Superstitious Fancy

She told herself always that it did not matter what he did, but she had repeated the statement so often in her mind that long ago she had become suspicious of its truth. (Paul Bowles, The Sheltering Sky, 9th ed. 1990, p. 40)

Truer and Wiselier

You have spoken truer than you purposed. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should. (William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II Scene 1)

Von der Wahrheit kriegt man kalte Füße

Wahrheit ist wie eine Decke, bei der man immer kalte Füße bekommt. Sie ist immer zu kurz, egal, wie sehr man sie zieht. Egal, was du tust, du kannst dich nie ganz mit ihr zudecken.