Salman Rushdie Quotes

The thing about death is that it's honest.

Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehoods, or betrays its emptiness; it is a touchstone that proves the gold, and dishonors the baser metal.

The thing about death is that it's honest. I go to things that have a core of honesty about them and there's nothing more honest than death.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

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

When death has you by the throat, you don't mince words.

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

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.

It's the truth and people need to hear the truth.

There is only one dream I can guarantee... my death.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I Want The Truth

There's no smoke and mirrors here.

What would happen if we spoke the truth?

Death is the only real elegance.

Let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.

Never but the one matter. The dead and gone. The dying and going. From the word go.

And I suppose tapes are a desperate attempt to steal something from Death's suitcase.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking.

And make no mistake, my friend, your pointless life will end; but before you go, can you look at the truth?

The truth can be glimpsed only through the eyes of death.

The art of life is to show your hand. There is no diplomacy like candor. You may lose by it now and then, but it will be a loss well gained if you do. Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.

Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive.