Veritas Quotes

“My great fear in this life didn't have a name that I knew of. I was afraid of remaining exactly who I was, and that phobia instilled a shiver of fear into every one of my days. Something as simple as a fear of cats would have been a blessing.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“More than anything in this world, I wish I had been born rich. It would have made up for everything. I'd still be ugly, sure, but I'd be rich and ugly. I'd still be weak and dim and tongue-tied with women, but I'd be rich enough for them not to care. I'd no longer be a social misfit, I'd be eccentric. And most of all, I'd no longer be what I was, I'd be something different.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but in his face. —DIOGENES THE CYNIC”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“Class divisions as clear as those between Harrington and myself always bring out my best, or at least my most petty.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“You're no different than the rest of us, Victor. We all see ourselves as this dissatisfied thing, this ego, looking outside ourselves for just that one other thing that will make us complete. That job, that lover, that pot of money. Even enlightenment, as if that too is a thing we can grab hold of to complete what needs completing. There is always something, we believe, that will make us whole. But if you take a finite thing, like body and mind, and look for something outside it to make it complete, something like money or love or faith, what you are seeking is also just a finite thing. So you have a finite thing reaching for the infinite by grabbing for some other finite thing and you end up with nothing more than a deeper sense of dissatisfaction.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“History is a warning to ourselves, and only by remembering where we have been and how low we have fallen can we know to where we aspire,”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“I think that money it is the goal of cowards. Money is what you end up wanting if you don’t have putz enough to stand up and decide for yourself. Money is what they want you to want so that you will work for them every day of your life and buy what they sell and fill your house and your soul with their junk. It is for those without the courage to decide for themselves.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“Who is rich? As the scholar Ben Zoma once said, ‘He who is content with his lot.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“But isn’t it better to know the truth, no matter how vile?” He lifted up his head and cackled. “Whoever told you such nonsense? One kind lie is worth a thousand truths.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“There are truths, I know with all certainty, that I will never grasp, but that doesn’t make them any less true.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“Veritas, it’s called. Don’t you love it when”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“I had suspected there might be some shoe discarding so I made sure my socks were without holes that day.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“The other was short, thin, looking like a talent scout for a cemetery.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t you ecstatic?”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“History is a warning to ourselves, and only by remembering where we have been and how low we have fallen can we know to where we aspire, but we lose everything when it is history that drives us completely, as it drove Nat and his mother and her mother”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth

“Just as a sycamore thrusts out leaves, so this universe thrusts out humanity. Our individuality is mere illusion and we remain, all of us, always, part of the great tree of creation, just as it remains part of us. These are the truths I learned, my child, alongside Magee in Number 24 General Hospital, Étaples, and which I pass on, now, to you.”
― William Lashner, Bitter Truth