Awful Truth

Famous quotes containing the words awful and/or truth:

“I was the poison breather.
I was a professional,
but you saved me
from the awful babble
of that calling.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Why should you renounce your right to traverse the star-lit deserts of truth, of the premature comforts of an acre, house, and barn? Truth also has its roof, and bed, and board.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)