Truth Quote by Daphne du Maurier — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“We've got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.”

“Truth was something intangible, unseen, which sometimes we stumbled upon and did not recognize, but was found, and held, and understood only by old people near their death, or sometimes by the very pure, the very young.”

“Then Deborah stood at the wicket gate, the boundary, and there was a woman with outstretched hand, demanding tickets.”

“He had the face of one who walks in his sleep, and for a wild moment the idea came to me that perhaps he was not normal, not altogether sane. There were people who had trances, I had surely heard of them, and they followed strange laws of which we could know nothing, they obeyed the tangled orders of their own sub-conscious minds. Perhaps he was one of them, and here we were within six feet of death.”

“They are not brave, the days when we are twenty-one. They are full of little cowardices, little fears without foundation, and one is so easily bruised, so swiftly wounded, one falls to the first barbed word. Today, wrapped in the complacent armor of approaching middle age, the infinitesimal pricks of day by day brush one lightly and are soon forgotten, but then - how a careless word would linger, becoming a fiery stigma, and how a look, a glance over a shoulder, branded themselves as things eternal.”

“To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.”

“Neel cuts in: "Where'd you grow up?”

“Every decent con man knows that the simplest truth is more powerful than even the most elaborate lie.”

“Who you are is speaking so loudly that I can't hear what you're saying”

“There is no rest for the humble except in despising the great, whose only thought of the people is inspired by self-interest or sadism.”

“If someone is really close with you, your getting upset or them getting upset is okay, and they don’t change because of it. It’s just part of the relationship. It happens. You deal with it.”