Home Truths Quotes

“Things are as they are, and no amount of self-deception makes them otherwise. The friend who is incapable of depression depresses us as surely as the friend who is incapable of boredom bores us. Somewhere in our hearts is a strong, though dimly understood, desire to face realities, and to measure consequences, to have done with the fatigue of pretending. It is not optimism to enjoy the view when one is treed by a bull; it is philosophy. The optimist would say that being treed was a valuable experience. The disciple of gladness would say it was a pleasurable sensation. The Christian Scientist would say there was no bull, though remaining–if he were wise–on the tree-top. The philosopher would make the best of a bad job, and seek what compensation he could find.”
― Agnes Repplier, Points of Friction

“Self-knowledge was the clearest thing in the world. It was also the unkindest.”
― Octavia Cade, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief

“ “They were all children, yes, as were the fiends who allowed themselves to be Hosted.”
 “But that happened in a wilder age, a less enlightened time,” Roger argued.
 “Do not make the mistake of thinking present society is so highly advanced that they have forgotten their baser instincts, Roger Knightley. Evil is evil no matter the century, or the world.”
― Melika Dannese Lux, Deadmarsh Fey

“Sybil was now banging on about how hard Humph worked and the havoc caused by boarding school fees for seven. Jack refrained from telling her that you would expect seven children to be more expensive to raise than one or two and that no one had an electric cattle prod on either her rump or Humph's as they herded their offspring into private schools.”
― Barbara Anderson, Portrait of the Artist's Wife

“...the prophet sings not of the end of the world but of what has been done and what will be done and what is being done to some but not others, that the world is always ending over and over again in one place but not another and that the end of the world is always a local event, it comes to your country and visits your town and knocks on the door of your house and becomes to others but some distant warning, a brief report on the news....”
― Lynch, Paul

“It always beats me why people attach so much importance to a dying wish. If there's one kind of wish that oughtn't to be taken any notice of, it's that, because it stands to reason that a man whose so sick he's going to die isn't in a fit state to go binding wishes on other people.”
― Patricia Wentworth, Lonesome Road