Unavoidable Truth Quotes

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

Hell itself is truth known too late

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.

Reality has a way of asserting itself.

Exactly! It is absurd - improbable - it cannot be. So I myself have said. And yet, my friend, there it is! One cannot escape from the facts.

It was as true ... as taxes is. And nothing's truer than them.

And a true God is not One with the most servants, but One who serves the most, thereby making Gods of all others. For this is both the goal and the glory of God: that His subjects shall be no more, and that all shall know God not as the unattainable, but as the unavoidable.

Truth allows no choice.

I said it, just like that. No stupid jokes, no changing the subject. For once, I wasn't embarrassed, because it was the truth. I had fallen. I think I had always been falling. And she might as well know, if she didn't already, because there was no going back now. Not for me.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rationalize, explain away. I could only re-experience with total cognizance, unprotected by pretense. Self delusion was impossible, truth exposed in this blinding light. Nothing as I thought it had been. Nothing as I hoped it had been. Only as it had been.

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know. Even if we run a hundred miles an hour to the other side of the continent, we find the very same problem awaiting us when we arrive.

There is a moment when nothing can be wiped out and left behind any more, when there is only reality and reality is horrifying.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist... why would you want to?

Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

I can't protect you from knowledge.

The truth has a strange way of following you, of coming up to you and making you listen to what it has to say.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?