Truth About Life Quotes

• Just when the truth about life sinks in, His truth starts to surface. He takes us by the hand and dares us not to sweep the facts under the rug but to confront them with him at our side.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Hands, Facts

  Max Lucado (2013). “God Came Near: God's Perfect Gift”, p.79, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• How many people also in our time are in search of God, in search of Jesus and of his Church, in search of divine mercy, and are waiting for a "sign" that will touch their minds and their hearts! Today, as then, the Evangelist reminds us that the only "sign" is Jesus raised on the cross: Jesus who died and rose is the absolutely sufficient sign. Through him we can understand the truth about life and obtain salvation.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Jesus, Heart, People

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• The word theatre comes from the Greeks. It means the seeing place. It is the place people come to see the truth about life and the social situation.

  Stella Adler

  Mean, People, Greek

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• Only as we give the children the truth about life can we expect any improvement in it.

  Mabel Robinson

  Children, Giving, Literature

  Mabel Louise Robinson (1922). “Writing for Young People”

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• Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

  Shakuntala Devi

  School, Degrees, Absorbing

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• Folk songs are evasive-the truth about life, and life is more or less a lie, but then again that's exactly the way we want it to be. We wouldn't be comfortable with it any other way. A folk song has over a thousand faces and you must meet them all if you want to play this stuff. A folk song might vary in meaning and it might not appear the same from one moment to the next. It depends on who's playing and who's listening.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Lying, Play

  Bob Dylan (2011). “Chronicles”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• Alcohol may also persuade us that we have found the truth about life, a comforting experience rarely available in the sober hour.

  Joan Acocella

  Drinking, Alcohol, Comforting

  "A Few Too Many" by Joan Acocella, www.newyorker.com. May 26, 2008.

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• Poetry reminds us of the truths about life and human nature that we knew all along, but forgot somehow because they weren't yet in memorable language.

  Diane Ackerman

  Memorable, Poetry, Language

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “Deep Play”, p.129, Vintage

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• There are some truths about life that can be expressed only as stories, or songs, or images. Art delights, instructs, consoles. It educates our emotions.

  Dana Gioia

  Song, Art, Stories

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• Empathy is not merely the basic principle of artistic creation. It is also the only path by which one can reach the truth about life and society.

  Kafu Nagai

  Compassion, Empathy, Principles

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• Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful and moving. 'That is what I have wanted to say to you, my brothers. Before I died.' So he concludes, giving one a vivid sense of the old man, pen in hand and bent over the paper, his forehead wrinkled into a look of puzzlement very characteristic of him, as though he were perpetually wondering how others could fail to see what was to him so clear - that the law of love explained all mysteries and invalidated all other laws.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Love, Beautiful, Brother

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• Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life

  Donna Tartt

  Truth, Take Me, Sad Truth

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• But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

  Donna Tartt

  Romantic, Life Is Hard, Vision

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• Novels tell us the most truth about life: what it is, how we live it, what it might be for, how we enjoy and value it, and how we lose it.

  Julian Barnes

  Might, Enjoy, Novel

  Julian Barnes (2012). “Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and one short story)”, p.11, Random House

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• The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

  Nick Hornby

  Narrative, Behind You, Bunch

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.227, Penguin UK

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• He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Wings, Laughing, Goes On

  Kurt Vonnegut (1973). “Breakfast of champions: or, Goodbye blue Monday!”, Dell

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• If you don't want your children to know the truth about life don't send 'em to the theater to see Moms 'cause I'm gonna tell them THE TRUTH, hear?

  Moms Mabley

  Mom, Children, Ems

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