Richard Hell Quotes

The ultimate truth is penultimately a falsehood.

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.

The dark is light enough.

All phenomena are real in some sense, unreal in some sense, meaningless in some sense, real and meaningless in some sense, unreal and meaningless in some sense, and real and unreal and meaningless in some sense.

From a distance it is something; and nearby it is nothing.

Good and bad; shade and sunlight, there's but a hair's breath between them. It's all one in the end.

The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness.

I’m doing badly, I’m doing well; whichever you prefer.

Things are not what they appear to be: nor are they otherwise.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

I can accept anything, except what seems to be the easiest for most people: the half-way, the almost, the just-about, the in-between.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

Everything is true and not true about everything. That’s one thing I’ve learned.

You've learned that every good lie is threaded with truth and every accepted truth leaks lies.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

Two sides of the same coin, but which side is which?

The reverse side of truth has a hundred thousand shapes and no defined limits.

I conclude that there is as much sense in nonsense as there is nonsense in sense.

Then to the depths! - I could as well say height: It's all the same.

Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.

Life is not black and white when it comes to perception.

Yes. The way people behave, the paradoxes, the contradictions. All these things we have to live with and still pretend that everything is only black or white. That, I think, is the most interesting thing in human nature. The fact that we have to do one thing and pretend something else. That’s when it becomes very interesting. If you can literally speak the way you feel, then it’s not interesting anymore. It’s when you have to lie that it becomes interesting.