Quotes About Lies

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.

Time will inevitably uncover dishonesty and lies history has no place for them.

Monsters, monsters! But there are no monsters! What you call monsters are superior forms, or forms beyond your understanding. Aren't the gods monsters? Isn't a man of genius a monster, like a tiger or a spider, like all individuals who live beyond social lies, in the dazzling and divine immortality of things? Why, I too then-am a monster!

Like all good works of fiction, it lies like the truth.

They took us all to Arcata to the church there. Then they made us all separate. They said we were going to have new Christian American families. They said…they said you were all dead. I believed them at first, and I didn't know what to do. But then I saw how they would lie whenever they felt like it. They would say things about us and about Acorn that were nothing but lies. Then I didn't know what to believe.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

If we have based parts of our lives on lies, or truths that no longer hold, however well intentioned or unconscious, the changes that deep intimacy evokes can look very dangerous.

In a world that loves lies, truth is subject to the greatest libels.

When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.

Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.

One lies to seek a bit of relief from a ponderous, suffocating reality, but the liar, like the drinker, gradually comes to need larger and larger doses. The lies become blacker and more complex, and they mesh and rub together until in the end they shine with the luster of truth.

Forced explanations often end in a distortion of lies.

There is no insufferable, painful hell like that of deceiving people all the time.

People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.

Now and then you poor humanities, who are always so dimly conscious that you are all lies to one another, get a glimpse of various truths from some cynical dead man's diary, or some statesman's secret papers. But you never are warned: you placidly continue greedily to gobble up, unexamined, the falsehoods of public men; and impudently to adjudicate on the nurevealed secrets of private lives.

Muchas veces una mentira es una verdad mal contada, pero en este caso la gran mentira escondía las verdades.

You hide behind cosmetic eyes Kiss them off with Lipstick Lies Lipstick Lies won't hide the truth They won't keep you waterproof

Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.

Her lips twisted. "I don't like you," she told me, but there was a lie in her voice, and she stopped talking, looking almost surprised.

Hard truths can be dealt with, triumphed over, but lies will destroy your soul.

Abusive statements are lies about you which are told to you. They violate your boundaries. The abuser in effect invades your mind, makes up a "story" about your motives, and then tells it to you. No human being has the right to do that to another.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.