You can’t lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon’ tell the truth, or the truth’s gon’ tell on you

The truth will set us free. But freedom is cold and empty and frightening, and lies can often be warm and beautiful.

What happens to people living in a society where everyone in power is lying, stealing, cheating and killing, and in our hearts we all know this, but the consequences of facing all these lies are...

Yeah, it didn’t work like that because lies cannot protect

Very soon she’ll join all the others who know the secret and will not tell it. Or cannot. Or try and fail because they do not know enough. They can be recognized. White faces, dazed...

Vicksburg lies on top of a bluff on the east side of a large tongue of land jutting out into the Mississippi.

I know it’s a lot. But she can handle it. I’d rather ruin her with the truth than ruin her with lies.

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...

I suggest to wash tongues and heads with soap for some people. But I’m not sure that it would help; so you should just try to THINK.

Lack of courtesy is an extreme form of disrespect

Impact of telling a lie: The day it is spoken to the day it is caught.

Ophelia was surprised by how easily she lied. She had two stolen keys in her pocket, and the lies were sliding off her tongue. Soon, she’d probably be shoplifting. She expected that was how it...

I love you. You’re the only one.” She isn’t the first woman he’s ever said that to. He shouldn’t have used it up so much earlier in his life, he shouldn’t have treated it like...

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don’t have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

Snakes hide in grass, people behind their lies.

[From a New York Times biography from May 27, 2010 entitled Introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’]Beauvoir herself was as devout an atheist as she had once been a Catholic, and she dismisses...

Why was is that the Light acted through lies, and the Darkness acted though the truth? Why was is that our truth proved powerless, but lies were effective? And why was the Darkness able to...

Why, these men would destroy the Bible on evidence that would not convict a habitual criminal of a misdemeanor. They found a tooth in a sand pit in Nebraska with no other bones about it,...

I love you” are not enough to make up for that. Don’t kid yourself that they are.

Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring in the attic of my memory. Eventually, I was able to recall how...

I’m tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept.

A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

The hardest tumble a man can take is to fall over his own bluff.

You’re not worthy” is one of them.

Ga thought of how difficult it was to come to see the lies you told yourself, the ones that allowed you to function and move forward.

99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it’s the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no...

As far as a nuclear weapons-free zone, you know, when the lion lies down with the lamb, and you don’t need a new lamb every day to satisfy the lion, then we might have this...

Well…letting the cat out of the bag is a lot easier than putting it in.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen...

Telling Sam and Daneca feels like peeling off my own skin to expose everything underneath. It hurts.

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to...

I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.

Don’t be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

The government researchers, aware of the information in the professional journals, decided to reverse the process (of healing from hysteric dissociation). They decided to use selective trauma on healthy children to create personalities capable of...

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

If you were smart,” Genghis said, “you would have borrowed the silverware of one of your friends.””We never thought of that,” Klaus said. When one is forced to tell atrocious lies, one often feels a...

You must never believe everything they say about a person. Generally speaking, most of it will be lies, half-truths at best.

Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely.

Beautiful songs could sometimes take a person out of themselves and carry them away to a place of magic. But when Jill sang, it was not about the song, really. She could sing the phone...

Within every elaborate lie, a kernel of truth.

And truth is malleable, something to be bent or stretched or made to disappear, but direct lies always find the path back to the one who tells them.

Everyday in the heat, rain and cold, I ran, alone in the woods…in the hills near our home. There I felt the gentle touch of God. And I heard His whisper, You’re stronger now. It’s...

A man who never lies must have green blood in his veins, or blue or yellow, but definitely not red!

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.

A tiding of magpies: One for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl, four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told

Why aren’t you in school? I see you every day wandering around.””Oh, they don’t miss me,” she said. “I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed. It all depends...

Lies suck; they tear you apart from the inside out.