Top 52 Truth Is Stranger Quotes
#2. Utopian and dystopian truth is stranger than fiction.
Michael Wall
#3. Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
Walter Kirn
#5. The truth is stranger than fiction ... and often more incriminating.
Greg Cox
#6. Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
Brad Holland
#7. 'Fargo' becomes a metaphor for a type of true crime case where truth is stranger than fiction. So, there's no reason that there isn't another 10-hour true crime story that could be told in this region.
Noah Hawley
#8. The reason that truth is stranger than fiction is that fiction has to have a rational thread running through it in order to be believable, whereas reality may be totally irrational.
Sydney J. Harris
#9. I would advise the curious reader to keep in mind the old adage "truth is stranger than fiction." Expect the most outlandish, fantastic and unbelievable elements of this story to be true, and the more low-key elements to be fudged.
Dan Grajek
#10. It's said truth is stranger than fiction, but fiction makes truth a friend, not a stranger.
Avi
#11. Life isn't meant to be believable. It's meant to be magical. Haven't you heard? Truth is stranger than fiction.
Rebecca Serle
#12. As the saying goes, truth is stranger than fiction. But only when the reality has not been subsumed by foamy legends and fantasies that radiate outward from the actual event.
Brock Yates
#13. Those who say truth is stranger than fiction have wasted their time on poorly written fiction.
Mark Twain
#14. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction, but usually fiction is just better.
Jon Weisman
#15. When it [truth] emerges it often bears out the saying that 'truth is stranger than fiction.' A novelist has to appear plausible, and would hesitate to make use of such astounding contradictions as occur in history through some extraordinary accident or twist of psychology .
Bill Vaughan
#17. Truth is stranger than fiction, which is why reality TV is so popular.
Heather Dubrow
#18. Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.
Leo Rosten
#19. They say 'truth is stranger than fiction,' but I like to say fiction is truth - only stranger.
Chip Hill
#20. Anyone who claims that truth is stranger than fiction has never gazed into a writer's mind, or read my stories.
Lucian Barnes
#21. In death, as so often in life, truth is stranger than fiction." Why is life more unpredictable than a football game?
Joanna Eliot
#22. Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.
Mark Twain
#23. You need to understand that truth is stranger than fiction. Listen: people are willing to swallow any old tripe as long as you say it without flinching. They want to be told stuff. And they don't want to doubt you either. It's too hard.
Craig Silvey
#24. Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.
Sanjo Jendayi
#25. I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.
Joseph DiFrancesco
#26. I've played drug dealers, all my life. I've made a career of killing people and playing all kinds of killers. The violence and drugs is portrayed in exaggeration. This is fiction. That is how I looked at it. And, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Just open a newspaper.
Benicio Del Toro
#27. I think that truth is stranger than fiction, and it's nice to know the people you're making a movie about.
Julian Schnabel
#28. Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain
#29. Truth is only stranger than fiction if you're a stranger to the truth. Which means you're either a liar or you're fictional.
Pseudonymous Bosch
#30. The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent.
Mark Twain
#31. Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.
John Hodgman
#32. That God is in truth the sort of bloodthirsty paranoid Who would rend to bits forty-two children for the crime of sassing one of his priests. Don't ask me about the Front Office's policies; I just work here.
Robert A. Heinlein
#33. She wasn't my kind of woman and that's why, that night she was. This wine is the Blood of Christ. Brings the truth out of a woman sooner than any confession box does. Makes you trust a stranger with your life, your car keys, your best-guarded secret.
Amruta Patil
#34. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
G.K. Chesterton
#35. Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.
Mira Nair
#36. The best conversation is rare. Society seems to have agreed to treat fictions as realities, and realities as fictions; and the simple lover of truth, especially if on very high grounds, as a religious or intellectual seeker, finds himself a stranger and alien.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#37. Tis strange - but true; for Truth is always strange,
Stranger than Fiction
George Gordon Byron
#38. History is not our guide, it is not our friend. It is a passing stranger, one which shadows legend, sprinkling it with the seeds of truth.
Michelle Sagara West
#39. The truth is a stranger...Not always welcome by daylight.
Colin Greenland
#40. It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#41. When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an illusory feeling, because the truth is quite the reverse. You are the whole works, all that there is, and always was, and always has been, and always will be.
Alan Watts
#42. Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain
#43. There is more of turn than of truth in a saying of Seneca, "That drunkenness does not produce but discover faults." Common experience teaches the contrary. Wine throws a man out of himself, and infuses dualities into the mind which she is a stranger to in her sober moments.
Joseph Addison
#45. You don't have to sort of enhance reality. There is nothing stranger than truth.
Annie Leibovitz
#46. Since truth is often stranger than fiction, fiction needs to be pretty weird.
Erik Meyer
#47. When you're a kid, they tell you it's all ... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
Elton Pope
#48. Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting.
William Randolph
#49. If you would seek to find yourself
look not in the mirror
for there is but a shadow there'
A stranger ...
SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH
Sidney Sheldon
#50. The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.
Gertrude Stein
#51. Because survival and love are the immortal truths of humankind, no generation is a total stranger to the forerunner generations of humankind.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#52. How frustrating to think you can be lost to yourself. And yet how often it is that a stranger stares back at you from the mirror. Maybe in truth we never see ourselves as clearly as the thousands of eyes that daily take us in.
Richelle E. Goodrich
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