Quotes About Comforting Lies

#1. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Patrick Ness

#2. Comforting lies are better than a hurting truth, is my policy, but it's impossible to lie in front of you

D. Aswini

#3. Comforting lies get far too easy with practice.

Peter Watts

#4. Shadow wondered whether the path of comforting lies would have been a better one to walk.

Anonymous

#5. Kids delight in 'magical thinking', whether in the form of the Tooth Fairy or the saints: whether you see these as comforting lies or eternal verities, they are part of how we help kids make sense of the world.

Emma Donoghue

#6. Today we see the art of the past as nobody saw it before. We actually perceive it in a different way.

John Berger

#7. Because I love you...Not just when it's easy. All the time.

Ann Aguirre

#8. But each country has to advance and move at its own speed.

Al-Waleed Bin Talal

#9. It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.

Rod Dreher

#10. I'm a citizen of the republic of empathy.

Sam Lipsyte

#11. How do rich people think and act?

T. Harv Eker

#12. The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life.

Billy Graham

#13. I wasn't involved in anything. I wasn't out - you know, I know I wasn't in ACT UP. I wasn't with Larry Kramer. I wasn't by his side. I wasn't saying what I should do, because, by all accounts, I was a drug addict and an alcoholic. And I was living in a complete bubble of self-absorption.

Elton John