Lying Quotes - Page 11

• Does the ‘Paranormal’ lie within the margins between the ‘Metacosm’ [a larger reality beyond the macro/microcosms consisting of 10 dimensions or more] and the virtual reality established by the digital simulation?

  Chuck Missler

  Reality, Doe, Digital

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• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  Pablo Picasso

  Believe, Deceit, Answers

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.

  Grace Slick

  Anger, Truth Is

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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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• 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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• A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a voice; in this way a novel is called democratic - not that it advocates democracy but that by nature it is so. Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels - the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.

  Azar Nafisi

  Pain, Heart, Character

  Azar Nafisi (2003). “Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books”, p.132, Random House

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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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• 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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• 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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• Altruism accrues little benefit to those lying cold in the gutter.

  Raymond E. Feist

  Gutters, Benefits, Littles

  Raymond E. Feist (1993). “Silverthorn”, Spectra

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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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• We make our own truths and lies....Truths are often lies and lies truths.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Truth And Lies, Lies Truth

  FaceBook post by Bernhard Schlink from Aug 10, 2010

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• I am sincere, ma petite, even when I lie.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sincere, Petite

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.173, Penguin

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• I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for a while," he grunted, "It relaxes me." "It does? Oh - you're being sarcastic. That's a good sign probably.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sarcastic, Pain, Relax

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.753, Simon and Schuster

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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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