Truth And Lies Quotes

“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.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
― Thomas Paine

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
― Jonathan Swift

“I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.”
― Kellie Elmore

“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.
—Liz Gilbert”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“In this twenty-first century, reality is virtual and truth is broader.”
― Abhaidev, The Gods Are Not Dead

“It was the truth, but not the whole truth.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“Brown decided it was best to divulge part of the truth rather than use an outright lie, as that would be more believable.
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― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“Nothing’s further from the truth; it was just a line to hook you.”
― Max Nowaz, The Polymorph

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth."
Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, Tris & Izzie

“If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Tongues are more dreadful instruments than can be made with hammers and anvils, and the harm they inflict cuts deeper and spreads wider.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“A father can be born after the child.
Jonas learned that too late, and therefore completely.
Water did not arrive through a home, a cradle, or a peaceful morning.
He arrived through terror, debt, law, code, and one dying word spoken above a blue sea.
And still, somehow, love found him first.”
― R.B.N

“Was she misinformed or Miss Informed?”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

“The danger of myth is not in it's lies, but in the truths people are willing to trade away to keep it alive.”
― Mark Alan Monroe, The Legacy Code: How a forgotten manuscript quietly changed the future

“Dacă toți ar umbla cu adevărul pe buze, unde ar ajunge lumea asta? Mai ales că adevărul este ca o pasăre neagră, a cărei frumusețe se arată lumii numai când o rază de soare ajunge pe penajul ei și-l face să strălucească în mii de culori. Adevărul nu este pentru toată lumea. Adevărul doare!”
― Ana-Maria Negrilă, Grădina alchimiștilor

“This time, when I approach the Liar's Den, I wear no armor, harbor no walls. Not like before, when the truths I believed were held together by threads so fragile questions could fray them, digging could stretch them, living could snap them.”
― Jessica S. Olson, Den of Liars

“Lying can be another way of wasting time that can raise a higher chance of you getting into more trouble when you already are in trouble.”
― Meshach Ford, The Quote-DAH.: A Wise Choice was Surrounded by Wisdom.

“I knew I was not alone. I was never alone. I knew that no matter how confusing things get, how many voices are shouting lies, how many wrong turns you take, how many dead ends you run into, there is always, always the truth to find, always the truth somewhere, burning, shining. Never give in. Never, never, never.”
― Andrew Klavan, The Last Thing I Remember

“Hyper was not a dream.
It was a world where even children could be deleted cleanly.”
― R.B.N

“Mio had not wanted to become cruel.
She had only wanted to survive.
But survival has its own violence when there is not enough money, not enough help, not enough room to breathe.
Water became a child inside her heart and a number inside her bank account.
That was the tragedy: both were true.”
― R.B.N

“The first time Water saw a path where no path existed, nobody understood what it meant.
To the teachers, it was an accident.
To Jonas, it was danger.
To Hyper, it was an error.
But to Water, it was only the beginning of seeing the world as it truly was.
A world with cracks.
A world that could lie.”
― R.B.N

“The cat watched from the wall.
No one screamed. No alarm sounded.

Children laughed, teachers talked, and the school continued as if nothing had changed.
But Jonas knew better.

In Hyper, danger did not always arrive with a weapon.
Sometimes it came with soft paws, glass eyes, and a tail that never moved.”
― R.B.N

“Daddy” saved Water once.

After that, the word stopped being a name.

It became the shape of Jonas’s guilt, love, and lifelong sentence.”
― R.B.N

“Mio loved Water in the only way she could survive.
From a distance.
In silence.
Without claiming him, without stepping closer, without asking for forgiveness she did not believe she deserved.
Some mothers hold their children.
Some bury them in the heart and spend the rest of their lives pretending that is not a grave.”
― R.B.N

“Vanessa had forgotten the rental application.
To her, it was just a small thing from before the festival.
To the people outside, it was an open door.
A body waiting to be borrowed.
A child’s life reduced to a temporary room for someone richer, older, and careless enough to call it fun.”
― R.B.N