Inescapable Truth Quotes

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Things as certain as death and taxes, can be more firmly believed.

There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from these four mountains of birth, old age, sickness and death.

NOW is a fact that cannot be dodged.

How can you hide from what never goes away?

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched behind one now stretches before him.

Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?

And so it's inescapable and people who proclaim scrupulous honesty can only proclaim that if they don't examine closely the things they believe.

The truths I shun follow me, mumbling.

Life's harsh. You can't escape what you are and what you project.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.

For there is a truth which cannot be bought or sold, imposed by force, resisted or escaped.

At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink.

No authority is higher than reality.

Let it be. Silly song, really. You let it be, it returns. There's the truth. You let it be, it drags you to the ground. You let it be, it crawls up your walls.

Cruelty is the law pervading all nature and society; and we can't get out of it if we would.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

The facts of life are very stubborn things.

The facts are to blame, my friend. We are all imprisoned by facts: I was born, I exist.

Death, of course, is a refuge. It's where you go when a new name, or a mask and cape, can no longer hide you from yourself. It's where you run to when none of the principalities of your conscience will grant you asylum.