“How can my limitations in humanity bring me the truth? How can I find truth that I don't know?”
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“How much of this truth can I bear to see and still live
unblinded?
How much of this pain
can I use?”
Source: Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

“It frightens me the awful truth of how sweet life can be.”
Song lyrics, Biograph (1985), Up to Me (recorded 1974)

“Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.”

“How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be
When there's no help in truth!”
Variant: Wisdom is a curse when wisdom does nothing for the man who has it.
Source: Oedipus Rex, Line 316.
“I try to find meaning anywhere I can. It's the only way I know how to validate my existence.”
Source: God-Shaped Hole