Lying Quotes - Page 35

• 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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• 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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• 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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• I think it takes an amazing amount of energy to convince oneself that the Forever Person isn't just around the corner. In the end I believe we never do convince ourselves. I know that I found it increasingly hard to maintain the pose of emotional self-sufficiency lying on my bed and sitting at my desk, watching the gulls cartwheeling in the clouds over the bridges, cradling myself in my own arms, breathing warm chocolate-and-vodka breath on a rose I had found on a street corner, trying to force it to bloom.

  Douglas Coupland

  Believe, Emotional, Thinking

  Douglas Coupland (2012). “Life After God”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• This is a book about Heaven. I know it now. It floats among us like a cloud and is the realest thing we know and the least to be captured, the least to be possessed by anybody for himself. It is like a grain of mustard seed, which you cannot see among the crumbs of earth where it lies. It is like the reflection of the trees on the water.

  Wendell Berry

  Book, Reflection, Clouds

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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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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• Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry.

  Sylvia Plath

  Sea, Sick, Fever

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.135, Faber & Faber

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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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• Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Rose, Diaries, Matter

  Caroline B. Cooney (2012). “Fatality”, p.3, Open Road Media

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• This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.

  John Bunyan

  Heart, Way, Hills

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• Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spiritual, Prayer, Real

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2017). “The Brothers Karamazov (English Russian Edition illustrated): Братья Карамазовы (англо-русская редакция иллюстрированная)”, p.747, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• The repeated lies become history, but they don't necessarily become the truth.

  Colum McCann

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.114, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Cordelia

  Margaret Atwood (1989). “Cat's Eye”, Bantam

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• In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Distance, House, Sides

  Nicholas Sparks (2010). “The Choice”, p.175, Hachette UK

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• One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.

  Christopher Moore

  Cat, Dark, Escaping

  Christopher Moore (2009). “A Dirty Job: A Novel”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• There's a word for that kind of lie. Hope.

  Max Brooks

  Kind, World War Z

  Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, Crown Pub

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• Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home in between the pages of books. She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she love one of them most of all.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Girl, Book, Home

  Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Linger”, p.338, Scholastic Inc.

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• 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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• Winston Churchill said 'In war time, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies'. Any book called The Truth should therefore have one.

  Terry Pratchett

  War, Book, Truth Is

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• Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Hate, Long, Shadow

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “Unfinished Tales of Numenor and Middle-earth”, p.46, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• That's what you get for telling the truth. Someone calls you a liar. Most people will accept a likely lie to an unlikely truth. In fact, they prefer it.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Liars, People, Facts

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Collection 1-5”, p.188, Penguin

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• What annoyed me was that I so often attempted to weasel out of things on purpose, it killed me to do it by accident. It seemed like a waste of whatever detailed lie I was going to have to come up with.

  Sloane Crosley

  Annoyed, Purpose, Waste

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.112, Portobello Books

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• You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife.

  William Shakespeare

  Wife, Hearing, Towns

  William Shakespeare, Roma Gill (2001). “The Taming of the Shrew”, p.43, Barron's Educational Series

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• Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Science, Night, Men

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• What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dew, Common, Rosebuds

  "Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody".

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