[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.

Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free.

Painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire.

But I cannot love her as I did, because she is not open, because she withholds what matters, because she makes me, with her pride or her madness, live a lie.

I’d rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

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.

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

The truth about life and lie about life is not measured by others but by your intuition, which never lies.

I wasn’t sure what was worse: being oblivious or living within reality. (Eric)

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms – if you don’t know how to do it properly, it’s best not to try.

Insanity is everyone expecting you not to fall apart when you find out everything you believed in was a lie.

A father is a reality-concealing machine, a machine for dishing up lies to kids, and that isn’t even the worst of it: secretly he believes that he represents reality.

Most of us would rather kill ourselves than be, particularly if who we think we are keeps dying. Many of us do.

The truth which has been spoken too late is more damaging than a lie.

In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

It’s amazing, the lies you can tell yourself. Even more amazing, the lies you can believe when you’re desperate enough.

She said that you–” “I don’t care what she said.” I stand up. “Everyone lies.” “Hey,” he says softly. “It’s just a code.” “No. Everyone lies.” I stub the cigarette out. “It’s just another language...

It’s not that fact of him telling me he’s not going to kill me that assures me I’ve got some time to breathe. Predo could look me in the eye and tell me whiskey’s good...

To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty...

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.