Quotes About Deception

Sometimes I get the feeling that everything that happened to me was some kind of illusion. It's as though something happened to make me think that things happened that never really happened at all. But I know for sure that they did happen.

Aquilo que os nossos olhos vêem nem sempre corresponde à realidade.

I happen to like the strange ones, the driver said. People who look normal and live a normal life--they're the ones you have to watch out for.

John was grinning in his shifty way, the way men smile at each other when one has a hatchet and the other doesn't.

Reason is the illusion of reality

When I thought about my old friends Linus Lucas and Theo, I realized they were not really criminals either. They were like me. We were just acting out the strangest, tragic little roles, pretending to be criminals in order to get by. We gave very convincing performances.

the more concretely I am in the world, the more genuine the existence of deception.

Wie Manche, die am Hals des Freundes hängt, Sagt wohl das Wort: sie lieb' ihn, o so sehr, Daß sie vor Liebe gleich ihn essen könnte; Und hinterher, das Wort beprüft, die Närrinn!

Actually last night my married lover appeared wearing suspenders and a darling little angora crop top told me he was gay a sex addict a narcotic addict a commitment phobic and beat me up with a dildo.

She's a jellyfisher: You have a conversation with her that seems all nice and friendly, then you suddenly feel like you've been stung and you don't know where it came from.

Por qué, cuando las personas dejan a sus parejas porque están teniendo un lío con otra persona, creen mejor hacer ver que no hay nadie más involucrado? ... Es lo mismo que esas personas que inventan una mentira como excusa en lugar de decir la verdad, aunque la verdad sea mejor que la mentira.

Under softest touch hides treacherous claws.

Let the most romantic of us that has been entertained all night with the spectacle of some wild and magnificent vision, re-combine it in the morning and try it by his waking judgment. That which appeared so shifting and yet so coherent, when it came under cool examination, shall appear so reasonless and so unlinked, that we are ashamed to have been so deluded, and to have taken, though but in sleep, a monster for a god.

Cheating tends to come up a lot in my songs. Betrayal fascinates me. I think the fact that you can trust someone so much and then they go against that has always plagued my writing for some reason.

Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

The way 'The Icarus Girl' came about was by me just basically bragging it with a literary agent and telling him I'd written 150 pages when I'd only written 20. And I think it was when the agent e-mailed me back right the very next day after sending him the 20 pages and asking to see the other 130.

So basically, Travis Scott took files from Tommy Brown and took them to Kanye and said he produced them and it was on video. He took a song I had written a hook to and took it to Teyana Taylor for her to do and change a little bit.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

Don't disrespect me, lie about it, and then come smile in my face and act like nothing's wrong.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

Adults lie to themselves all the time about what is acceptable, but kids know what is right and wrong.