truth is stranger than fiction

Meaning

1. used to say that things that actually happen are often more surprising than stories that are invented

In the movies · 1

• The one thing that this job has taught me is that truth is stranger than fiction.Predestination2014

From the same entry

• if truth be known
• in truth
• nothing could be further from the truth
• to tell the truth
• truth will out
• bend the truth
• economical with the truth
• the moment of truth