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"It is such a relief to be told the truth."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
Explore more quotes by Katherine Anne Porter
"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled."
"Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you."
"I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing."
"Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else."
"The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being."
"Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined."
"They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not."
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