I keep reading between the lies.
- Goodman Ace
I tilted my face forward, unable to speak the lie that would make him go away, or the truth that would make him stay. - Shadowborn
- Jocelyn Adams
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Theodor Adorno
Books do pretend...but squeezed in between is even more that is truewithout what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
- Matthew Pearl
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
- James Joyce
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
- Jodi Picoult
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
- Jodi Picoult
Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.
- Cassandra Clare
It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
- David Allan
you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction
- Isabel Allende
The weight of the lie was so great it almost didn't escape my lips and barely made it to her ears
- Virginia C Andrews
Some things are best left...unknown, you know? People search for answers and they don't always like what they get. Sometimes the truth is worse than the lie.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
We'd both been stripped of all the evasiveness, all the lies, everything we'd ever kept from each other. Layer by layer, we had given up our defenses and our excuses and our demands for whys and hows, and what was left were two broken beings. Clinging to one last shred of hope. Tethered to each other.
- Brodi Ashton
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
- Thomas Carlyle
All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.
- W H Auden
But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.
- Francis Bacon
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
- Richard Bach
The lie is a condition of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.
- Julianna Baggott
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
- Banksy
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.
- Muriel Barbery
But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.
- Brad Barkley
I survived. 'He survived to tell the tale'--that's what people say, don't they? History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated.
- Julian Barnes
History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
- Julian Barnes
History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.
- Julian Barnes
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?'
'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.
'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated....
'Finn?'
'"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)
- Julian Barnes
Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane)
It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
...It's not the lies that hurt people. It's the willingness of everyone else to believe them...
Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
- Albert Camus
I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?"
Maybe... if it's an evil guinea pig.
- Frank Beddor
People are by and large a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
- Haruki Murakami
What most moved me in his letter was the sense of frustration that permeated the lieutenent's words: the frustration of never quite being able to depict or explain anything to his full satisfaction.
- Haruki Murakami
How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. p.498
- Haruki Murakami
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
- Yogi Berra
Yet complicated people were getting wet - not only the shepherds. For instance, the piano-tuner was sopping. So was the vicar's wife. So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battlesden car. Gallantry, charity, and art pursued their various missions, perspiring and muddy, while out on the slopes beyond them stood the eternal man and the eternal dog, guarding eternal sheep until the world is vegetarian.
- E M Forster
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?
- Sarah Blake
It is the story I hoped to tell. It is the story that lies around the edges of the photograph, or at the end of the newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news come toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?
- Sarah Blake
To deal with the word of Jesus otherwise than by doing it is to give him the lie. It is to deny the Sermon on the Mount and to say No to his word...That is why as soon as the hurricane begins we lose the word, and find that we have never really believed it. The word we had was not Christ's, but a word we had wrested from him and made our own by reflecting on it instead of doing it.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
- Libba Bray
Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F Kennedy
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
- John F Kennedy
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
- H Rap Brown
in the cupboard sits my bottle
like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers.
I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,
sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere,
the phone rings gamboling its sound
against the odds of the crooked sea;
I drink deeply and evenly now,
I drink to paradise
and death
and the lie of love.
- Charles Bukowski
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on..
- Voltaire
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
- Voltaire
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
- Orson Scott Card
Sometimes the lies could be more reliable than the truth
- Orson Scott Card
But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
- Ally Carter
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
- Giacomo Casanova
He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing. I love him.
It's his face and sometimes the way his eyes turn up to mine that make me feel as if
things are really okay. It's a lie, of course-things are not okay and never have been-but
my kid makes me believe the lie.
- Stephen King
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
- Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Stephen King
Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.
- Andrew Clements
I understand why Laura did what she did. I think I'm supposed to be mad at her, but I'm not. I admire her courage. She saw what the world had to offer and said, No thank you. She saw the lies and hypocrisy and violence and hate and meaningless of it all and she chose another path. She won't live to see her grandchildren, but also won't live to see them suffer.
- Rachel Cohn
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!
- Terry Pratchett
5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*
- Terry Pratchett
[...] Lachlain said, "Before you go, I wanted to pass on some advice. Emma told me that to win your mate, you have to accept Regin. The two are thick as thieves. Always have been. Since they were children."
"So calling Regin a glowing bluidy freak dinna help my cause? On top of the lie? Christ, I've bollixed this up.
- Kresley Cole
...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
- Glen Cook
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
- Douglas Coupland
The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.
- Justin Cronin
It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.
- Justin Cronin
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
- Ice Cube
I remember I've never shared tears with someone that longed
for (me) and loved me; I didn't know how to be compassionate.
(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)
- Chimnese Davids
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
- Don Delillo
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end
- Lauren Destefano
Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.
- Philip K Dick
No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.
- Franz Kafka
Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas
- Dylan Thomas
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease, until He returns?
- Bob Dylan
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King Jr
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
- Kim Edwards
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedif all records told the same talethen the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.
- George Orwell
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
- George Orwell
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
- John Irving
People rarely thank you for opening their eyes up to the lies they are comfortable living with
- C J Ellisson
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
- Gillian Flynn
Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.
- Gillian Flynn
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?"
The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War."
None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated.
Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck."
Ah. Now I remembered.
- James Patterson
I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
- Lady Gaga
We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in a way to signal those lies that could be more accurately described as dreams. Lies they make for a tidy little psychological Doppler effect, tell us more about a liar than an undistorted self-report ever could.
- Rivka Galchen
next up was my spiritual home of liverpool.great show.magnificent crowd.they never let you down those scousers.while im at it let me say i am writing this on the day that THE TRUTH has finally been exposed about the hillsborough disaster.respect to all the familys of the 96 for exposing the lies of thatchers government.with hand on heart i salute you.xxxxxx
- Noel Gallagher
The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.
- George R R Martin
...and when you've known me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say." "Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies.
- George R R Martin
The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.
- Joseph Goebbels
the truth is bury when u look into the mirror but the lies are getting clearer
Your eyes fixed,your smile so elastic
he gave me roses but there all just made of plastic!!!!!
- Selena Gomez
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
- John Grierson
Shame usually follows a patterna cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we arenot just something we've done, or had done to usand we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recoverthat, in fact, we don't even deserve to.
- Craig Groeschel
Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other.
- Nikolai Grozni
Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!'
'I don't do portraits, Choe.'
The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors.
- M John Harrison
He's twisting everything. He's killing himself, killing innocents so that he can have his Gris-damned revenge on my brother.
"This isn't about saving the Hobs," I hiss at him. "And it never was."
"No," he says, and he grins. His eyes are frightened, giving the lie to his cheer. "But I did always love a good spectacle.
- Cat Hellisen
We know of no spectacle more ridiculousor more contemptiblethan that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.
- Christopher Hitchens
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
- Adolf Hitler
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
- Leon Trotsky
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.
- Alice Hoffman
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogsI was a man before I was a king.
- Robert E Howard
Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
- Nikki Sixx
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
- Derrick Jensen
A blanket could be used to find the Brick of Truth. Many lies will be layered on the Brick of Truth to try to cover it up, but the blanket will cover up all the lies, thus covering up the cover up and thereby revealing the Brick of Truth. And don't try to steal the covers, because the blanket will only provide warmth to the Brick of Truth.
- Jarod Kintz
He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he's not still hungry.
- Jarod Kintz
My eyes in tears
Heart never sighs
My mind never fears
I conquer the lies
- Munia Khan
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
- Martin Luther
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
- Alveda King
Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?
- Dexter S King
You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us.
- Markus Zusak
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso
There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.
- Chad Kultgen
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
- Tim Lahaye
The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
- Derek Landy
The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become and evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"
"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"
"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
- Derek Landy
This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.
- C S Lewis
The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane or put your children on a plane if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.
- Rush Limbaugh
Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in the hour that just causes collide, good men will rise up and leap into the fray, and the clash of their meeting will shake the heavens. And their blood will flow like rivers.
- Holly Lisle
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
- Adolf Loos
...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
- Barry Lyga
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
- Cormac Mccarthy
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.
- Cormac Mccarthy
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
- Charles Manson
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
- Marilyn Manson
Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?
- Stephenie Meyer
The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I'll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
- Courtney Milan
My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
- David Millar
The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a voluntary human metamorphosis and becoming "part-Indian." 95% would become proven liars by a simple DNA test, but their children grow up believing the lie. Abandoning the White race means not having to fight for it or defend it in any way.
- Frazier Glenn Miller
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
- Karen Marie Moning
It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.
- Karen Marie Moning
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
- Charles Edward Montague
We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.
