Robert Frost Quotes

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.

The truth is that I don't really care what everyone thinks.

I'm not too big on cats, and sometimes I'll say something like that, and people get so mad at me. But the truth is, I don't care if they get mad.

The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.

Secular humanists suspect there is something more gloriously human about resisting the religious impulse; about accepting the cold truth, even if that truth is only that the universe is as indifferent to us as we are to it.

We can none of us step into the same river twice, but the river flows on and the other river we step into is cool and refreshing, too

An individual human existence should be like a river

What is the use trying to describe the flowing of a river at any one moment, and then at the next moment, and then at the next, and the next, and the next? You wear out. You say: There is a great river, and it flows through this land, and we have named it History.

More bounteous run rivers when the ice that locked their flow melts into their waters. And when fine natures relent, their kindness is swelled by the thaw.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

A dream is like a river ever changing as it flows and a dreamer's just a vessel that must follow where it goes.

You don't want the truth. Truth is boring.

Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.

Brass is polished by ashes; copper is cleaned by tamarind; a woman, by her menses; and a river by its flow.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

Why do we not hear the truth? Because we do not speak it.

To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

How do you know I wouldn't have just been happy with the truth? I don’t care if my father was a deadbeat named Butternut. It doesn't change anything right now.” “His name wasn't really Butternut, was it?” Gansey asked Adam in a low voice.

With those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.

Truth is great and will prevail if left to herself.

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

Rivers are roads which move, and which carry us whither we desire to go.

But the truth is a double-edged sword; it is a dangerous thing.

If you act like the river, you ultimately flow past all the rocks along the way.