William Faulkner Quotes

The end of confession is to tell the truth to and for oneself.

I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.

I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.

She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.

I am the only real truth I know.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.

Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.

The danger is not lest the soul should doubt whether there is any bread, but lest, by a lie, it should persuade itself that it is not hungry.

Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

I must find a truth that is true for me.

It's hard to accept the truth, especially about yourself.

When human beings distance themselves from their own inner truth and the truth around them, we can't see ourselves in our true light and that is to our detriment.

We are a culture of people who've bought into the idea that if we stay busy enough, the truth of our lives won't catch up with us.

You must know for yourself, directly, the truth of yourself and you cannot realize it through another, however great. There is no authority that can reveal it.

A lie may fool someone else, but it tells you the truth: you're weak.

Truth is within ourselves.

Men must be honest with themselves before they can be honest with others. A man who is not honest with himself presents a hopeless case.

If you have found your truth within yourself there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.

There comes a point when things are undeniable and can't be hidden any longer. Even from yourself.

One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.