- Beth Moore
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
- Robin Morgan
But still we rode; rode that ferry for the lies and the dreams we didn't want to die because we were kids, and kids live on dreams.
- S L Naeole
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.
- Azar Nafisi
As I was escorted outside by the officers, my friends looked back at me with blank expressions. I don't think they knew what to say to me. I had lied to them about my home life. They had always been there for me and probably would have understood if I had told them the truth from the start, but it was too late. All the lies I had told them about having a perfect family had been shattered by that one incident.
- Jen Naumann
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
- Jonathan Nolan
CEASE FIRE,' Captain Johansen shouted. 'Cease fire, what's wrong with you guys? Stop wasting the goddamn ammo. CEASE FIRE!'
Cease fire,' the lieutenants hollered.
Cease fire,' the platoon sergeants hollered.
Cease the goddamn fire,' shouted the squad leaders.
That,' I told Barney, 'is the chain of command.
- Tim O Brien
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
- Tim O Brien
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
- Jean Oleary
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
- Eugene O Neill
I'm going to hell for the lies I tell.
- Kelly Oram
...I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.
- Grace Paley
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
- Gilbert Parker
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.
- Frank Peretti
To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, inappropriate outbursts of anger over the lies little girls are told about what is beautiful.
- Stacy Pershall
If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably rightit would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.
- Daniel Quinn
But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
- Anne Rice
Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
- Anne Rice
Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. "Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad."
"Where is she?"
"She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and...she apologized to me. Something must be done.
- J D Robb
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
- Gregory David Roberts
I wrapped my arms around him and held on as hard as I could. He was my tormentor and my solace: the creator of the dark and the light within. I didn't care that he would undoubtedly hurt me at any moment, right now; I just needed somebody to hold me... To tell me these exact words. Its going to be okay. It wasn't of course, I knew that. But I didn't care, I needed the lie.
- C J Roberts
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
- Boyle Roche
There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
- Philip Roth
humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
- Todd Rundgren
He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough
- Will Self
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.
- Fulton J Sheen
Dr. Gregory goes much further; he actually recommends dissimulation, and advises an innocent girl to give the lie to her feelings, and not dance with spirit, when gaiety of would make her feet eloquent without making her gestures immodest. In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise then another?
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?
Maybe the lies are all that we've got
But aren't they beautiful?
- Sarah Slean
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The most brazen lie of all is the lie people tell themselves: "I have nothing to worry about from the wrath of God. My God is a God of love." If that is your thought, your god is an idol.
- R C Sproul
How we got together, the lies, the betrayals.. we doomed ourselves before we even started." He shook his head. "We love each other so much... and we don't trust each other at all.
- S C Stephens
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
- Dejan Stojanovic
She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again.
- Cheryl Strayed
I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.
- Lionel Suggs
Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
- Elie Wiesel
You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?
- David Foster Wallace
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
- Scott Westerfeld
And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into..
- Tennessee Williams
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
- James Wolcott
I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.
- Aileen Wuornos
If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.
- Roger Zelazny
- Goodman Ace
I tilted my face forward, unable to speak the lie that would make him go away, or the truth that would make him stay. - Shadowborn
- Jocelyn Adams
Art is magic delivered from the lie of being truth.
- Theodor Adorno
Books do pretend...but squeezed in between is even more that is truewithout what you may call the lies, the pages would be too light for the truth, you see?
- Matthew Pearl
And when all was said and done the lies a fellow told about himself couldn't probably hold a proverbial candle to the wholesale whoppers other fellows coined about him.
- James Joyce
In this new place we've found, sometimes there aren't words, because the truth can be even more difficult than the lies.
- Jodi Picoult
In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
- Jodi Picoult
Demons feed on death and pain madness," Valentine said. "When I kill, it is because I must. You grew up in a falsely beautiful paradise surrounded by fragile glass walls, my daughter. Your mother created the world she wanted to live in and she brought you up in it, but she never told you it was an illusion. And all the time the demons waited with their weapons of blood and terror to smash the glass and pull you free of the lie.
- Cassandra Clare
It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
- David Allan
you can tell the deepest truths with the lies of fiction
- Isabel Allende
The weight of the lie was so great it almost didn't escape my lips and barely made it to her ears
- Virginia C Andrews
Some things are best left...unknown, you know? People search for answers and they don't always like what they get. Sometimes the truth is worse than the lie.
