It seems like nothing hurts us more than a lie told by someone close to us. About this situation and many more is this collection of quotes about lying below: quotes about lying, quotes about lying and disappointment, quotes about truth and lying, quotes about lying and hypocrisy, quotes about falsehood and lying.
Quotes about lying
It is inevitable that when you are lying you will feel a deep disappointment. The closer the person who lied to you is to you, the more painful the betrayal and disappointment will be. Even when we talk about the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves, when we do not have the courage to tell the truth and deceive ourselves with illusions.
Things split so easily when they were held together by lies. – Dorothy Allison
If your actions do not prove the truth of your words, then your words are nothing more than lies.
Rule number 1. If he asks you about that, it means he knows about it. So don’t tell him lies.
The greatest punishment in this world for a liar is the fact that the truths he tells are rejected. – Imam Ali
The worst feeling in the world is to know that you have been used and lied to.
We lie the strongest when we lie to ourselves. – Eric Hoffer
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. – Ann Landers
You can’t stop someone from doing what they want to do. He will lie to you and continue to do so.
When truth is replaced by silence, silence is a lie. – Yevgeny Yevtushenko
It will be much easier
for someone who allows himself to tell a lie once to tell a lie a second time.
You can fool some people all the time and sometimes all the people, but you can’t fool all the people all the time. – Abraham Lincoln
Better to be slapped with the truth than to be kissed with a lie.
I told the best lies about myself. – Patrick Rothuss
If you tell the truth, it becomes part of your past. If you tell a lie, it becomes part of your future.
If it is sometimes necessary to lie to others, it is detestable to lie to yourself. – W. Somerset Maugham
He lied to you about who he is or you lied
to yourself about it. Keep telling the truth!
By lying I do myself a much greater disservice than if I tell someone else a lie. – Michel de Montaigne
I’m not upset you lied to me. I’m upset because I can’t believe you anymore…
Anything is better than lies and deception. – Lev Tolstoy
Big or small, lies are still lies.
Promises are the sweetest lies.
Lying to others is nothing compared to lying to ourselves. – Derek Landy
A lie has the power to stain a thousand truths. – David
Don’t ask questions and you won’t be lied to. – Charles Dickens, High Hopes
I’m too tired of hiding, too wise to lie.
In time, any lie destroys intimacy, and without intimacy, couples cannot have true and lasting love. – – Bonnie Eaker Weil
I respect those who tell the truth no matter how hard it is to hear the truth. Integrity is everything.
It really hurts me and it never soothes me with a lie.
Even a little lie is dishonorable when used for selfish and cowardly reasons. – Jeanne Birdsall
People lie, actions don’t.
We all lie when our hearts are hungry.
The mistake that 99% of people make is to be ashamed of who they are, to lie about who they are, to want to look like someone else. – JK Rowling
The truth is like surgery. It hurts but it heals. Pain is like a sedative. It instantly relieves you of pain, but the side effects last forever.
Just because you believe the lies you tell yourself, don’t expect me to believe them.
Quotes about lying and disappointment
Whether we lie to ourselves or to others, lies are painful. Both unknown or famous authors have spoken about this thought, about betrayal, about hypocrisy and half-truths or simply outright lies. Below are some of the most powerful and expressive quotes about the lie that I have been able to identify for you.
People do not want to hear the truth because their illusions are not destroyed. – Friedrich Nietzsche
The saddest thing about being betrayed is that betrayal never comes from enemies.
One of the hardest things in life is to let go of what you thought was real but it was just a lie.
It is impossible for a man who loves you to lie to you over and over again. You don’t hurt the people you love.
The worst thing about being lied to is that you didn’t deserve the truth.
Infidelity is not about love, it is about a disordered system of needs, an inability to set boundaries, an exaggerated sense of what you deserve, a problem of addiction, unresolved internal tensions for a long time, a sense of inadequacy , plus more…
I have confidence issues because people lie.
I never underestimate my ability to admit a lie when I hear it. Just because I don’t tell you you’re lying doesn’t mean you fooled me.
Not telling me something or hiding something from me is like lying.
