Lying Quotes - Page 23

• When we did art with the kids, the demons would lie down.

  Anne Lamott

  Art, Kids, Demon

  Anne Lamott (2006). “Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith”, p.68, Penguin

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• At least she had a clear picture of what the Lying Game was now: Girl Scouts for psychopaths.

  Sara Shepard

  Girl, Games, Psychopath

  Sara Shepard (2014). “Lying Game Complete Collection: The Lying Game; Never Have I Ever; Two Truths and a Lie; Hide and Seek; Cross My Heart, Hope to Die; Seven Minutes in Heaven; First Lie; Truth Lies”, p.99, Harper Collins

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• She is a mortal danger without meaning to be one; she's exquisite without giving ita thought; shes a trap set by nature, a rose in which love lies in ambush! Anyone who has seen her smile has known perfection. She creates grace without movement and makes all divinity fit into her slightest gesture. And neither Venus in her shell, nor Diana striding in the great, blossoming forest, can compare to her when she goes through the streets of paris in her sedan chair.

  Edmond Rostand

  Streets Of Paris, Perfection, Rose

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• He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did it; I have no control of myself or anything that's happened. So now I'm waking up. I'm awake, he thought ... I've been destroyed and now that I'm awake all I can do is realize it ... The shock of getting up there and telling that account made me see. Mixture of lies and bits of truth. Woven together. Unable to see where each starts.

  Philip K. Dick

  People, Together, Woven

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• Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Literature, Imaginative, Effects

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• One must lie under certain circumstances and at all times when one can't do anything about them.

  Harper Lee

  Acceptance, Certain, Circumstances

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Wise, Hate, Tired

  Rewards and Fairies (1910) "If - "

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• I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Thinking, People, Guy

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.135, Infobase Publishing

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• Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side. You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to "know of the doctrine." All my acts, desires, and thoughts were to be brought into harmony with universal Spirit. For the first time I examined myself with a seriously practical purpose. And there I found what appalled me; a zoo of lusts, a bedlam of ambitions, a nursery of fears, a harem of fondled hatreds. My name was legion.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Zoos, Father

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• Don't tell me anymore. You should have your dream, as the old woman told you to. I understand how you feel, but if you put those feelings into words they will turn into lies. (from Thailand)

  Haruki Murakami

  Dream, Should Have, Feelings

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After The Quake”, p.78, Random House

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• If I look upon my whole life, I cannot think of another time when I felt more comfortable: when I had no worries, fears, or desires, when my life seemed as soft and lovely as lying inside a cocoon of rose silk.

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, Worry, Rose

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club”, p.227, Penguin

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• To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spiritual, Forgiving, Enemy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton

  Taken, Hero, Knowing

  Cecilia Dart-Thornton (2011). “The Well of Tears”, p.346, Pan Macmillan

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• Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Rags, Gone

  Last Poems (1939) "The Circus Animals' Desertion" pt. 3

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• The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love lie deep in their graves; but, although the happiness and delight of my life lie buried there too, I have not made a coffin of my heart, and sealed it up for ever on my best affections. Deep affliction has only made them stronger; it ought, I think, for it should refine our nature.

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Thinking, Stronger

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.221

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• Flip-flop, hippety-hop, offa your rocker and over the top, life's a fiction and the world's a lie, so put on some Creedence and let's get high.

  Stephen King

  Life, Fiction, Getting High

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three”, p.85, Simon and Schuster

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• But it seems to me that a man cannot and ought not to say that he loves, he said. Why not? I asked. Because it will always be a lie. As though it were a strange sort of discovery that someone is in love! Just as if, as soon as he said that, something went snap-bang - he loves. Just as if, when he utters that word, something extraordinary is bound to happen, with signs and portents, and all the cannons firing at once. It seems to me, he went on, that people who solemnly utter those words, 'I love you,' either deceive themselves, or what's still worse, deceive others.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Love You, Men, Discovery

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• If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

  Richard Wright

  Men, Bed, Faces

  Richard Wright (1991). “Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider”

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• But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly existed, be truly enormous. Why then is not every geological formation and every stratum full of such intermediate links? Geology assuredly does not reveal any such finely graduated organic chain; and this, perhaps, is the most obvious and serious objection which can be urged against the theory. The explanation lies, as I believe, in the extreme imperfection of the geological record.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Theory Of Evolution, Numbers

  Charles Darwin (2012). “On the Origin of the Species and The Voyage of the Beagle”, p.162, Graphic Arts Books

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• A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Liars, Eye, Oysters

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• If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate.

  George Orwell

  Hands, Egypt, Self

  "Nineteen Eighty-four".

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• In all great works of fiction, regardless of the grim reality they present, there is an affirmation of life against the transience of that life, an essential defiance. This affirmation lies in the way the author takes control of reality by retelling it in his own way, thus creating a new world. Every great work of art, I would declare pompously, is a celebration, an act of insubordination against the betrayals, horrors and infidelities of life. The perfection and beauty of form rebels against the ugliness and shabbiness of the subject matter.

  Azar Nafisi

  Art, Betrayal, Reality

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• I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is I am dying a stellar death. I am lying there like a sick star waiting for the light to go out. Years ago I lay on this same bed and I waited and waited to be born. Nothing happened. Except that my mother, in her Lutheran rage, threw a bucket of water over me. My mother, poor imbecile that she was, thought I was lazy. She didn't know that I had gotten caught in the stellar drift, that I was being pulverized to a black extinction out there in the farthest rim of the universe.

  Henry Miller

  Mother, Stars, Thinking

  Henry Miller (1966). “Tropic of Capricorn”

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• It was all right. Nick thought about this and decided that what Alan said was true. He'd never been helpless before, not since he could remember, but now he was and everything was all right. He did not have to speak, he was not able to move, all he could do was lie there and have his brother hold him, hunched over and shielding him from the world.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Brother, Moving, World

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2009). “The Demon's Lexicon”, p.204, Simon and Schuster

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• My philosophy is fundamentally sad, but I’m not a sad man, and I don’t believe I sadden anyone else. In other words, the fact that I don’t put my philosophy into practice saves me from its evil spell, or, rather, my faith in the human race is stronger then my intellectual analysis of it; there lies the fountain of youth in which my heart is continually bathing.

  Antonio Machado

  Philosophy, Believe, Heart

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