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

To get what we want we must be subtle as snakes; more deadly, more cunning, more patient, more mean. Think of the serpent, how it slithers through the garden. It’s such a beautiful creature, slow...

The problem with being a liar is you can never believe anyone else.

Mirrors are perpetually deceitful. They lie and steal your true self. They reveal only what your mind believes it sees

Maximus was cleaning his blade on the dead man’s wolfskin. ‘You promised him his life,’ the Greek said. ‘No, I said death was his last worry.’ Maximus swung up on to Pale Horse. ‘Is that...

You speak as if I actually have a soul. As if mine wasn’t ripped from me by lies and betrayal.

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

Self-deception fools all of the people all of the time.

Everyone listened to this amusing narrative with great interest, and the moment that Behemoth concluded it, they all shouted in unison: ‘Lies!

Let’s live to believe leaving all lies behind

Lying is essential to humanity. It plays as large a part perhaps as the quest for pleasure, and is moreover governed by that quest. One lies in order to protect one’s pleasure, or one’s honour...

A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

Chapter 4,‘Organised abuse and the pleasures of disbelief’, uses Zizek’s (1991) insights into cite political role of enjoyment to analyse the hyperbole and scorn that has characterised the sceptical account of organised and ritualistic abuse....

How ’bout a shot of truth in that denial cocktail.

Not all truths hurt. And not all that is hurtful is truthful.

A person who lies for you can lie to you too.

Lies I’ve told my 3 year old recently Trees talk to each other at night.All fish are named either Lorna or Jack.Before your eyeballs fall out from watching too much TV, they get very loose.Tiny...

Nothing is Lie until you get to know the truth, as nothing is false in Dream until you get to know that i’m Dreamer.

Is it okay to do something wrong if you’re doing it to protect someone who deserves to be helped?””That’s an odd question Is there anything you need to tell me?”but I think sometimes you have...

I am not, in the ordinary acceptation of the term, a good-natured man; that is, many things annoy me besides what interferes with my own ease and interest. I hate a lie; a piece of...

An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally.

false convictions” by defense lawyers and political activists deserve far greater scrutiny from the media and the public.journal: Cheit, Ross E. “The Legend of Robert Halsey.” Journal of child sexual abuse 9.3-4 (2002): 37-52.

The biggest lie women tell themselves about men: When I get what I want, I will be happy.

Asymmetric balance creates greater reader interest. Pleasure derived from observing asymmetrical arrangements lies partly in overcoming resistances, which, consciously or not, the spectator adjusts in his own mind.

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

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.

A lie’s true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after...

I know. That sounds like a lie. But Presbyterians know that every so often a lie isn’t all that bad, and I figured that this was about the best place it could happen.

Evidence doesn’t always convince people of the truth, […] especially when the lie is what they prefer.

The term propaganda rings melodramatic and exaggerated, but a press that—whether from fear, careerism, or conviction—uncritically recites false government claims and reports them as fact, or treats elected officials with a reverence reserved for royalty,...

Lies are like muscles: it takes practice to make them strong.

People with red hair are supposed to get mad very easily,…,and he had very red hair.

The heart never lies