Ann Voskamp Quotes

You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

The truth is overrated.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

… he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him.

There's a lot of stuff that's not good that's touted as being good.

Everything you see is not always real.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

The true word leads; the untrue misleads.

Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

Never question the relevance of truth, but always question the truth of relevance.

Truth is always a delusion.

A blunt statement can be as false as any other.

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

If we were to abandon concern for what is true, what is false, and what remains indeterminate, the world would be totally chaotic. Even those who deny the importance of truth, on the one hand, are quick to jump on anyone who is caught lying.

Clearness is so often one of the characteristics of truth that often it even passes for truth itself.

The truth is more important than the facts

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

We only value something when we measure it.