Lies We Tell Ourselves Quotes:

The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.

- Derek Landy

source: Derek Landy (2011). “Death Bringer (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 6)”, p.66, HarperCollins UK

topic: Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves, People

We all have our fictions, little lies we tell ourselves to keep going from one day to the next.

- Ilsa J. Bick

topic: Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves, One Day

And you take care, too, Shahara. Remember the lies we tell ourselves to survive seldom bring peace to our souls. (Nero)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Fire”, p.385, Macmillan

topic: Lying, Lies We Tell Ourselves, Soul, Nero

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

- Pietro Aretino

topic: Inspirational, I Love You, Boyfriend, I Love You Because, Lies We Tell Ourselves

The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid.We fear we will not find love,and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we don't have love we will be unhappy.

- Richard Bach

topic: Love, Fear, Lying, Lies In Love, Lies We Tell Ourselves

The biggest lie is the lie we tell ourselves in the distorted visions we have of ourselves, blocking out some sections, enhancing others. What remains are not the cold facts of life, but how we perceive them. That's really who we are.

- Kirk Douglas

topic: Block, Lying, Vision, Lies We Tell Ourselves

There is no love, there is only the lie we tell ourselves that things are more important than they actually are, that our lives will have meaning beyond all the other lives that have come before us and been forgotten, that there is hope in any of this.

- Chad Kultgen

topic: Lying, Important, Forgotten, Lies We Tell Ourselves

Deliver us from evil - from moral duplicity and weakness, from laziness and spiritual complacency, from those lies we tell ourselves from our fear of facing the truth.

- Rich Mullins

topic: Spiritual, Lying, Duplicity, Lies We Tell Ourselves, Facing The Truth

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

- James Wolcott

topic: Peace, Lying, War, Amplification, Lies We Tell Ourselves