Charlotte Bronte Quotes

If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was.

Lost Illusion is the undisclosed title of every novel.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

As a son of a man who pretended to be one thing for 33 years of my life and then was another thing, the questions of 'what is real' and 'what is not real' are very blurrily vivid to me.

Dandyism is a lie which reveals the truth, and the truth is that we are what we pretend to be.

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock are in the sea!

You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.

I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai.

People so obsessed with being real in hip-hop because they don't want people to think that they're lying.

I am who I am, you are who you are, and everything else is a perception based on acceptance, deception, smoke, mirrors, and so on. It's what's between us that seems to justify our accidental identities.

Life is not always what we think it is.

Sanity is not truth. Sanity is conformity to what is socially expected. Truth is sometimes in conformity, sometimes not.

Our truth of nowadays is not what is, but what others can be convinced of; just as we call "money" not only that which is legal, but also any counterfeit that will pass.

Seeming and being are not one and the same.

Illusions mistaken for truth are the pavement under our feet. They are what we call civilization.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

What one beholds of a woman is the least part of her.

I’m not anything that you think I am.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.

Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.