Very Short Truth Quotes

#1. Duration of life is short but donation of life could be unbounded.

Debasish Mridha

#2. Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; "long" and "short" relate to each other, "high" and "low," and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so.

Dalai Lama

#3. I am 1324512000 seconds old. In the cosmic blink of an eye, I will become once again cosmic dust.

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#4. Love without truth and honor is licentious in nature. Love without commitment is promiscuous and fleeting. Love without virtue and understanding is savage and selfish. Love without respect is short-lived. Love without these conditions is without God.

David W. Stevens

#5. The senses have their limits, and we can never know how short they fall in revealing to us the truth of a vision, a scent, a sound.

Stephanie Perkins

#6. He who thinks we are to pitch our tent here, and have attained the utmost prospect of reformation that the mortal glass wherein we contemplate can show us, till we come to beatific vision, that man by this very opinion declares that he is yet far short of truth.

John Milton

#7. The man is well inside the train before the dreadful truth occurs to me. He is the man from the newspaper. The rapist. My doppelganger. My mirrored doppelganger.
William Wilson in the short story 'Metro' by Steen Langstrup.

Steen Langstrup

#8. The cross where Jesus died became also the cross where His apostle died. The loss, the rejection, the shame, belong both to Christ and to all who in very truth are His. the cross that saves them also slays them, and anything short of this is a pseudo-faith and not true faith at all.

A.W. Tozer

#9. Despite its successes, in the end, philosophical thinking always falls short of its real goal. It involves both the wonder of aspiring toward the Truth and the distress of falling short of that Truth. In this way, philosophy can be characterized as wondrous distress.

John Marmysz

#10. Just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic ... See, they have a beautiful life.

Lisa Genova

#11. Truth is short; lies are long.

Jeff Funk

#12. To dive in the darkness, I should dive in the truth, then in images of the world..., then facts, then in books, then listening, then in short stories... that's how I write the horror. It's very complicated.

Deyth Banger

#13. I am not astonished that men who lean, as it were, on an atom, should stumble at the smallest efforts they make for discovering the truth ; that, being so short-sighted, they do not reach beyond the heavens and the stars, to contemplate God Himself.

Jean De La Bruyere

#14. Sometimes things happen in our lives that wake us up to the truth, about how short life is. It's then we wonder why we spent so much wasted time looking too far into the future.

Ron Baratono

#15. If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.

Abraham Maslow

#16. Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged - temporarily - but your heart and soul, the true self, will suffer the long term affects of karma's justifiable sting.

T.F. Hodge

#17. In short, it is madness. People try to manage their emotions by controlling external factors. Others let their emotions change based on what they experience outside of them. And none of it works. The truth is and has always been that you are in complete control of how you feel.

Dave Asch

#18. When my reason is afloat, my faith cannot long remain in suspense, and I believe in God as firmly as in any other truth whatever; in short, a thousand motives draw me to the consolatory side, and add the weight of hope to the equilibrium of reason.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#19. I have nothing I want to ask you, and if I did, you would probably lie anyway."
"I'm drunk. Drunk people tell the truth."
"Like hell they do. Besides you're not that drunk."
"Then dare me something."
I snorted. "No, because I'm not that drunk, or stupid.

Elizabeth Morgan

#20. People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.

Sarah Addison Allen

#21. There is no poetry or song.
There is no short or long.
There is only you.

Debasish Mridha

#22. In short, whoever does violence to truth or its expression eventually mutilates justice, even though he thinks he is serving it. From this point of view, we shall deny to the very end that a press is true because it is revolutionary; it will be revolutionary only if it is true, and never otherwise.

Albert Camus

#23. Life is short but donation of life could have a long life.

Debasish Mridha

#24. I lost someone close to me once . . . Taught me to live in the moment. Life is short, you know?

Brent Jones

#25. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

#26. He leaned back, appalled at himself. She was a ***damn dose of truth serum. Things were falling out of his mouth as though his ability to sensor had short-circuited.

Laura Spinella

#27. 3,2,1 ... Launch! A lot of preparation goes into launching a rocket ship. No short cuts or cheating will get that rocket to its destination. A lot of hard work and dedication goes into every launch. What are you doing to launch? Are you doing the proper work needed? Are you dedicated?

Robert D. Kintigh

#28. Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#29. I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.

Clare Short

#30. The truth is, you have about three paragraphs in a short story, three pages in a novel, to capture that editor's attention enough for her to finish your story.

Nancy Kress

#31. Fiction cannot betray the truth. Though it must try"...As said by Ernest Hemingway in "Blast"...The first short story in "Bullet".

Christopher J. Pumphrey

#32. The problem in today's society is that the truth is in short supply and people love soft lies more than hard truths

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#33. There is, in short, no great idea that stupidity could not put to its own uses [ ... ] The truth by comparison, has only one appearance and only one path, and is always at a disadvantage.

Robert Musil

#34. To accept the truth of who you really are takes nothing short of realization. You have to see the diamond for yourself.

Dennis Merzel

#35. And bearing the Mortal Sword, even for such a short time, had forged an indelible bond in his mind between truth and pain.

Cassandra Clare

#36. I have taken a terrible beating from the truth and feel tamed, wise and desperate, as if I had taken a short route to wisdom through a mirror, and cut myself badly on it as I passed through.

Derek Raymond

#37. I will settle, in the short term," said Dumbledore, with a bite of impatience in his voice, "for a lack of open hostility. You will shake hands. You are on the same side now. Time is short, and unless the few of us who know the truth stand united, there is no hope for any of us.

J.K. Rowling

#38. His lips turned upward. Man told you to lick salt off me, but he didn't say where you would be licking the salt from.

Elizabeth Morgan