Quotes About Self-deception

Every desire is a viper in the bosom, who while he was chill was harmless; but when warmth gave him strength, exerted it in poison.

It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

We fool ourselvesinto thinkingwe're strongthen complainthe rest of our livescrippled bythe consequences.

you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess." "My

Love was the thing that tore you apart; it made you believe the lies you were told, obvious as they might be. It was nearly impossible to see your own fate while it was happening to you. It was only after, when what's done had been done, that one's vision cleared.

From the very start, Sally has been lying to herself, telling herself she can handle anything, and she doesn't want to lie anymore. One more lie and she'll be truly lost. One more and she'll never find her way back through the woods.

Some secrets were much harder to keep than others, especially ones you kept from yourself.

Individuals who do not want to know their own truth collude in denial with society as a whole, looking for a common enemy on whom to act out their repressed rage. But as the inhabitants of this shrinking planet near the end of the twentieth century, the danger inherent in self-deception is growing exponentially- and we can afford it less than ever. Fortunately, at the same time, we now have the tools we need to truly understand ourselves, as we were and as we are.

I went on to say that no lies, after all, were as strong as the lies we tell ourselves and then unfortunately have to keep telling to make the whole puke stay down in our stomachs, eating us alive, as he would find out soon enough.

Mentira nenhuma, afinal, era mais violenta que as mentiras que nós contamos a nós mesmos e aí desgraçadamente temos que continuar contando para segurar aquele vômito todo no estômago, comendo a gente por dentro.

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it a secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home? She had put billboards and roads between them, throwing roadblocks behind her and ripping off the rearview mirror, and thought that would make him disappear?

If you lie to yourself about your own pain, you will be killed by those who will claim you enjoyed it.

You lie even to yourself. Now that is the mark of a fool.

El hombre del Mediodía no miente, se equivoca. No dice siempre la verdad, pero cree que la dice… Para él, su mentira no es mentira. Es una especie de espejismo…

He'd played at being a different man, but it had all been lies. The hardest kind to see through. The kind you tell yourself.

Fencing is one thing,' he said. 'Actual violence quite another. Few of us are made for it. It is healthy to be disabused of our self-deceptions every now and then, even if it hurts.

God! Why did she insist on demanding from people what she knew they could never give her? Why did she insist on making the same mistakes over and over? Why was she fooled so easily every time? Because she wanted to be fooled.

The past isn't made of facts, not really, just stories people tell to make themselves feel better. To make themselves look better.

Conscience is a burden we choose to bear. Morality is the lie we tell ourselves to make its bearing easier.

It was bad enough that she had been so utterly convinced he had a brilliant mind, but much worse to discover he was convinced of it, too, and on such thin evidence. It

Ig laughed at that. The things people said. The effortless way they lied, to others, to themselves.

He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.

and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him,'" the voice replied.