Top 84 Quotes About Living A Lie
#1. Better to live in the truth, however terrible, than to murder your true self by living a lie.
Susan Howatch
#2. But I feel that you, in particular, are a person who cannot live without love." "Yet I am living without love." "Then you are either living a lie or not living at all.
Nawal El Saadawi
#3. Living a lie tore at one's being and leaked out in the oddest of places.
Kim Harrison
#4. He'd been living a lie since he arrived. He'd pretended to be a local, yet had loathed everything about Milwaukee. Now Al knew differently. He didn't want to be anything else but himself: a cheese curd-loving, festival-going, Brew Crew fan who adored the most incredible chef in the city.
Amy E. Reichert
#5. Chronic dissatisfaction is how you sense that you are living a lie.
David Deida
#6. Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.
Ashly Lorenzana
#7. I learned not to trust people; I learned not to believe what they say but to watch what they do; I learned to suspect that anyone and everyone is capable of 'living a lie'. I came to believe that other people - even when you think you know them well - are ultimately unknowable.
Lynn Barber
#8. If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.
Joseph Curiale
#9. Living a religious sexual lifestyle is tantamount to living a lie.
Religion distorts our sexuality when the majority of religious people live one life for the public and another in private. It can be as simple as living as a "happily married" couple when you are both miserable with your sex life.
Darrel Ray
#10. When I turn the lights out, when I close my eyes, reality overcomes me, I'm living a lie.
Avril Lavigne
#11. If the main pillar of the system is living a lie," wrote Havel, "then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth." Since
Timothy Snyder
#12. Believing that you are a human being is believing a lie, and living as a human being is living a lie. Knowing that you are Spirit causes you to live a life of a Spirit.
J.K. Norry
#13. I feel like you can't really be truthful as an artist and empathize with the human experience, unless you know your truth and you're not living a lie. So I'm learning through it, and it's making me a better person, and it's making me a better artist, I think.
Diane Guerrero
#14. Life is a dilemma between living a lie and speaking one.
Tapan Ghosh
#15. There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.
Cornel West
#16. Tobin had spent the first twelve years of his life living a lie, and the last two trying to ignore the truth.
Lynn Flewelling
#17. Maybe Christ was promoting Buddhism, maybe Buddha wasn't a prophet, maybe the Quran is older than its Prophet, and maybe we shouldn't spend another two thousand years living a lie, just because we fear the truth and the darkness it reveals within us.
Daniel Marques
#18. We must live a genuine life in order to discover personal happiness and self-fulfillment. Understanding that a person is living a lie is the first step into realizing what is possible. No matter how frightful such a proposition is, we must dare to be an original self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#20. I don't live a lie. You have to understand that people who choose not to discuss their personal lives are not living a lie. That is a presumption that people jump to.
Kevin Spacey
#21. Confirmation bias is the most effective way to go on living a lie.
Criss Jami
#22. Astrology's roots lie in an ancient world-view which perceived the universe as a single living organism, animated by divine order and intelligence.
Liz Greene
#23. Here lies a
wretched corse, of wretched soul bereft:
Seek not my name: a plague consume you wicked
caitiffs left!
Here lie I, Timon; who, alive, all living men did hate:
Pass by and curse thy fill, but pass and stay
not here thy gait.
William Shakespeare
#24. As I see, 90%+ (and not less than that) of people go about their lives living 90%+ (and not less) of a lie. choose a different way and live the least truth you might be.
Mphezulu Xetho Dainamyk
#25. When I was little, I would always lie about the stupidest things. In kindergarten or first grade, I would tell people I had tigers living in my attic and a room full of gold.
Kendall Jenner
#26. Life is a lie if truth is not found. Truth is just an idea if it is not lived. It is living that matters.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#27. If you have something to hide, I'm your worst nightmare. I'm a living, breathing, and walking lie detector. I can smell you down to the type of soap you use, your morning ritual, and the last time you took a hand and stroked your favorite body part. Everything leaves behind a scent ... Everything.
Ashley Jeffery
#28. It becomes a game, whispered and breathless.
"I hide who I am."
"I fight with the dead."
"I lie to the living."
"I am alone.
Victoria Schwab
#29. A lie has forgiveness. A deceive doesn't. The difference is in lying to protect and deceiving to harm.
Eulalia Marques
#30. Ever since the Federal reserve was born, (in 1913) we have been living under a lie.
Michael Maloney
#31. Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
Caitlyn Jenner
#32. I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert. A wasteland. I won't live in a wasteland. I'd rather die in paradise.
Lev Grossman
#33. Let's live a lie for today.
You'll spin tales
and pretend to love me.
And I'll smile; you'll not realize it's fake
Then I'll pretend
your pretensions don't cause me pain.
Sreesha Divakaran
#34. If you think you have never been angry or that at the moment you are not an angry person then you are living in a lie. Anger is God given and everyone is an angry person.
Briggette Carlos
#35. Well you can't believe everything you read. After all, by definition, fiction writers lie for a living.
Janette Rallison
#36. In real life, the truth is a rarity, while lies are common place.
Eraldo Banovac
#37. TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off
Sylvia Plath
#38. You must do what you need to do to survive, but you will never survive your own heart if you don't also make it a need.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. (The enemy) laughs at your attempts to fix your own issues with timely words and hard work - tactics that might affect matters for a moment but can't begin to touch his underhanded, cunning efforts down where the root issues lie.
Priscilla Shirer
#40. This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering. The thing which has been living in your imagination suddenly become part of the tangible world. It matters not how many ranges, rivers or parching dusty ways may lie between you; it is yours now for ever.
