that, the dullest day-drudge kindles into a hero. They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death, are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the inner genial life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lower considerations.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Hero, Heart

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• I doubt there's ever been a true thing said on Fox. Maybe the weather report, maybe not.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Weather, Doubt, Foxes

  "Ruminator" Magazine, August/September 2005.

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• The entire vitality of art depends upon its being either full of truth, or full of use; and that, however pleasant, wonderful, or impressive it may be in itself, it must yet be of inferior kind, and tend to deeper inferiority, unless it has clearly one of these main objects, either to state a true thing, or to adorn a serviceable one.

  John Ruskin

  Art, Vitality, Use

  John Ruskin (2012). “Selections From the Works of John Ruskin”, p.303, tredition

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• Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

  Eric Maisel

  Pain, Blessing, Suffering

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.123, Penguin

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• Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you think them fools; and after a time, right or wrong, you think them fools simply because they oppose you. Similarly, you write true things or good things, and end by thinking things true or good simply because you write them

  Randall Jarrell

  Strong, Writing, Thinking

  "Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964". Book by Randall Jarrell, "Poets: Old, New, and Aging" (p. 44), 1980.

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• There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Painting, Wells, Ifs

  Ernest Hemingway (1970). “Islands in the stream”, Scribner Book Company

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• Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

  Roseanne Barr

  Get Away, Paid

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. April 25, 2013.

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• Imagination is the only true thing in the world!

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Imagination, World

  Sarah Orne Jewett (1911). “Letters of Sarah Orne Jewett”

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