- Jennifer L Armentrout
We'd both been stripped of all the evasiveness, all the lies, everything we'd ever kept from each other. Layer by layer, we had given up our defenses and our excuses and our demands for whys and hows, and what was left were two broken beings. Clinging to one last shred of hope. Tethered to each other.
- Brodi Ashton
The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
- Thomas Carlyle
All I have is a voice to undo the folded lie, the romantic lie in the brain of the sensual man-in-the-street and the lie of Authority whose buildings grope the sky: There is no such thing as the State and no one exists alone; Hunger allows no choice to the citizen or the police; We must love one another or die.
- W H Auden
But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth, nor again that when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.
- Francis Bacon
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.
- Richard Bach
The lie is a condition of life.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.
- Julianna Baggott
At this time of year it's easy to forget the true meaning of Christianity - the lies, the corruption, the abuse.
- Banksy
In our world, that's the way you live your grown-up life: you must constantly rebuild your identity as an adult, the way it's been put together it is wobbly, ephemeral, and fragile, it cloaks despair and, when you're alone in front of the mirror, it tells you the lies you need to believe.
- Muriel Barbery
But how he acts, and what he says, and what he does, and who he is, they don't line up anymore, and the lie is in that not lining up, the lie is in not being what she needs but pretending that he is. No one says a word, and she sees it every minute they have together.
- Brad Barkley
I survived. 'He survived to tell the tale'--that's what people say, don't they? History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious nor defeated.
- Julian Barnes
History isn't the lies of the victors, as I once glibly assured Old Joe Hunt; I know that now. It's more the memories of the survivors, most of whom are neither victorious or defeated.
- Julian Barnes
History: the lies of the victors, the self-delusions of the defeated.
- Julian Barnes
What is history? Any thoughts, Webster?'
'History is the lies of the victors,' I replied, a little too quickly.
'Yes, I was rather afraid you'd say that. Well, as long as you remember that it is also the self-delusions of the defeated....
'Finn?'
'"History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation." (quoting Patrick Lagrange)
- Julian Barnes
Believe me, lady, my strength is the one thing I never doubt. (Vane)
It's amazing the lies we tell other people, isn't it? (Sunshine's grandmother)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
...It's not the lies that hurt people. It's the willingness of everyone else to believe them...
Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
- Albert Camus
I tell you to think black thoughts and you come up with that?!" the lieutenant had screamed. "Is a guinea pig bad? Do you consider a guinea pig the representation of all that is evil?"
Maybe... if it's an evil guinea pig.
- Frank Beddor
People are by and large a product of where they were born and raised. How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even.
- Haruki Murakami
What most moved me in his letter was the sense of frustration that permeated the lieutenent's words: the frustration of never quite being able to depict or explain anything to his full satisfaction.
- Haruki Murakami
How you think and feel's always linked to the lie of the land, the temperature. The prevailing winds, even. p.498
- Haruki Murakami
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
- Yogi Berra
Yet complicated people were getting wet - not only the shepherds. For instance, the piano-tuner was sopping. So was the vicar's wife. So were the lieutenant and the peevish damsels in his Battlesden car. Gallantry, charity, and art pursued their various missions, perspiring and muddy, while out on the slopes beyond them stood the eternal man and the eternal dog, guarding eternal sheep until the world is vegetarian.
- E M Forster
A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.
- William Blake
It is the story that lies around the edges of the photographs, or at the end of newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news comes toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?
- Sarah Blake
It is the story I hoped to tell. It is the story that lies around the edges of the photograph, or at the end of the newspaper account. It's about the lies we tell others to protect them, and about the lies we tell ourselves in order not to acknowledge what we can't bear: that we are alive, for instance, and eating lunch, while bombs are falling, and refugees are crammed into camps, and the news come toward us every hour of the day. And what, in the end, do we do?
- Sarah Blake
To deal with the word of Jesus otherwise than by doing it is to give him the lie. It is to deny the Sermon on the Mount and to say No to his word...That is why as soon as the hurricane begins we lose the word, and find that we have never really believed it. The word we had was not Christ's, but a word we had wrested from him and made our own by reflecting on it instead of doing it.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
They kept the lie going, and the people loved it.
- Libba Bray
Once you start thinking about the lies people tell when they don't know they're telling them, the truths people reveal when they think they're lying, then you can start to build a world.
