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“The fact is that we have no way of knowing if the person who we think we are is at the core of our being. Are you a decent girl with the potential to someday become an evil monster, or are you an evil monster that thinks it's a decent girl?"

"Wouldn't I know which one I was?"

"Good God, no. The lies we tell other people are nothing to the lies we tell ourselves.”
― Derek Landy, Death Bringer

“He who dares not offend cannot be honest.”
― Thomas Paine

“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: like a man, who hath thought of a good repartee when the discourse is changed, or the company parted; or like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead.”
― Jonathan Swift

“I don't mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I´m telling the perfect truth.”
― Patrick Rothfuss, The Wise Man's Fear

“I don't want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.”
― Kellie Elmore

“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“What is better: uncomfortable truth or comfortable lies? Every truth is a kindness, even if it makes others uncomfortable. Every untruth is an unkindness, even if it makes others comfortable.
—Liz Gilbert”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“Perception is reality to the one in the experience.”
― Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

“It is so much more threatening to have something out of hand than to believe that at any moment I can stop (I started to say "This foolishness") any time I need to. When I wrote the previous letter, I had made up my mind I would show you how I could be very composed and cool and not need to ask you to listen to me nor to explain anything to me nor need any help. By telling you that all this about the multiple personalities was not really true but just put on, I could show, or so I thought, that I did not need you. Well, it would have been easier if it were put on. But the only ruse of which I'm guilty is to have pretended for so long before coming to you that nothing was wrong. Pretending that the personalities did not exist has now caused me to lose about two days.
Three weeks later Sybil reaffirmed her belief in the existence of her other selves in a letter to Miss Updyke, the school nurse of undergraduate days.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

“A story is not always a lie," said Tristan. "Some stories are truer than truth."
Truer than truth? That sounded like something liars made up to tell people who found them out.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, Tris & Izzie

“If there is the truth to be told to the young, is the truth of not to lie.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“If your truth is your own, so are your delusions.”
― Karen "Zow" Kolzow, Knots In Aunty's Rope

“A verdade tem o dom de enlouquecer. Talvez por isso tantos vivam na mentira.”
― Eliana Alves Cruz, O crime do cais do Valongo

“... the official history of this world is not necessarily to be believed.”
― Sarah J. Maas, House of Sky and Breath

“Lies were sweet. Why was the truth always so bitter?”
― Bert-Oliver Boehmer, Galacticide

“What is memory but the fashioning of a deep and personal fiction? In memory, we shape the world around ourselves, as if to prove our own existence, to demonstrate the mark we have left upon the universe. We become heralds of something better; the guiding light by which we believe all others might navigate. This, then, is the comfort we award ourselves for the act of living, for to comprehend the truth â€� that the universe is cold and ambivalent at best, and at worst despises our very existence â€� is to contemplate madness. So it is that we grow to love the lie.”
― George Mann, Awakenings

“What if the real Minu was out there in the world somewhere? And here I was, trapped in this awful life I wasn’t supposed to be living.”
― Minu Cash, The Painted Pink Dress: A Daughter’s Story of Family, