James D'arcy Quotes

It depends on which reality you take and which reality I take.” (p. 318).

There can be many opinions on a thing, but there is only one truth." Vashet smiled lazily. "And if the pursuit of the truth was my goal, that would concern me." She gave a long yawn, stretching like a happy cat. "Instead I will focus on the joy in my heart, [...}

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

There is no such thing as a true tale. Truth has many faces and the truth is like to the old road to Avalon; it depends on your own will, and your own thoughts, whither the road will take you.

A lot of what we're doing here deals with perception rather than truth. Many would argue that reality depends more on the former than the latter.

All of us create our own versions of an event, of our lives, even, not because we're liars, necessarily, but because we can only see and understand the truth from our own viewpoint, and a shifting viewpoint at that.

The truth is what you say it is, and that’s not a good place to be.

The truth is whatever people will believe is the truth.

Truth is, in fact, an elusive concept. It depends almost entirely on where you are standing at the time. It is a human instinct to confuse belief with truth.

When someone starts talking to me about the truth, what I hear is what they're telling me about themselves.

You can tell a true war story by the questions you ask. Somebody tells a story, let's say, and afterward you ask, 'Is it true?' and if the answer matters, you've got your answer . . . Absolute occurrence is irrelevant. A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.

I don't pretend reality is the same for everyone.

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

Everybody experiences reality in a way that's only true for them.

Your whole life is nothing but a dream. You live in a fantasy where everything you know about yourself is only true for you. Your truth is not the truth for anyone else.

I'm coming 'round to the view that there's only a personal view of the world.

Reality is a question of perspective.

I create my own reality. And I'm not the only one. My reality is becoming more prominent.

People make their own reality. That was what Praxis had taught him years ago. A hundred people can witness the exact same event, and give two hundred and three different accountings of it.

- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined.

There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.

My intent is to tell the truth as I know it, realizing that what is true for me may be blasphemy for others.

When we try to describe the truth with words, we distort it and it's no longer truth--it's our story. The story may be true for us, but that doesn't mean it's true for anyone else.