
Top 63 Lies Hurt Quotes
#1. The truth might hurt but lies hurt even more.
Rob Liano
#2. Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.
Dean Koontz
#3. Remember, the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever.
Gena Showalter
#5. I was trying to spare her any further stress( ... )I wasn't
trying to be deceitful
Quinn Loftis
#6. Don't even try making out I'm making this up. I've got proof. Evidence.
Diane Samuels
#8. Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.
Marianne Williamson
#11. Lies and half-truths hurt not only the liar, but the people they love most.
Katherine Allred
#12. The point - the power to hurt - of all figures lies in the truthfulness of their application.
Abraham Lincoln
#13. Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the trust that they will not last forever, that hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. It is faith that a source of strength and renewal lies within to lead us through the dark into the sunshine.
Liz Chase
#14. I remember I've never shared tears with someone that longed
for (me) and loved me; I didn't know how to be compassionate.
(The truth, the lies & the love, p. 76)
Chimnese Davids
#15. My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.
Drake
#16. It is better to be hurt with the truth than to be encouraged with lies ...
Adedayo Kingjerry
#17. She isn't acting hurt, she is acting angry," Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.
"I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively combat a lie is with the truth.
Sarah Holman
#19. Do not be such a baby," he jeered, tugging my hands free.
"It hurts!" I howled.
"Of course it does." He laughed. "It hurt me too. Did you think becoming a vampire was easy? Get used to the pain. Much of it lies ahead.
Darren Shan
#20. I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.
Eric Ambler
#21. What you see will hurt you; what you don't see will hurt you.
Anthony Liccione
#22. Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Victor Hugo
#23. Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#24. I'm hopeless at telling lies. I can attempt strategic ones in order not to hurt people's feelings, but then I'll blow it 10 minutes later.
Nicholas Haslam
#25. I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang.
Richard Chamberlain
#26. What you don't know won't hurt you. A dubious maxim: sometimes what you don't know can hurt you very much.
Margaret Atwood
#27. TRUTH may hurt temporarily, but LIES leave marks permanently.
Shiv Khera
#28. Call it an issue. Call it baggage. But I really hated lies. They're ugly things, festering like wounds, spreading like disease. They're winner-less crimes that hurt everybody in the end.
Cora Carmack
#29. Here lies Matthew Mudd,
Death did him no hurt;
When alive he was only Mudd,
But now he's only dirt.
Mel Blanc
#30. Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
Khaled Hosseini
#31. I always find the worst lies are told in relationships - I learned to never lie about your happiness in order to save someone's feelings from being hurt.
Kirsten Prout
#32. I think you've been trying so hard to control everything, intentionally picking the wrong people, just so you won't get hurt. And now you're starting to believe that you're incapable of anything more. You're beginning to believe your own lies." "Maybe.
Vi Keeland
#33. For us to move forward, we have to develop the courage to forward what is behind...the hurt/pain and unpleasant memories that haunt us in the dark moments. We must hold on to our faith as we step out in boldness, strongly believing that our very best lies ahead.
Kemi Sogunle
#34. Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
Gunter Grass
#35. Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free.
Anthony Liccione
#36. Words don't hurt you. Which is one of the hugest criminal lies perpetrated by adults against children in this world. Because words hurt more than any physical pain.
Neal Shusterman
#37. Remember babe, hurting people hurt people. And that doesn't make it right, and it won't ever make it okay. I just don't want to see you with a hurting someone that hurts people every single day.
Hope Alcocer
#38. It lies here deep in the heart, the small chest of pain
Sharp words like daggers placed it here
To fill with hurt
In filling it grew heavy and drug me down
For to not feel is not to live
Until I rest at last in dirt
The worst of you got the best of me ...
Neil Leckman
#40. There is nothing more entertaining then leaving someone speechless. Yet, there is nothing sadder than realizing that person was incapable of retaining half of what you said, and will repeat the story all wrong to someone else.
Shannon L. Alder
#41. It's not the lies that hurt people. It's the willingness of everyone else to believe them ...
Aiden, Upon the Midnight Clear by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#42. Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.
Alexia Chase
#43. Because that saying about sticks and stones is a pack of lies. Unkind words hurt more than anything else. You end up carrying them around in your head, wondering if they're true. Bruises fade, but self-doubt follows you forever.
Kate Lattey
#44. In the last few days, I have been the victim of a campaign of slander and shameful lies, a campaign which has deeply shocked and hurt me. Enough is enough.
Dominique De Villepin
#45. Words are such powerful things. We can rip somebody apart with them, we can write words down that can forever hurt another person. We can use them to tell stories and lies. We can misquote them and change what other people said to make ourselves look good ...
Joan Bauer
#46. Tragedy, loss, and hurt often arrive unanticipated. How we react when we are surprised will tell our families whether what we have taught and testified lies deep in our hearts.
Henry B. Eyring
#47. The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth.
Criss Jami
#48. Stretched and skewed
Tap of the 8-ball and the cue
Scratches fall through
They are the scars of you
Criss Jami
#49. You hurt her by starving yourself, you hurt her with your lies, and by fighting everybody who tries to help you. Emma can only sleep a couple of hours a night now. She's haunted by nightmares of monsters that eat our whole family. They eat us slowly, she says, so we can feel their sharp teeth.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#50. Instead of spending your days focusing on your sense of hurt or loss, allow the Lord to bless you with the grace to believe that what lies ahead will glorify Him. It is the closest thing to true worship that we have in this life, and so often we miss it. I miss it.
Angie Smith
#51. No one ever gets tired of loving. But everyone gets tired of waiting, assuming, hearing lies, and hurting.
Megan Fox
#52. Some tragedies bind us, as lies do; they are ropes braided of hurt and bitterness, and you cannot ever fully understand how pinioned you are until the ties are loosened.
Lyndsay Faye
#53. It is better to believe an obvious lie, than to swallow a deceitful truth.
Dennis E. Adonis
#54. It's better to be hurt by the truth than to gain satisfaction from the lies.
David Allan
#55. The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.
Katie Dale
#57. My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.
Christopher Titus
#58. The words come out of my mouth, but they don't sound like me. I don't sound like me. Probably because I know it's all lies. But I can see that they're lies that Reeve believes. He swallows them whole. His eyes go blank. Empty. He completely shuts down.
Jenny Han
#59. The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.
Wayne Thomas Batson
#61. The truth hurts, but those lies heal.
Drake
#62. You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes.
Bob Dylan
#63. Betrayal is advancing myself at the expense of the one who I committed myself to advance.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
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