The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.
Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what's right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.
I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.
There are three types of lies - lies, damn lies, and statistics.
A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.
I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.
There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.
Those who don't value their words, will never value your wishes.
always tell the truth and you'll never have to remember your words.
The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.
I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it.
How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road with unplaited pigtails? And so that childhood would never again be called war-time childhood.
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point 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.
I told him I was going to betray you, and betray Lyra, and he believed me because I was corrupt and full of wickedness; he looked so deep I felt sure he'd see the truth. But I lied too well. I was lying with every nerve and fiber and everything I'd ever done...I wanted him to find no good in me, and he didn't. There is none.
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.
Most people gaze neither into the past nor the future; they explore neither truth nor lies. They gaze at the television.
All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.
Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence
could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.
Oh, what a tangled web we weave...when first we practice to deceive.
People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.
Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.
Nothing is ever certain.
But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.
A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.
There is beauty in truth, even if it's painful. Those who lie, twist life so that it looks tasty to the lazy, brilliant to the ignorant, and powerful to the weak. But lies only strengthen our defects. They don't teach anything, help anything, fix anything or cure anything. Nor do they develop one's character, one's mind, one's heart or one's soul.
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 truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
One lie has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.
I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true
Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open.
I don't like the word 'allegorical', I don't like the word 'symbolic' - the word I really like is 'mythic', and people always think that means 'full of lies', whereas of course what it really means is 'full of truth which cannot be told in any other way but a story'.
The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.
I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you.
She called herself Europa, and wandered the world from girlhood till death. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.
There is a rule for fantasy writers: The more truth you mix in with a lie, the stronger it gets.
Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.
In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.
We’re not broken. We’re not in the wrong bodies. We’re not inadequate. We’re not lesser. We’re not unwanted. We’re not fraudulent. We’re not undesirable. That’s all just a set of lies we tell to soothe the experience of the prisons we put ourselves in.
I want you to lie to me just as sweetly as you know how for the rest of my life.
World War I was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.
Just because someone says it is so doesn't mean it is.
Words stick, even when we don't want them to.
Tell me a story. Be my storyteller.
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.
How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?
Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.
Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.
When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.
There are different ways to be confused about how someone's disappointed you. Some lie about the future because they wanted to forget the past. But some will lie about the past because they think it will give you both a future.
Did you play by the rules and work hard but feel empty and unfulfilled? It's because you were lied to.
Sometimes, one wants to have the illusion that one is making ones own life, out of one's own resources.
The world is drowning in weirdness and lies......and here we are, so used to it that we're actually bored!
We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.
Of all the bright cruel lies they tell you, the cruelest is the one called love.
Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.
Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies.
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.
Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than 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
When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.
The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.
The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
,the rest of the girls pretended not to notice. That's just what best friends do.
A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Life's wildest moment-she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.
How 'bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.
Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.
It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.
I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.
For people who say they hate being lied to, just start telling them nothing but the pure truth-about everything. That will teach them
In this treacherous world
Nothing is the truth nor a lie.
Everything depends on the color
Of the crystal through which one sees it
Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying.
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie.
If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.
His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn't see the truth anymore.
He drew the dagger and laid it on the table between them; a length of dragonbone and Valyrian steel, as sharp as the difference between right and wrong, between true and false, between life and death.
Eyes shows lies.
Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.
Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult....Examine your words well, and you will find that even when you have no motive to be false, it is a very hard thing to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings - much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth.
The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.
This, the language of deception, we both understand. We were born to it, along with the curses.
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
Lady, I do not make up things. That is lies. Lies are not true. But the truth could be made up if yo know how. And that's the truth.
the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
lies, truth, loveI have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of it's charms.
Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.
You cannot believe everything you hear
Better the comfort of a lie than the absurdity of the truth.
I'm planning, you see, to try to confine myself to the truth. That's hard for an old, inveterate fantasy martyr and liar who has never hesitated to give truth the form he felt the occasion demanded.
Many years ago someone told me something that I flatly refused to accept. And I still don't accept it now, despite all the times I've seen it proved right.
"The common good and the individual good rarely coincide..."
Sure, I know, it's true.
But some truths are probably worse than lies.