Truth Quote by Flannery O'Connor — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!”

“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”

“Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.”

“I preach there are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's, but behind all of them, there's only one truth and that is that there is no truth... No truth behind all truths is what I and this church preach! Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place... In yourself right now is all the place you've got.”

“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”

“Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.”

“If the truth brings chaos, then let there be chaos.”

“The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.”

“I wondered how many people there were in the world who suffered, and continued to suffer, because they could not break out from their own web of shyness and reserve, and in their blindness and folly built up a great distorted wall in front of them that hid the truth.”

“I only feel like myself when I am alone.”

“He didn't want to play football. He wanted to be told the truth.”