Robert M. Pirsig Quotes

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

You stopped looking for the truth...I'd guess that's a sin we've all been guilty of.

My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

I definitely invented the everything bagel. There's no doubt. It's undeniable truth. It's one of those things that's 100% true, 50% of the time.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

He occasionally stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened.

Between knowing and not knowing is not wanting to know.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

Chimere's not mine. That hurt 'cause I had attached myself to this guy, you know. This is my son. I'm looking at him, and I'm picturing I'm gonna be old, and he's gonna be - this is my son! It's not my son.

I don't lie," I lied.

If you consider yourself a friend, dont tell me." Because if i know the rumors, i'll feel like i have to confront the. and right this second i want to live in ignorant bliss.

Men often stumble onto the truth but then quickly dust themselves off and hurry away.

I'm not stupid!" In Bean's experience, that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.

The only the way that you can live and function without seeing the facts in front of you is to put yourself in a constant state of denial.

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

I am always amazed by people who know something is wrong but still insist on ignoring it, as if that will somehow make it go away. They spare themselves the confrontation, but end up boiling in resentment anyway.

Just about everything in this world is easier said than done, with the exception of 'systematically assisting Sisyphus's stealthy, syst-susceptible sister,' which is easier done than said.

I am too much in love with my lies and hypocrisies not to confess them fervently.

The truth that many people never understand until it is too late is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer.