Lies Quotes

It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next. After all, it is an unbelievably real world, with Darwin scribbling his thoughts into books and telling us what monkeys we are. Each of us explores possibility, hungry for sustaining adoration, yet we know enough to render ourselves helpless. We strive and strain, bellow and believe, we learn, and everything we learn tells us the same thing: life is one great meaningful experience in a meaningless world. Brilliance has many parts, yet each part is incomplete. We live, heal and attempt to piece together a picture worth the price of our very lives. The picture I saw presented demonic executioners, who crippled those daring to look and consumed souls without defense. They’re everywhere. Some are people we know. Others are the great fears and addictions of our lives.

~ Christopher Hawke

A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

~ Dennis Sharpe

The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being - it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. In human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.

~ Graham Greene

Perception was easily accomplished, required little effort, and it never had to stand the test of reality.

~ Terry Goodkind

The beauty and gift of truth, is that it is not dependent upon your belief in order to remain true

~ A. Dragonblood

To seek truth requires one to ask the right questions. Those void of truth never ask about anything because their ego and arrogance prevent them from doing so. Therefore, they will always remain ignorant. Those on the right path to Truth are extremely heart-driven and childlike in their quest, always asking questions, always wanting to understand and know everything — and are not afraid to admit they don't know something. However, every truth seeker does need to breakdown their ego first to see Truth. If the mind is in the way, the heart won't see anything.

~ Suzy Kassem

It is as if Little Red Riding Hood had asked the wolf: Dear Grandmother, what is the truth for? And the wolf had replied: The truth helps me tell you better lies.

~ Sara Castro-Klarén

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop.

~ Denis Diderot

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth

~ Bo Bennett

It's exhausting, the energy it takes to unknow a truth.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth.

~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Truth is a risky proposition. It's the nature of mediocre human beings to believe that lies are necessary, that they serve a purpose, that truth is subversive, that candor is dangerous, that the very scaffold of communal life is supported by lies.

~ Anne Rice

But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help. By contrast, my lie needed me as much as I needed it, and so demanded the constancy of wedlock: Till death do us part.

~ Lionel Shriver

A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lullaby.

~ Toba Beta

Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure

~ Francis Bacon

Use truth to fight the lies. Use the heart to fight the mind.

~ Suzy Kassem

Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

In God's eyes, a man who teaches one truth and nothing else is more righteous than a man who teaches a million truths and one lie.

~ Criss Jami

It is much easier to believe lies than the truth. Why? asked Janna. Because lies are manufactured to satisfy the emotions. A mother would rather believe her pretty girl lazy than accept the fact that she's a dumb cluck. Germans would rather believe they were stabbed in the back than that they lost a fair fight. And anyone would rather blame someone else for his misfortunes. The truth is hard. Don't fool with it unless you realize that.

~ Hilda Van Stockum

If history is written by the victorious, what if the victors lied?

~ Michael Duncan

There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors; she does not know herself. 'I can endure lies,' she cries. 'I cannot survive this stifling verisimilitude

~ Thornton Wilder

One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.

~ John H. Alexander

Don't forget that we lawyers, we're a higher breed of intellect, and so it's our privilege to lie. It's as clear as day. Animals can't even imagine lying: if you were to find yourself among some wild islanders, they too would only speak the truth until they learned about European culture.

~ Yevgeny Zamyatin

An Idea is nothing but Information, It won't do us any harm until we accept it as perception of truth in our mind, which in time will potentially evolve and construct major events in history.

~ Djayawarman Alamprabu

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be. Demanding that everyone follow their dicta in lockstep. Everyone has to be open-minded and tolerant of the things they believe, but God forbid they should ever concede, even for a moment, that someone who disagrees with them might have some fingerhold of truth.

~ Orson Scott Card

Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.

~ Amit Kalantri

Telling one lie almost always requires another, and before the storyteller knows it, they will be caught inside of their own web.

~ Jenna Alatari

Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.

~ Criss Jami

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut.

~ Neil Gaiman

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A lie that could help someone focus on his life was better than a hundred simple truths.

~ Faraaz Kazi

Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used to tell at all.

~ Umberto Eco

There must be repressed truth even in lies.

~ Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz

Time turns our lies into truths.

~ Gene Wolfe

Millennias old lies can be gradually accepted as truth.This is the real ultimate power of historical engineering.

~ Toba Beta

Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. Almost always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.

~ Fyodor Sologub

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.

~ Jude Morgan

Luz's manner of speaking made it clear that she had no idea what she might say next. It wasn't that she made things up, strictly speaking--only that facts were merely a point of departure for her.

~ Daniel Alarcón

When the dead departed, they took away any falsehoods that they might have allowed us to believe while alive; we who are left behind have to embark on a different life, since the dead are no longer here to help us deceive ourselves.

~ Yiyun Li

You lie to her, you lie to me, you lie to yourself. Blind girl blind you.

~ Daniel Wallace