Love Lies Quotes

• Demons run when a good man goes to war. Night will fall and drown the sun when a good man goes to war. Friendship dies and true love lies. Night will fall and the dark will rise when a good man goes to war. Demons run but count the cost; the battle's won but the child is lost.

  Steven Moffat

  Running, Children, War

  "Doctor Who". www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• A single lie destroys a whole reputation for integrity.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Truth, Integrity, Lying

  "The Art of Worldly Wisdom".

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• I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

  Pietro Aretino

  Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend

  Pietro Aretino (1926). “The Works of Aretino: Biography: de Sanctis. The letters. The sonnets. Appendix”

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• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Fear, Lying

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• Always tell the truth. That way you don't have to remember what you said.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Politics

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• How much of love lies buried in dusty graves!

  Francis Alexander Durivage

  Death, Lying, Graves

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• At some point, we have each said through our tears, “I’m suffering for a love that’s not worth it.” We suffer because we feel we are giving more than we receive. We suffer because our love is going unrecognized. We suffer because we are unable to impose our own rules. But ultimately there is no good reason for our suffering, for in every love lies the seed of our growth.

  Paulo Coelho

  Lying, Love Is, Giving

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• A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 53

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• A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.

  Mark Twain

  Lying, Half, Truth Is

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• The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.

  Richard Bach

  Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves, Denial

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• In love lies the seed of our growth. The more we love, the closer we are to the spiritual experience.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Spiritual, Lying

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• Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Love, Lying, Seeking

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• Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Heart, Eye

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.116, Classic Books Company

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• Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Lying, Laughing, Rose

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1343, Delphi Classics

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• Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Deep Love, Depth

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.364, Delphi Classics

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• Heart of my heart, the world is young;
  Love lies hidden in every rose!

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Lying, Heart

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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• Beneath the greatest love lies a hurricane of hate.

  Phil Ochs

  Love, Hate, Lying

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• Love lies in those unsent drafts in your mailbox. Sometimes you wonder whether things would have been different if you'd clicked 'Send'.

  Faraaz Kazi

  Lying, Different, Sometimes

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• People who are brutally honest get more satisfaction out of the brutality than out of the honesty.

  Richard J. Needham

  Honesty, People, Satisfaction

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• Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Compassion, Reason Why

  Dalai Lama XIV, Rajiv Mehrotra (2010). “In My Own Words: An Introduction to My Teachings and Philosophy”, p.3, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If cynicism and love lie at opposite ends of a spectrum, do we not sometimes fall in love in order to escape the debilitating cynicism to which we are prone? Is there not in every coup de foudre a certain willful exaggeration of the qualities of the beloved, an exaggeration which distracts us from our habitual pessimism and focuses our energies on someone in whom we can believe in a way we have never believed in ourselves?

  Alain de Botton

  Falling In Love, Lying, Believe

  Alain de Botton (2015). “On Love: A Novel”, p.15, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that in evil is found all sensual delight.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Lying, Unique, Men

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• Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the beautiful and noble. But if the loved ones love us back, we are forced to return to ourselves, and are hence reminded of the things that had driven us into love in the first place. Perhaps it was not love we wanted after all, perhaps it was simply someone in whom to believe, but how can we continue to believe the the beloved now that they believe in us?

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Lying, Believe

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• If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Love Is, Use

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• Heart of my heart, the world is young;
  Love lies hidden in every rose!
  Every song that the skylark sung
  Once, we thought, must come to a close:
  Now we know the spirit of song,
  Song that is merged in the chant of the whole,
  Hand in hand as we wander along,
  What should we doubt of the years that roll?

  Alfred Noyes

  Life, Song, Lying

  Alfred Noyes (1911). “Drake. The enchanted island. New poems”

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