“Love makes liars of us all.”

Variant: Love makes you a liar.
Source: City of Ashes

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Love makes liars of us all." by Cassandra Clare?
Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare 2041
American author 1973

Related quotes

Cassandra Clare photo
Cassandra Clare photo

“Love makes us liars. The Seelie Queen told me that. So don't judge me for lying about how I feel. You do it too.”

Jace to Alec, pg. 138
The Mortal Instruments, City of Glass (2009)

“All men are liars. All women are liars, too.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Burn for Me

Cassandra Clare photo

“Love made you a liar.”

City of Ashes

Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist

On Truth and Lie in an Extra-Moral Sense (1873)
Context: The liar is a person who uses the valid designations, the words, in order to make something which is unreal appear to be real. He says, for example, "I am rich," when the proper designation for his condition would be "poor." He misuses fixed conventions by means of arbitrary substitutions or even reversals of names. If he does this in a selfish and moreover harmful manner, society will cease to trust him and will thereby exclude him. What men avoid by excluding the liar is not so much being defrauded as it is being harmed by means of fraud. Thus, even at this stage, what they hate is basically not deception itself, but rather the unpleasant, hated consequences of certain sorts of deception. It is in a similarly restricted sense that man now wants nothing but truth: he desires the pleasant, life-preserving consequences of truth. He is indifferent toward pure knowledge which has no consequences; toward those truths which are possibly harmful and destructive he is even hostilely inclined.

Deb Caletti photo
Sylvia Plath photo

“And I, love, am a pathological liar.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Harlan Ellison photo
Julian of Norwich photo

“All this was to make us glad and merry in love.”

Julian of Norwich (1342–1416) English theologian and anchoress

The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 38

Related topics