- Sarah Rees Brennan
The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.
- John F Kennedy
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F Kennedy
No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.
- John F Kennedy
One of the lies that we tell ourselves is that we're making progress; but Huey's chair's empty.
- H Rap Brown
in the cupboard sits my bottle
like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers.
I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony,
sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere,
the phone rings gamboling its sound
against the odds of the crooked sea;
I drink deeply and evenly now,
I drink to paradise
and death
and the lie of love.
- Charles Bukowski
What is history? The lie that everyone agrees on..
- Voltaire
History is the lie commonly agreed upon.
- Voltaire
The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
- Orson Scott Card
Sometimes the lies could be more reliable than the truth
- Orson Scott Card
But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
- Ally Carter
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
- Giacomo Casanova
He ran back and I watched him go, legs pumping, soles of his zori showing. I love him.
It's his face and sometimes the way his eyes turn up to mine that make me feel as if
things are really okay. It's a lie, of course-things are not okay and never have been-but
my kid makes me believe the lie.
- Stephen King
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
- Stephen King
Fiction is the truth inside the lie.
- Stephen King
Sooner or later,reality does occor and when it does, all the lies show up, like blood on snow.
- Andrew Clements
I understand why Laura did what she did. I think I'm supposed to be mad at her, but I'm not. I admire her courage. She saw what the world had to offer and said, No thank you. She saw the lies and hypocrisy and violence and hate and meaningless of it all and she chose another path. She won't live to see her grandchildren, but also won't live to see them suffer.
- Rachel Cohn
I don't want unnecessary violence, sergeant," said Blouse.
"Right you are, sir!" said the sergeant. "Carborundum! First man comes through that door runnin', I want him nailed to the wall!" He caught the lieutenant's eye, and added: "But not too hard!
- Terry Pratchett
5.Buggre Alle this for a Larke I amme sick to mye Hart of typefetinge. Master Biltonn if no Gentelmann, and Master Scagges now more that a tighte fisted Southwarke Knobbefticke. I telle you, onne a daye laike thif Ennywone withe half and oz of Sense shoulde bee oute in the Suneshain, ane nott Stucke here alle the lielong dale inn thif mowldey olde By-Our-Lady Workefhoppe *AE@;I*
- Terry Pratchett
[...] Lachlain said, "Before you go, I wanted to pass on some advice. Emma told me that to win your mate, you have to accept Regin. The two are thick as thieves. Always have been. Since they were children."
"So calling Regin a glowing bluidy freak dinna help my cause? On top of the lie? Christ, I've bollixed this up.
- Kresley Cole
...and the thing that you know to be true is the lie that will kill you.
- Glen Cook
With the first drink comes the truth, with the second drink comes wishful thinking, and with the third drink come the lies.
- Douglas Coupland
The lie had worked so far, but Lacey felt its softness, like a floor of rotten boards beneath her feet.
- Justin Cronin
It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.
- Justin Cronin
Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.
- Ice Cube
I remember I've never shared tears with someone that longed
for (me) and loved me; I didn't know how to be compassionate.
(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)
- Chimnese Davids
How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?
- Don Delillo
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end
- Lauren Destefano
Any system which says, This is a rotten world, wait for the next, give up, do nothing, succumb--that may be the basic Lie and if we participate in believing it and acting (or rather not acting) on it we involve ourselves in the Lie and suffer dreadfully... which only reinforces that particular Lie.
- Philip K Dick
No," said the priest, "you don't need to accept everything as true, you only have to accept it as necessary." "Depressing view," said K. "The lie made into the rule of the world.
- Franz Kafka
Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas
- Dylan Thomas
Now, I know from experience that the trouble with one lie is that it usually takes more lies to cover it up. And if you don't watch out, you wind up telling lies to cover up the lies that are covering up the original lie.
- Wendelin Van Draanen
How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease, until He returns?
- Bob Dylan
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.
- Martin Luther King Jr
It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.
- Kim Edwards
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposedif all records told the same talethen the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.
- George Orwell
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve.
- George Orwell
The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.
- George Orwell
The lie, of course, is more interesting.
- John Irving
People rarely thank you for opening their eyes up to the lies they are comfortable living with
- C J Ellisson
I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
The worst feeling: when you just have to wait and prepare yourself for the lie.
- Gillian Flynn
Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.
- Gillian Flynn
I hate war for its consequences, for the lies it lives on and propagates, for the undying hatreds it arouses.
- Harry Emerson Fosdick
I had a question. "Why does the name Pearl Harbor sound so familiar?"
The lieutenant colonel's eyes narrowed. "Pearl Harbor is the most famous U.S. military base in the world," he said crisply. "It's the only place on U.S. soil that has been attacked in a wars, since the Revolutionary War."
None of this was ringing a bell, but you already know I'm totally uneducated.
Gazzy leaned over to whisper, "It was a movie with Ben Affleck."
Ah. Now I remembered.
- James Patterson
I used to walk down the street like I was a fucking star... I want people to walk around delusional about how great they can be - and then to fight so hard for it every day that the lie becomes the truth.
- Lady Gaga
We need to develop a better descriptive vocabulary for lying, a taxonomy, a way to distinguish intentional lies from unintentional ones, and a way to distinguish the lies that the liar himself believes in a way to signal those lies that could be more accurately described as dreams. Lies they make for a tidy little psychological Doppler effect, tell us more about a liar than an undistorted self-report ever could.
- Rivka Galchen
next up was my spiritual home of liverpool.great show.magnificent crowd.they never let you down those scousers.while im at it let me say i am writing this on the day that THE TRUTH has finally been exposed about the hillsborough disaster.respect to all the familys of the 96 for exposing the lies of thatchers government.with hand on heart i salute you.xxxxxx
- Noel Gallagher
The lies we tell for love, he thought. May the gods forgive me.
- George R R Martin
...and when you've known me longer, you'll learn that I mean everything I say." "Even the lies?"
"Especially the lies.
- George R R Martin
The bigger the lie, the more people will believe it.
- Joseph Goebbels
the truth is bury when u look into the mirror but the lies are getting clearer
Your eyes fixed,your smile so elastic
he gave me roses but there all just made of plastic!!!!!
- Selena Gomez
The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.
- John Grierson
Shame usually follows a patterna cycle of self-recrimination and lies that claims life after life. First, we experience an intensely painful event. Second, we believe the lie that our pain and failure is who we arenot just something we've done, or had done to usand we experience shame. And finally, our feelings of shame trap us into thinking that we can never recoverthat, in fact, we don't even deserve to.
- Craig Groeschel
Because if we were all created idealists, then life was bound to be one relentless disappointment. But then, there was also music. We unlearned the lies with one hand and repeated them with the other.
- Nikolai Grozni
Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!'
'I don't do portraits, Choe.'
The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors.
- M John Harrison
He's twisting everything. He's killing himself, killing innocents so that he can have his Gris-damned revenge on my brother.
"This isn't about saving the Hobs," I hiss at him. "And it never was."
"No," he says, and he grins. His eyes are frightened, giving the lie to his cheer. "But I did always love a good spectacle.
- Cat Hellisen
We know of no spectacle more ridiculousor more contemptiblethan that of the religious reactionaries who dare to re-write the history of our republic. Or who try to do so. Is it possible that, in their vanity and stupidity, they suppose that they can erase the name of Thomas Jefferson and replace it with the name of some faith-based mediocrity whose name is already obscure? If so, we cheerfully resolve to mock them, and to give them the lie in their teeth.
- Christopher Hitchens
Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.
- Adolf Hitler
Tell me anyway--Maybe I can find the truth by comparing the lies.
- Leon Trotsky
It's not the lie that's the problem; it's the distance the lie forges between you.
- Alice Hoffman
What do I know of cultured ways, the gilt, the craft and the lie?
I, who was born in a naked land and bred in the open sky.
The subtle tongue, the sophist guile, they fail when the broadswords sing;
Rush in and die, dogsI was a man before I was a king.
- Robert E Howard
Which side of the blade is sharper? The lie or the truth? It all seems irrelevant when your jugular is sliced open and you're lying in a pool of blood for the whole world to see.
- Nikki Sixx
For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.
- Derrick Jensen
A blanket could be used to find the Brick of Truth. Many lies will be layered on the Brick of Truth to try to cover it up, but the blanket will cover up all the lies, thus covering up the cover up and thereby revealing the Brick of Truth. And don't try to steal the covers, because the blanket will only provide warmth to the Brick of Truth.
- Jarod Kintz
He seemed to swallow the lie I fed him. I hope he's not still hungry.
