Truth Quote by Muriel Spark — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Without an ever-present sense of death life is insipid.”

“In fact, it was the religion of Calvin of which Sandy felt deprived, or rather a specified recognition of it. She desired this birthright; something definite to reject. It pervaded the place in proportion as it was unacknowledged. In some ways the most real and rooted people whom Sandy knew were Miss Gaunt and the Kerr sisters who made no evasions about their believe that Gold had planned for practically everybody before they were born an nasty surprise when they died. Later, when Sandy read John Calvin, she found that although popular conceptions of Calvinism were sometimes mistaken, in this particular there was no mistake, indeed it was but a mild understanding of the case, he having made it God's pleasure to implant in certain people an erroneous since of joy and salvation, so that their surprise at the end might be the nastier.”

“Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.”

“Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.”

“Comfort is no test of truth. Truth is often far from being comfortable.”

“Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.”

“Trust starts with truth and ends with truth.”

“As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?”

“Belief has nothing to do with facts,”

“Oh darling, don't be bitter. It's the first instinct of the weak.”