Lying To Ourselves Quotes

“The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“A fear of weakness only strengthens weakness.”
― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

“If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing your face.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“When you're dealing with frauds and liars, listen more to what they don't say than what they do.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“The problem with a person with a lack of love is that they don't know what it looks like. So it's easy for them to get tricked, to see things that aren't there. But then I guess we all lie to ourselves all the time.”
― Charles Forsman, The End of the Fucking World

“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”
― DaShanne Stokes

“I always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Fisherman of the Inland Sea

“Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something.”
― Jane Harper, The Lost Man

“Sometimes I wonder if addicts aren't all that different from anybody else, they are just better at lying to themselves. I was great at lying to myself.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

“Lie long enough and eventually you'll believe yourself.”
― Ahmed Mostafa

“Lying is second nature to him... More than anyone else I have ever met, Trump has the ability to convince himself that whatever he is saying at any given moment is true, or sort of true, or at least ought to be true.”
― Tony Schwartz

“Such an impolite person. He is honest with everyone.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“I had great pity on Ansje, because she always acted very happy, but I believed that it was really a front. I could see through it. Inside she was crying because she was really very sad. You pity people like that -- the ones who try to lie to themselves -- because they suffer so much and don't face reality.”
― Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say

“It's difficult to honest with others when you continue lying to yourself.”
― Carlos Wallace

“What do people gain from lying? Besides losing: your respect, your dignity, your reputation, and those who love you. I guess those few minutes of satisfaction, smiling behind your lies, are soon well worth a lifetime of a regretful guilty conscience.”
― Amir Riveroll

“Repeat a lie a hundred times and it becomes an ideal.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Sometimes, lies were the same things as wishes. Sometimes, wishes were things to hate.”
― Shannon A. Thompson, July Lightning

“The truth will only offend those who would rather defend lies.”
― Carlos Wallace

“I'm trying to stop lying to myself about little things. I'm still working on the big ones.”
― Terry McMillan, I Almost Forgot About You

“Literature is the product of a deep-seated need for honesty. Hence, those who lie most are struck most deeply by it, and those who are honest have no need for it.”
― Anthony Marais

“It's difficult to hones with others when you continue lying to yourself.”
― Carlos Wallace

“There are many lies of all shapes and sizes. No one can hide behind a lie, especially the big ones. The bigger they are, the heavier they get until a person is weighed down so much, they can’t get up again.”
― Jacqueline Edgington, Happy Jack

“Lies are never hidden. No one ever gets away with a lie even if someone “bought” the lie. The lie lingers in the body just as a software program holds space on a computer. How does the lie manifest pain in the body? Anxiety.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“You might gain a little in life by lying, but after death all will be added up and you will be held to account. Tell me, how will you repay such a debt?”
― Tomáš Gavlas, Karlaz: The Way of Freedom

“The problem with college students is that they come into university not knowing what they love, but are handed vocabulary and concepts about their chosen passion, which equips them with rich arguments and rich words that end up fooling people they love something when they are really just passionate about someone else’s passion. Sometimes, people use knowledge as a seat belt to strap themselves in a car that they weren’t supposed to be in. They hold onto mission statements or causes and regurgitate ideas with such great articulation that you (and they) could almost believe they really loved their careers.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Lying to oneself is one of the most idiotic habits. 'Just one more won't hurt.' 'Maybe this time will be different.' How gullible do you have to be 6o believe a lie that you tell yourself? Yet people do it. They do it a lot. It keeps them victims of their own ridiculous games.”
― Annika Martin, Return Billionaire to Sender

“Relationships are often transactional, except of course we want to wallow in self-deception.”
― John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Why do people lie?" I asked him.
"I don't know," he said. "I don't know why we do."
"Why do you lie to your wife?"
"I don't know." He shook his head. "I think maybe it's a weakness, a sign of a need for somethin'. Maybe attention. I don't know. Somethin' more than what I've got. Maybe I'm a prisoner, too.”
― Penelope Przekop, Aberrations

“I used to be amazed at her self-deception, but now I see I am exactly the same. I used to think people only lied to make their lives mean something. Now I think people lie to make their lives meaningless, because it makes them so much easier to live.”
― Dizz Tate, Brutes

“Intentions are the seeds, but actions are the harvest; what you sow is what you reap.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free