Lying Quotes - Page 15

• Syn has a brain disorder that causes him to lie most of the time. Ignore him. (Nykyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Brain, Causes, Disorder

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “The League: Nemesis Rising, Books 1-3: Born of Night, Born of Fire, Born of Ice”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Squirrelflight rested her tail on his shoulder, urging him to lie still until his injuries could be treated. Brambleclaw led Stormfur and Brook up to Firestar. The Clan leader's eyes stretched wide in surprise. "Stormfur...and Brook! What are you doing here?" "There'll be time to explain later," Stormfur meowed. "For now, Firestar, put us to work.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Leader, Tails

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• And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Lies We Tell Ourselves, Soul, Nero

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.385, Macmillan

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• Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Fall, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.78, Rowman & Littlefield

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• You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.

  Stephen King

  Said Life, Way, Discarded

  Stephen King (2008). “Just After Sunset: Stories”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.

  Ernest Becker

  Mean, Reality, Doe

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• Do you know why happily ever after is a lie?" Snow asked. "Because life is change.

  Jim C. Hines

  Snow, Life Is, Ever After

  Jim C. Hines (2010). “Red Hood's Revenge”, p.231, Penguin

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• Not much music left inside us for life to dance to. Our youth has gone to the ends of the earth to die in the silence of the truth. And where, I ask you, can a man escape to, when he hasn't enough madness left inside him? The truth is an endless death agony. The truth is death. You have to choose: death or lies. I've never been able to kill myself.

  Louis-Ferdinand Celine

  Men, Agony, Silence

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• But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.

  Judy Blundell

  Daughter, Mother, Home

  Judy Blundell (2011). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.250, Scholastic UK

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• Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

  J. K. Rowling

  Differences, Deceit, Cowardice

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• Guys, we’re so screwed. The women know we didn’t go hunting. (Kyrian) You think? What idiot came up with that lie? (Zarek) I’m not an idiot. And it’s not like I lied. I just omitted what exactly we were hunting and where we were doing it. (Talon) Like your wives wouldn’t know better? When was the last time Mr. Armani hunted something that didn’t have a price tag on it? Oh, and the loafers and trousers are perfect camouflage. (Zarek)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Hunting, Price Tag

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• Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

  Arthur Phillips

  Love Is, Stories, Ever After

  Arthur Phillips (2010). “The Song is You”, p.270, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Class, Names, Icons

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• To see the Summer Sky Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie— True Poems flee—

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Nature, Book

  Emily Dickinson, Ralph William Franklin (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.1309, Harvard University Press

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• Lies were like having a pregnant rabbit. One day you had one, but before you knew it, there were rabbits all over the place.

  Charles de Lint

  One Day, Rabbits, Pregnant

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• Walls have ears. Doors have eyes. Trees have voices. Beasts tell lies. Beware the rain. Beware the snow. Beware the man You think you know. -Songs of Sapphique

  Catherine Fisher

  Song, Wall, Rain

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• Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie.

  Steven Pressfield

  Passing By, Law, Stranger

  Steven Pressfield (2000). “Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae”, Random House

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• It’s as if your kind needs adversity in order to achieve. (Leta) No, we don’t. That’s just a lie people tell themselves to feel better about all the people who kick them in their teeth when it’s just as easy to help a man up as it is to knock him to the ground. That’s why I’ve withdrawn from this world. I don’t want to have to watch my back all the time and I’m tired of trying to figure out if the loyalty someone professes is real and true, or just another lie that will crumble the instant they taste jealousy. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Loyalty, Real, Adversity

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• But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

  Stephen Fry

  Real, Men, Might

  Stephen Fry (2003). “The Liar”, p.160, Soho Press

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• I was just peeling some potatoes for dinner and they all looked like crisp white potatoes until I cut them in half. Every single one had a rotten, gray core. [. . .] I feel like the whole world is black, rotting, and evil. Even when it looks crisp on the outside, that's a lie, because you can't trust anything - on the inside it's nothing like mold. [. . .] So, see, nothing good is ever going to happen, and anyone who says it is, is lying to you.

  Jaclyn Moriarty

  Cutting, White, Evil

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• Yeah, it never fails to amaze me how a single lie can undo an entire lifetime of good. (Aiden)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Honesty, Failing, Lifetime

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• For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Long, Bereavement, Earth

  Lurlene McDaniel (2009). “Hit and Run”, p.180, Laurel Leaf

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• My Friend: Art thou abroad on this stormy night on thy journey of love, my friend? The sky groans like one in despair. I have no sleep tonight. Ever and again I open my door and look out on the darkness, my friend! I can see nothing before me. I wonder where lies thy path! By what dim shore of the ink-black river, by what far edge of the frowning forest, through what mazy depth of gloom art thou threading thy course to come to me, my friend?

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Art, Sleep, Night

  Rabindranath Tagore (2007). “Gitanjali”, p.22, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• And look, we have young people in this country who are thirty years old living with their parents. We have young people in this country who don't have jobs, who graduate from college and are fed the lie of meritocracy. "You get a degree, you get a job." That's not happening. We have young people who have become the Zero Generation: zero hope, zero employment, zero possibilities. Do we really believe that this young generation is going to stand by and not take note of an economic system that - however it calls itself - has completely betrayed them?

  Henry Giroux

  Country, Believe, College

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• What’s the gun for? (Leta) I would lie and say it’s for bears or snakes, but mostly I use it for trespassers. (Aiden) Wow, Dexter, I’m impressed. Since we’re not in Miami and you haven’t a boat to hide the hacked-up bodies at sea, where are you keeping them? (Leta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Gun, Sea, Snakes

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