- Jarod Kintz
My eyes in tears
Heart never sighs
My mind never fears
I conquer the lies
- Munia Khan
The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands
- Martin Luther
Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.
- Alveda King
Isn't it funny how we live inside the lies we believe?
- Dexter S King
You know,' she begins, 'you fellas ought to be looking after each other.' Her comment makes me realise that through the lies, the greatest irony is that we are looking out for each other. It's just that in the end, we're letting her down. That's what injures us.
- Markus Zusak
Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
- Pablo Picasso
There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.
- Chad Kultgen
It's the lie of evolution that all man are just evolved and that they're all equal, and that all creatures are equal.
- Tim Lahaye
The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
- Derek Landy
The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become and evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"
"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"
"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.
- Derek Landy
This is my password," said the King as he drew his sword. "The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia.
- C S Lewis
The worst of all of this is the lie that condoms really protect against AIDS. The condom failure rate can be as high as 20 percent. Would you get on a plane or put your children on a plane if one of five passengers would be killed on the flight? Well, the statistic holds for condoms, folks.
- Rush Limbaugh
Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in the hour that just causes collide, good men will rise up and leap into the fray, and the clash of their meeting will shake the heavens. And their blood will flow like rivers.
- Holly Lisle
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.
- Adolf Loos
...She's not buying [the lie], but there's nothing else on the shelves.
- Barry Lyga
I think that when the lies are all told and forgot the truth will be there yet. It dont move about from place to place and it dont change from time to time. You cant corrupt it any more than you can salt salt.
- Cormac Mccarthy
Years later he'd stood in the charred ruins of a library where blackened books lay in pools of water. Shelves tipped over. Some rage at the lies arranged in their thousands row on row. He picked up one of the books and thumbed through the heavy bloated pages. He'd not have thought the value of the smallest thing predicated on a world to come. It surprised him. That the space which these things occupied was itself an expectation.
- Cormac Mccarthy
I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.
- Charles Manson
Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.
- Marilyn Manson
Why can you believe the lie, but not the truth?
- Stephenie Meyer
The dog looked up in entreaty. Liquid brown eyes begged: Take me with you. I'll be good. Oh, the lies that dogs told.
- Courtney Milan
My epiphany came in that police cell: I realised I was about to lose everything and it didn't bother me, not in the slightest. I'd come to hate cycling because I blamed it for the lie I was living.
- David Millar
The acknowledgement of White cowardice has driven literally tens of millions of White Americans to try to escape it by undergoing a voluntary human metamorphosis and becoming "part-Indian." 95% would become proven liars by a simple DNA test, but their children grow up believing the lie. Abandoning the White race means not having to fight for it or defend it in any way.
- Frazier Glenn Miller
It's often only in the lies we refuse to speak that any truth can be heard at all.
- Karen Marie Moning
It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.
- Karen Marie Moning
A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
- Charles Edward Montague
We're going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.
- Beth Moore
Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.
- Robin Morgan
But still we rode; rode that ferry for the lies and the dreams we didn't want to die because we were kids, and kids live on dreams.
- S L Naeole
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem.
- Azar Nafisi
As I was escorted outside by the officers, my friends looked back at me with blank expressions. I don't think they knew what to say to me. I had lied to them about my home life. They had always been there for me and probably would have understood if I had told them the truth from the start, but it was too late. All the lies I had told them about having a perfect family had been shattered by that one incident.
- Jen Naumann
Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.
- Jonathan Nolan
CEASE FIRE,' Captain Johansen shouted. 'Cease fire, what's wrong with you guys? Stop wasting the goddamn ammo. CEASE FIRE!'
Cease fire,' the lieutenants hollered.
Cease fire,' the platoon sergeants hollered.
Cease the goddamn fire,' shouted the squad leaders.
That,' I told Barney, 'is the chain of command.
- Tim O Brien
Fiction is the lie that helps us understand the truth.
- Tim O Brien
Our invisibility is the essence of our oppression. And until we eliminate that invisibility, people are going to be able to perpetuate the lies and myths about gay people.
- Jean Oleary
To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
- Eugene O Neill
I'm going to hell for the lies I tell.
- Kelly Oram
...I go through a story for lies. I might discover the lie of trying to show off. Sometimes they're lies of character. Sometimes they are lies of writing the most beautiful sentence in the world that has nothing to do with the story.