A true man will be honest no matter how painful the truth. A coward hides behind lies and concealments.
I hate to be suspicious but my intuition is always right…
Quotes about truth and lies
The truth is less and less common, lying is often the order of the day. Where did the expression fake news come from more recently. Basically we live in a world of carefully constructed illusions or gross lies. But in our intimate and close space is our choice how we want to live, in truth or falsehood and how many compromises we are willing to make, accepting the lies of others or not. Here are some more quotes about the importance of truth and the pettiness of lying.
Honesty is a very expensive gift, don’t expect it from cheap people.
A lie has many versions, the truth alone. – African proverb
You can face hard truths, you can triumph over them, but lies will destroy your soul. – Patricia Briggs
When someone lies to you, it’s because they don’t respect you enough to be honest with you and because they think you’re too stupid to tell the difference between lying and truth.
Time will inevitably reveal the lies and lack of sincerity. History has no place for lies. – Norodom Sihanouk
The best thing about telling the truth is that you don’t have to remember what you said, that when you lie…
There’s no reason to lie to me. I am understanding. I understand that life is hard. That unwanted things can happen. Just tell me the truth.
A lie that is half true is the darkest lie. – Alfred Tennyson
Anyone who says he is a good liar is obviously not, because good liars would always insist that they are extremely honest. – Chuck Klosterman
Quotes about lying and hypocrisy
Hypocrisy, lies, half-truths, secrets. For some people this is a way of life, for others it is inconceivable to have to do with the hypocrisy of others, because it denotes doubtful characters and total disrespect. Then you can’t trust someone who lied to you. These and other ideas can be found below in the following quotes about lies and hypocrisy, only expressed more elegantly and expressively.
He tells a lie once and all the truths told so far will be questioned.
You have beautiful manners for a thief and a liar. – JRR Tolkien
The hypocrites are the ones who try to convince the world and themselves that they are quality people, while they continue to be mean every day.
A lie does not come true, what is wrong does not become right and evil does not turn into good, just because most accept them.
I would rather be known in life as a sincere sinner than as a lying hypocrite.
A sincere enemy is always better than a lying friend. Don’t pay too much attention to what people say, but especially pay attention to what they do. Their actions will show what the truth is.
Don’t lie to an analyst. It will never end well. Their minds are trained to look for inconsistencies in the story. And if something doesn’t work out, they’ll find it…
Lying to ourselves is more common than lying to others. – Dostoevsky
Quotes about falsehood and lying
Some of us choose to be fake, to hide our real face, to always play as in a mirror characters who are not themselves. Falsehood, lying, play of shadows and light between real people, with specific thoughts, feelings and sensibilities are mentioned in the quotes about falsehood below. Falsehood comes to completely cover any shadow of truth and authenticity, being extremely toxic both to the one who chooses to be false and to those around him.
Narcissists try to destroy your life with lies because they know that their life can be destroyed by the truth.
Secrets and lies destroy relationships. No matter how careful you are, you will be caught.
The truth hurts only once, but a lie hurts every time you remember it.
I never lie. At least the ones I don’t love – Anne Rice
Liars are always ready to swear. – Vittorio Alfieri
The confidence of the innocent is the best tool of the liar. – Stephen King
Do not lie or keep secrets in a relationship. You are in a relationship to get closer, not to hide things and destroy mutual trust.
Liars are the cause of all the sins and crimes in the world – Epictetus
Lying is done with words, but also with silence. – Adrienne Rich
When someone is punished for honesty, they learn to lie. – Criss Jami
Lies and secrets are like a cancer of the soul. Consume all that is good and leave only destruction. – Cassandra Clare
These are some of the most powerful and expressive quotes about lies I have ever found, from quotes about hypocrisy, falsehood, disappointment at lying, quotes about truth and falsehood, and more. We hope you have found among them the quotes that best represent how you really feel when you think about lying and being betrayed by telling yourself a lie. It is definitely painful, you feel used, you feel that you have not been respected, you feel that everything you have invested in that relationship has been in vain, a waste of time and energy. It’s normal to feel this way, lying has this boomerang effect and we should find the strength in ourselves to make the best decision about the person who lied to us.
