Letitia Elizabeth Landon on Truth
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“All profound truths startle you in their first announcement.”
“Truth is like the philosopher's stone, a thing not to be discovered.”
“… we like and require truth — always supposing and allowing that the said truth interferes neither with our interests nor our inclinations.”
“The awakening after such sleep is one of the most dreadful moments in life. A consciousness of something terrible is upon even the first sensation — a vague idea of the truth comes like the remembrance of a dream ; involuntarily the eyes close, as if to shut it out — the head sinks back on the pillow, as if to see whether another dream would not be a happier one. A gleam of light, a waving curtain, rouses the sleeper; the truth, the whole terrible truth, flashes out — and we start up as if we never could dream again.”