I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
Telling the truth is the right way to act. Living with lies is harder than living a truthful life. Being truthful and honest is important.
Speak the truth by all means; be bold and fearless in your rebuke of error, and in your keener rebuke of wrongdoing; but be human, and loving, and gentle, and brotherly, the while
The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say
Truth never damages a cause that is just.
It is often easier to believe a pleasant lie than to acknowledge a devastating truth.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
A lie travels round the world, while Truth is putting on her boots
I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.
I think if the people of this country can be reached with the truth, their judgment will be in favor of the many, as against the privileged few
Advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive.
Never allow the integrity of your own way of seeing things and saying things to be swamped by the influence of a master, however great.
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.
Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words from your mouth will be empty, and each action will be meaningless. Truth and confidence are the roots of happiness.
I speak the truth, but I guess that's a foreign language for you.
Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.
Truth is immortal; error is mortal
And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings.
Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.
Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state. There is as little reason to deplore the one as there is to be pleased over the other.
There's a remedy for everything except death.
Yea, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil, for I am the meanest son of a bitch in the valley.
If creating life is art, then living and dying must be poetry.
Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live.
Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.
I can't afford to die; I'd lose too much money.
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
I'll be judge, I'll be jury,' said cunning old Fury: 'I'll try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
All men think all men mortal, but themselves
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of h
There is a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us out flat some time or other.
Everything one does in life, even love, occurs in an express train racing toward death. To smoke opium is to get out of the train while it is still moving. It is to concern oneself with something other than life or death.
ll our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.
If I die, tell him that I loved him.