“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”
"When one loves, it has nothing to do with sex."
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?"
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"I love you, but, because inexplicably I love in you something more than you - the object petit a - I mutilate you."
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"Love is giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it."
- Jacques Lacan
Love
"There is something in you I like more than yourself. Therefore, I must destroy you."
- Jacques Lacan
Self-awareness
"Hurt me with the truth. But never comfort me with a lie."
- Erza Scarlet
Honesty
"If you keep on hiding your true feelings, who is going to be happy? If you are sad, you should say it out loud!"
- Haruhi Fujioka
Honesty
"A romantic relationship requires honesty between a couple."
- Tzipi Livni
Honesty
"Always admit when you’re wrong. You’ll save thousands in therapy… and a few friendships too."
- Harvey Fierstein
Honesty
"A sister is a friend you don’t have to avoid the truth with."
- Michelle Malm
Honesty