Cheryl Strayed Quotes

The truth cannot be delivered with novocaine.

Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.

This is not a sham, not a game. This is the real stuff.

I live a very real life.

Truth is life's most precious commodity.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

Esse quam videri," Celia says. "To be, rather than to seem.

Integrity is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake your consciousness, just as honesty is the recognition of the fact that you cannot fake existence.

Convert life into truth.

Oh its real, its damn real

Knock Knock. Who's there? The Truth. No joke.

I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

Stripping away artifice - it's the constant standard I aim for in acting, to approximate life. People talk about being bigger than life - but there's nothing bigger than life.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

There's a bit of truth in everything I do, you know.

Sometimes I think I've been too honest, and other times, too explicit.

I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

I support the truth, that is all there is to it. And if you fall in that category of the truth, you are supported by the truth.

I make an effort to keep it as real as I possibly can.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Some people would rather have a lie that makes them smile than a truth that makes them cry. I'm the opposite; I'd rather have people make me cry with the truth than try to make me smile.

I come out of real life.

You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?

I tell it like it is. I tell it like I see it. I tell it like I envision it. I tell it like I live it.