Simone Elkeles Quotes

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

And right this second I want to live in ignorant bliss.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived.

I am friends with Demi. Don't believe anything you read.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

The gossip mill on tour is always turning. I have to be a little careful about what I tell guys who I don't consider close friends, because even though they might not spread it to other players, they'll usually tell their wives. And once the wives get it, it's gone.

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Some people choose not to believe the truth because it disagrees with what they fundamentally want.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

...if all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

People make up things. If you ask the guys in this clubhouse I played with, I've never been a troublemaker. I don't know where that came from.

There was a story saying I didn't like contemporary comedians, but it's completely untrue - a lot of them are very dear friends of mine.

Fake friends believe in rumors. Real friends believe in you.

I don't want no problems. I don't want to know problems.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

The most disagreeable thing that your worst enemy says to your face does not approach what your best friends say behind your back.