The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains Quotes

“The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one way only, and that way is treacherous and hard. And if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will all take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk toward the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take.”

Calum MacInnes looked down at me and said nothing. Then, “You are wrong. The truth is a cave in the black mountains. There is one way there, and one only, and that way is treacherous and hard, and if you choose the wrong path you will die alone, on the mountainside.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“You ask me if I can forgive myself? I can forgive myself for many things.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“You can take your gold, but afterwards, things are, things are flat. There is less beauty in a rainbow, less meaning in a sermon, less joy in a kiss…Less.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“The islanders know how to find it. But they are too wise to come here, to take its gold. They say that the cave makes you evil: that each time you visit it, each time you enter to take gold, it eats the good in your soul, so they do not enter.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“Sometimes I think that truth is a place. In my mind, it is like a city: there can be a hundred roads, a thousand paths, that will all take you, eventually, to the same place. It does not matter where you come from. If you walk towards the truth, you will reach it, whatever path you take.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“I closed my eyes but the world became no darker.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“He was ready to fight. It is good to make people who are ready to fight angry.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“I am old now, or at least I'm no longer young. And everything I see reminds me of something else I've seen such that I see nothing for the first time. A bonny girl, her hair fiery red, reminds me only of another hundred such lasses I've seen and their mothers and what they were when they grew and what they looked like when they died. It is the curse of age that all things are reflections of other things.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“أغلقتُ عينيَّ، لكن العالَم لم يزدَد ظلمةً.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“الحقيقة كهف في الجبال السوداء. ثمة طريق واحد إلى هناك. طريق واحد فقط. وذلك الطريق شاقٌّ خَدَّاع. وإذا اخترتَ الطريق الخطأ فستموت وحيدًا على جانب الجبل.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“أحيانًا أحسب الحقيقة مكانًا. في ذهني أراها مثل المدينة؛ قد تضم مئة من الطرق وألفًا من الدروب التي تأخذك في النهاية إلى المكان نفسه. لا يهم من أين أتيتَ. إذا سرتَ نحو الحقيقة فستصل إليها، أيًّا كان السبيل الذي تسلكه.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains

“إنها لعنة التقدم في السن، أن تكون الأشياء كلها انعكاسًا لأشياء أخرى.”
― Neil Gaiman, The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains