Truth Quote by Roman Payne — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Be there a picnic for the devil,”

“It’s not that we have to quit”

“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”

“In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.”

“When I met a truly beautiful girl, I would tell her that if she spent the night with me, I would write a novel or a story about her. This usually worked; and if her name was to be in the title of the story, it almost always worked. Then, later, when we'd passed a night of delicious love-making together, after she’d gone and I’d felt that feeling of happiness mixed with sorrow, I sometimes would write a book or story about her. Sometimes her character, her way about herself, her love-making, it sometimes marked me so heavily that I couldn't go on in life and be happy unless I wrote a book or a story about that woman, the happy and sad memory of that woman. That was the only way to keep her, and to say goodbye to her without her ever leaving.”

“Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.”

“A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.”

“Always ask yourself: "What will happen if I say nothing?”

“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.”

“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”

“If the difference between guys and men is still unclear, here are a few examples that apply to dating:”