- Grace Paley
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech.
- Gilbert Parker
The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.
- Frank Peretti
To anyone who thinks eating disorders are something rich, bored white girls do to get attention, I bid you bite me. I have frequent, intense, inappropriate outbursts of anger over the lies little girls are told about what is beautiful.
- Stacy Pershall
If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably rightit would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed.
- Daniel Quinn
But I lived a lie. I lived it out of anger. This is what I am trying to tell you. I have lived lies. I have done it again and again. I live lies because I cannot endure the weakness of anger and I cannot admit the irrationality of love. Oh the lies I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
- Anne Rice
Oh, the lies that I have told myself and others. I knew it yet I didn't know.
- Anne Rice
Unnerved, Summerset moved quickly to the communication center. "Roarke, the lieutenant has just come in from outside. She wore no outer gear. She looks very bad."
"Where is she?"
"She's heading up. Roarke, I insulted her and...she apologized to me. Something must be done.
- J D Robb
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
- Gregory David Roberts
I wrapped my arms around him and held on as hard as I could. He was my tormentor and my solace: the creator of the dark and the light within. I didn't care that he would undoubtedly hurt me at any moment, right now; I just needed somebody to hold me... To tell me these exact words. Its going to be okay. It wasn't of course, I knew that. But I didn't care, I needed the lie.
- C J Roberts
Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue.
- Boyle Roche
There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that the world is full of people who go around believing they've got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless. As are the lies.
- Philip Roth
humans are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. one of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz
There are some things that we know are just not as pleasant as the lies that we tell ourselves, and in that sense in order to endure existence everyone endures a certain amount of dishonesty in their everyday lives.
- Todd Rundgren
He parked in a nearby street and walked out on to the bridge. Below him the lights of London spread away in a wash of low wattage, Their dimness gave the lie to the very vastless of the city. Bull heard its distant roar, its night-time sough, its terminal cough
- Will Self
Very few people believe in the devil these days, which suits the devil very well. He is always helping to circulate the news of his own death. The essence of God is existence, and He defines Himself as: 'I am Who am.' The essence of the devil is the lie, and he defines himself as: 'I am who am not.' Satan has very little trouble with those who do not believe in him; they are already on his side.
- Fulton J Sheen
Dr. Gregory goes much further; he actually recommends dissimulation, and advises an innocent girl to give the lie to her feelings, and not dance with spirit, when gaiety of would make her feet eloquent without making her gestures immodest. In the name of truth and common sense, why should not one woman acknowledge that she can take more exercise then another?
- Mary Wollstonecraft
Is this the truth we knew, and then forgot?
Maybe the lies are all that we've got
But aren't they beautiful?
- Sarah Slean
Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
You can resolve to live your life with integrity. Let your credo be this: Let the lie come into the world, let it even triumph. But not through me.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The most brazen lie of all is the lie people tell themselves: "I have nothing to worry about from the wrath of God. My God is a God of love." If that is your thought, your god is an idol.
- R C Sproul
How we got together, the lies, the betrayals.. we doomed ourselves before we even started." He shook his head. "We love each other so much... and we don't trust each other at all.
- S C Stephens
In the lie of truth lies the truth.
- Dejan Stojanovic
She tried to think of what to say to make it all better again, or at least the way it was before she'd made her confession, though she didn't regret having confessed. Perhaps that was what had been wrong with her all along. Now that the lie wasn't between them anymore, maybe she could love him again.
- Cheryl Strayed
I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.
- Lionel Suggs
Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?
- Elie Wiesel
You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?
- David Foster Wallace
The lie took form as she spoke, pulling on as many strands of truth as it could reach.
- Scott Westerfeld
And so tonight we're going to make the lie true, and when that's done, I'll bring the liquor back here and we'll get drunk together, here, tonight, in this place that death has come into..
- Tennessee Williams
The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.
- James Wolcott
I wanted to clear all the lies and let the truth come out. I have hate crawling through my system.
- Aileen Wuornos
If you ever loved anything in your life, try to remember it. If you ever betrayed anything, pretend for a moment that you have been forgiven. If you ever feared anything, pretend for an instant that those days are gone and will never return. Buy the lie and hold to it for as long as you can. Press your familiar, whatever its name, to your breast and stroke it till it purrs.
- Roger Zelazny
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