Rick Yancey Quotes

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield.

No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.

We also know how cruel the truth often is, and we wonder whether delusion is not more consoling.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

There is the devil at the door. I'm nearly going under, can't help but wonder who am I working for? No one's more enslaved now then the ones who falsely feel they are free. I've come to terms with the fact that nothing is what it seems. This life is an illusion. And everything you thought you knew isn't what it seems. Only truth will set you free. This new world has begun.

Truth could be violent, could strip you of dignity and hope just as quickly as a gun.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

Sometimes it seems like if you open up the door to reality and invite it in, it will just come flowing.

I open the door of the cell and go. I am so bowed I only see my feet, if I open my eyes, and between my legs a little trail of black dust. I say to myself that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.

Disillusionment means having no more misconceptions, false impressions, and false judgments in life; it means being free from these deceptions. Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.

The truth that makes us free is always ticking away like a time-bomb in the basement of everybody's church.

Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.

The truth has not so much set us free as it has ripped away a carefully constructed facade, leaving us naked to begin again.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Don't take shadows too seriously. Reality is your only safety. Continue to reject illusion.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.

Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.

That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.