Lying Quotes - Page 37

• We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write.

  Neil Gaiman

  Growing Up, Kindness, Writing

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• Believing the lie that time will heal all wounds is just a nice way of saying that time deadens us.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Nice, Believe, Way

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• I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.

  Donald Miller

  Jesus, Believe, Weakness

  Donald Miller (2007). “Miller 3-in-1: Blue Like Jazz, Through Painted Deserts, Searching for God”, p.134, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I long for scenes where man has never trod; A place where woman never smil'd or wept; There to abide with my creator, God, And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept: Untroubling and untroubled where I lie; The grass below--above the vaulted sky.

  John Clare

  Sleep, Men, Creator God

  'I Am' (1848)

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• In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. The world is quite ruthless in selecting between the dream and reality, even where we will not. Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting. I've thought a great deal about my life and my country. I think there is little that can be truly known. My family has been fortunate. Others were less so. As they are often quick to point out.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dream, Country, Reality

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.244, Pan Macmillan

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• The lie, of course, is more interesting.

  John Irving

  Interesting, Courses

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• In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Believe, Fate, Soul

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

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• They might have been all-right people doing the best they could, but I got to tell you, you got a dead cat lying in your yard you ought to bury it. That’s my motto.

  Joe R. Lansdale

  Cat, People, Yards

  Joe R. Lansdale (2011). “Devil Red”, p.26, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• ..the fields might fall to fallow and the birds might stop their song awhile; the growing things might die and lie in silence under snow, while through it all the cold sea wore its face of storms and death and sunken hopes...and yet unseen beneath the waves a warmer current ran that, in its time, would bring the spring.

  Susanna Kearsley

  Song, Spring, Fall

  Susanna Kearsley (2016). “The Susanna Kearsley Collection”, p.708, Allison & Busby Ltd

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• An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together without conversation, when the phone's passed wordlessly to the other. An emptiness when every night you lie in the double bed, restlessly awake, astounded at how closely hate can nudge against love, can wind around it sinuously like a cat. An emptiness when you realize that the loneliest you've ever been is within a marriage, as a wife.

  Nikki Gemmell

  Good Night, Hate, Cat

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• And I knew that the Spirit that had gone forth to shape the world and make it live was still alive in it. I just had no doubt. I could see that I lived in the created world, and it was still being created. I would be part of it forever. There was no escape. The Spirit that made it was in it, shaping it and reshaping it, sometimes lying at rest, sometimes standing up and shaking itself, like a muddy horse, and letting the pieces fly.

  Wendell Berry

  Horse, Forever, Doubt

  Wendell Berry (2001). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, p.98, Counterpoint Press

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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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• Here lies a she sun, and a he moon there; She gives the best light to his sphere; Or each is both, and all, and so They unto one another nothing owe; And yet they do, but are So just and rich in that coin which they pay, That neither would, nor needs forbear, nor stay; Neither desires to be spared nor to spare. They quickly pay their debt, and then Take no acquittances, but pay again; They pay, they give, they lend, and so let fall No such occasion to be liberal. More truth, more courage in these two do shine, Than all thy turtles have and sparrows, Valentine.

  John Donne

  Valentine, Fall, Moon

  John Donne (1996). “Selected Poetry”, p.47, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The advantage of living is not measured by length, but by use; some men have lived long, and lived little; attend to it while you are in it. It lies in your will, not in the number of years, for you to have lived enough.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Men, Years

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.67, Stanford University Press

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• I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

  Philip K. Dick

  Tired, Dark, Forever

  Philip K. Dick (1980). “Dr. Bloodmoney”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.

  Carl Sagan

  Flower, Book, Soil

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• Gabriel pulled her over his body to lie on the bed beside him. His kisses pressed her down into the oblivion of the mattress as her hands explored his chest, his shoulders, his face. "I want to lay my kill at your feet," he said, more growl than words, and held her tight by her hair as he marked her neck with his teeth. She writhed against him. She wanted to bite him, she wanted to rip the flesh from his back, but most terrible of all, she didn't want him to stop. Her back arched, her body shattered, she howled.

  Annette Curtis Klause

  Rip, Kissing, Hair

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• I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

  Anne Rice

  Lovers, Lestat, Said

  Anne Rice (2013). “The Complete Vampire Chronicles 12-Book Bundle”, p.1060, Ballantine Books

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• What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.

  Robert Jordan

  Absurd

  Robert Jordan (2010). “Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.250, Macmillan

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• Bound by the Oath against lying, Aes Sedai had carried the halftruth, the quarter-truth and the implication to arts.

  Robert Jordan

  Art, Half, Oath

  "Lord of Chaos: Book Six of 'The Wheel of Time'".

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• O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men’s noses as they lie asleep.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Team, Men

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53

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• Some nights I need to be held. Tonight I'm a listener. So nice to lie in rumpled sheets and listen. Cover me with words.

  Don DeLillo

  Nice, Night, Needs

  Don DeLillo (1991). “Libra”, p.71, Penguin

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• I don't think anyone would think that an ellipsis represents doubt or anything. I think it's more, you know, hinting at the future. What lies ahead.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Doubt, Knows

  Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.53, Penguin

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• I absolutely love you, Briony, and I am on my knees. So we're getting married - right? But say it fast before we get shot." Only Jack would ask - if you could call it asking - in the middle of a battlefield, with a man lying dead at his feet.

  Christine Feehan

  Love You, Men, Feet

  Christine Feehan (2006). “Conspiracy Game”, p.314, Penguin

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• A part of me was hoping someone would wake up and hear, so I wouldn't have to live with this lie anymore. But no one woke up and in the silence that followed, I understood the nature of my new curse: I was going to get away with it.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Silence, Wake Up, Get Away

  Khaled Hosseini (2004). “The Kite Runner”, p.73, Penguin

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