All Quotes By Tag: Lies

“At times to be silent is to lie. You will win because you have enough brute force. But you will not convince. For to convince you need to persuade. And in order to persuade you would need what you lack: Reason and Right”

“Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn’t enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I’ve never been able to kill myself.”

“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”

“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 an 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.”

“What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open.”

“I’m telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true”

“The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself.”

“Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.”

“In the end, Leck should have stuck to his lies. For it was the truth he almost told that killed him.”

“A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”

“One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.”

“When no one you know tells the truth, you learn to see under the surface.”

“Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.”

“The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden. A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject… And so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages. There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them… Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.”

“I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”