Quotes about lies

A collection of quotes on the topic of lie.

„Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we all have created. But that is just another convenient lie. Because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame. Some people – some companies and some decision-makers in particular – have known exactly what priceless values they are sacrificing to continue making unimaginable amounts of money.“

— Greta Thunberg Swedish climate change activist 2003
2019, World Economic Forum (January 2019), Teen activist tells Davos elite they're to blame for climate crisis, CNN https://edition.cnn.com/2019/01/25/europe/greta-thunberg-davos-world-economic-forum-intl/index.html (25 January 2019) Cited in No One is Too Small to Make a Difference, Penguin Books, 2019, pages 17-18 (ISBN 9780141991740).

Money, People, Making love, Decision

„When you lose your temper, you lose a friend. When you lie, you lose yourself.“

— Robyn Carr American writer
Harvest Moon

„Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie.“

— Jiddu Krishnamurti Indian spiritual philosopher 1895 - 1986
Posthumous publications, The Collected Works, Context: Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The moment you have a path to truth, you divide it, because the path is exclusive; and what is exclusive at the very beginning will end in exclusiveness. The man who is following a path can never know truth because he is living in exclusiveness; his means are exclusive, and the means are the end, are not separate from the end. If the means are exclusive, the end is also exclusive. So there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie. "Fifth Talk in Bombay 1950 (12 March 1950) http://www.jkrishnamurti.com/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=352&chid=4672&w=%22Truth+is+not+something+in+the+distance%22, J.Krishnamurti Online, JKO Serial No. 500312, The Collected Works, Vol. VI, p. 134

Truth, Quotes, Past, Christ

„I can imagine no greater bliss than to lie about, reading novels all day.“

— Julia Quinn, Ten Things I Love About You

Imagination, Reading

„She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.“

— Charles Bukowski American writer 1920 - 1994

Madness

„Don’t turn the truth into a lie using self-fulfilling prophecies.“

— RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)
1996

Truth, Self-confidence

„Drink and dance and laugh and lie,
Love, the reeling midnight through,
For tomorrow we shall die!
(But, alas, we never do.)“

— Dorothy Parker, Death and Taxes
"The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)

Love, Drink, Dance

„The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honour trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then — to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.“

— T. H. White, book The Book of Merlyn
The Book of Merlyn (1977)

Love, World, Sadness, Fear

„Life's hard. To be in peace with oneself, one must speak the truth. To be in peace with others, one must lie.“

— Adolfo Bioy Casares Argentine novelist 1914 - 1999
"La vida es difícil. Para estar en paz con uno mismo hay que decir la verdad. Para estar en paz con el prójimo hay que mentir." Descanso de caminantes, 2001.

Life, Truth, Peace

„That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.“

— H.P. Lovecraft, book The Nameless City

Death, Dead

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„Amy's basically exploiting the sociopath's most reliable maxim. The bigger the lie, the more they believe it.“

— Gillian Flynn, book Gone Girl

„We came to see Jace. Is he alright?"
"I don't know," Magnus said. "Does he normally just lie on the floor like that without moving?“

— Cassandra Clare, book City of Ashes

„Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.“

— Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

People, Wealth

„If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.“

— Adolf Hitler Führer and Reich Chancellor of Germany, Leader of the Nazi Party 1889 - 1945

„Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.“

— Neil Gaiman English fantasy writer 1960
Why our future depends on libraries, reading and daydreaming (2013), Context: We writers – and especially writers for children, but all writers – have an obligation to our readers: it's the obligation to write true things, especially important when we are creating tales of people who do not exist in places that never were – to understand that truth is not in what happens but what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

Truth

„Lie still, lie still, my breaking heart;
My silent heart, lie still and break:
Life, and the world, and mine own self, are changed
For a dream's sake.“

— Christina Rossetti English poet 1830 - 1894

Life, World, Dreams, Change

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