Freya Stark
#41. We can put the chairs in a circle, but as long as they are occupied by people who have an
inner hierarchy, the circle itself will have a divided life, one more form of "living within the lie": a false community.
Parker J. Palmer
#42. A lie is still a lie
even if it's disguised
as the truth.
Sherman Kennon
#43. Tomorrow the rush of men, all working for a living, would drown him; but now, at this moment, in this soft green twilight, this soft green Sunday evening, when the heart of the world seemed to lie beating in the palm of his hand, he sat in that huge house upstairs terrified that he would never live.
Andrew Holleran
#44. Chronological living is a kind of lie. That's why I don't do it anymore. Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other. Completing the days of your life in strict calendar order can feel forced. Arbitrary.
Charles Yu
#46. I know you, Ruth Ann Carver. I know you better than you know yourself. You think you do things right. You think you're a paragon of right living. This is a self-told lie, one bolstered by your coddling parents and grandparents.
Carolyn Lee Adams
#47. To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#48. I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Jack Kerouac
#50. I couldn't keep living this lie for a minute more. I've been sober for two hundred and eighty-three days. My sobriety requires me to apologize to you, but my heart can't take another day without you knowing how much I still love you, and how deeply sorry I am for the pain I've caused you.
Kindle Alexander
#51. I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.
Tiger Woods
#52. The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon
it would lie outside the experience of all living men.
Arthur C. Clarke
#53. The glow of delicioous tension coudn't be faked, not at any price. So when you leave, that's when you realise you've been living in a lie.
Lesley Lokko
#54. There is not a person in this courtroom who has never told a lie, who has never done an immoral thing, and there is no man living who has never looked upon a woman without desire." Atticus
Harper Lee
#55. Can you see why I can't stand a lie? People have been lying to me all my life. Even the person I loved the most in the world."
Sometimes people lie for good reasons," Jonah said. "To keep you safe, or to avoid breaking your heart, or to make it possible for you to go on living.
Cinda Williams Chima
#56. Sleep is a patch of death, but three in the morn, full wide-eyed staring, is living death! You dream with your eyes open. God, if you had the strength to rouse up, you'd slaughter your half-dreams with a buckshot! But no, you lie pinned to a deep well-bottom that's burned dry.
Ray Bradbury
#57. Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die
William Cowper
#58. A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.
Melody Carstairs
#59. A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie? Blinking,
Steven Erikson
#60. I was living a complete lie. But unfortunately, guilt doesn't make you stop.
Jodie Sweetin
#61. The power of prayer does not lie in the number or earnestness of the words you use, but in a living faith that God Himself accepts both you and your prayer into His loving heart.
Andrew Murray
#62. The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie.
Malcolm X
#63. Man is a living lie
a bitter jest Upon himself
a conscious grain of sand Lost in a desert of unconsciousness.
Amos Bronson Alcott
#64. A mundane lie hiding an exotic truth is deception; an exotic lie hiding a mundane truth is storytelling. Deception may be necessary to preserve life, but storytelling makes life worth living.
Christopher Buehlman
#66. Dammit, white folk are always giving orders, it's a habit with them. Why didn't you make an excuse? You're black and living in the South
did you forget how to lie?
Ralph Ellison
#67. Blame doesn't empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don't want to be because you don't want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your own life's happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#68. It takes thirty-three days to write a book
only thirty-three days. remember, writers lie for a living.
Darynda Jones
#69. Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very well; that is the book you want to study while you are living. There is but one such book in the world.
Joseph Cook
#70. Unless you've been living under a rock, you should know that material things lie. Supercars lie, houses lie, shiny stuff lie. Men lie, women lie. But remember this: it is IMPOSSIBLE for the eyes to lie. They
Robert Moore
#71. Do everything with your whole heart, or not at all. Don't put up with lies or with people who lie to you. Don't risk hurting people just for the fun of it. And lastly, your best foot shouldn't be put forward; it should be with you at all times - right there beside the other one.
C. JoyBell C.
#72. Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.
Joan Jett
#73. The train stops. We are almost opposite Jess and Jason's house, but I can't see across the carriage and the tracks, there are too many people in the way. I wonder whether they are there, whether he knows, whether he's left, or whether he's still living a life he's yet to discover is a lie.
Paula Hawkins
#74. I realized it was all a lie. This life I was living was a pretty picture on the outside, but it wasn't real. On the inside, it was hollow and meaningless and I realized that's not who I wanted to be for the rest of my life.
Sarra Cannon
#76. We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.
Shannon L. Alder
#77. Waking up in TRUTH is so much better than living in a lie.
Idris Elba
#78. We enjoy telling ourselves that we will soon be gods, masters of the planet, manipulating the genes of living creatures and rebuilding the world at a nano-level as we lie back in our hammocks, attended by our robot servants. I don't believe a word of it, and I'm not sure many of us do.
Paul Kingsnorth
#79. As seductive as it might have been to erase the grief and pain of the last ten years, it was also a lie. Young Alice was a fool. A sweet, innocent fool. Young Alice hadn't experienced ten years of living.
Liane Moriarty
#80. As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
David Nicholls
#81. All my life I have lied. I lied to escape, I lied to be loved, I lied for placement and power; I lied to lie. It was a way of living; lies are life's almost-anagram.
John Banville
#82. Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.
Jimmy Buffett
#83. I was living a life of a lie, I really was.
Tiger Woods
#84. That's what living in their world is-a big lie. An illusion where everyone looks the other way and pretends that nothing unpleasant exists at all, no goblins of the dark, no ghosts of the soul.
Libba Bray
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