Lying Quotes - Page 35

• At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about. We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action on our part, and action requires courage. We say we “don’t know” what is wrong, when we do know what is wrong; we just wish we didn’t. Art lets us tell the truth, but even art can be something to hide behind.

  Deb Caletti

  Art, Struggle, Roots

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• Human beings tend to be conservative, so if you lie, you'll probably be closer to the truth.

  Sonya Sones

  Conservative, Humans, Ifs

  Sonya Sones (2010). “What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd rather live a hard life of fact than a sweet life of lies.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Sweet, Hard Life, Facts

  Karen Marie Moning (2011). “Shadowfever: Fever Series”, p.544, Delacorte Press

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• Individual human beings are all tools, that the others use to help us all survive.” “That’s a lie.” “No. It’s just a half truth. You can worry about the other half after we win this war.

  Orson Scott Card

  War, Winning, Worry

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.50, Macmillan

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• Now when Túrin learnt from Finduilas of what had passed, he was wrathful, and he said to Gwindor: 'In love I hold you for your rescue and sake-keeping. But now you have done ill to me, friend, to betray my right name, and call my doom upon me, from which I would lie hid.' But Gwindor answered: 'The doom lies in yourself, not in your name.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Names, Sake, Done

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• In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Believe, Essence, Depth

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.111, Ageless Reads

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• Is it not a strange fate that we should suffer so much fear and doubt for so small a thing? So small a thing! And I have seen it only for an instant in the house of Elrond! Could I not have a sight of it again?" Frodo looked up. His heart went suddenly cold. He caught the strange gleam in Boromir's eyes, yet his face was still kind and friendly. "It is best that it should lie hidden," he answered. "As you wish. I care not." said Boromir.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Heart, Eye, Fate

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• I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.

  Veronica Roth

  Dog, Rip, Eye

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• Because this, for better or worse, is exactly where the truth lies--at the intersection of the forgotten and the ignored, in the neighborhood of all we have tried to forget.

  Sara Gran

  Ignored, Forget, Forgotten

  Sara Gran (2011). “Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

  Stephen King

  Confused, Men, Knowing

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• It is entirely seemly for a young man killed in battle to lie mangled by the bronze spear. In his death all things appear fair.

  Homer

  Men, Civilization, Battle

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• She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like mad through a field of stubble, one shoe one, one shoe off, a man named Corn Cob pursuing her hotly. Wherever she is I am standing in complete darkness; her absence blots me out.

  Henry Miller

  Running, Book, Reading

  Henry Miller (2007). “Sexus: The Rosy Crucifixion I”, p.7, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’d be happy to lie there gazing at me forever.

  Suzanne Collins

  Smile, Kissing, Forever

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.261, Scholastic Inc.

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• Willow nestled against him. He smoothed her long hair down the back of her T-shirt, feeling its softness. In a few moments she fell asleep again, her breathing warm and regular against his chest. Alex kissed her head, his arms tightening around her. As he drifted back to sleep himself, he saw a brief flash of the thousands of angels streaming in, but right then it seemed distant, almost unimportant. The only thing that mattered was that he was lying in a bed holding Willow, their bare legs entwined. It was all he wanted to do for the rest of his life.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Angel, Sleep, Hair

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• I never told the truth so i can never tell a lie.

  Tom Waits

  I Can

  Song: Whistlin' Past the Graveyard, Album: Blue Valentine

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• Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Hurt, Deceit, Truth Hurts

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.575, Dell

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• Everything I tell you is a lie." -Vergere

  Matthew Woodring Stover

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• We'll tell him his mother waits for him in heaven, I suppose." "Is that a lie?" "It's what we tell fools and children." She sighed. "Postulating a heaven gives man an out for having been unable to retain the paradise he was given here on earth.

  Sheri S. Tepper

  Mother, Children, Men

  Sheri S. Tepper (2011). “Plague of Angels”, p.118, Spectra

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• Clean, quick, and easy as lying. We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give is the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Real, Giving, Simplicity

  "The Name of the Wind". Book by Patrick Rothfuss, March 27, 2007.

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• The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago.

  Erin Hunter

  Long, Secret, Starclan

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• There is to me about this place a smell of rot, the smell of rot that ripe fruit makes. Nowhere, ever, have the hideous mechanics of birth and copulation and death -those monstrous upheavals of life that the Greeks call miasma, defilement- been so brutal or been painted up to look so pretty; have so many people put so much faith in lies and mutability and death death death.

  Donna Tartt

  Smell, People, Greek

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• Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it between my paws, and unravel it. Because it’s fun. Because it’s what cats do best.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Fun, Cat, Yarn

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.110, Feiwel & Friends

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• Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

  Natalie Portman

  Sex, Fun, Clothes

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• I knew Ginny was lying about that tattoo.

  J. K. Rowling

  Tattoo, Ginny Weasley, Weasley

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.53, Pottermore

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• His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.

  Lois Lowry

  Father, Knowing, Mind

  Lois Lowry (2014). “The Giver Movie Tie-In Edition”, p.90, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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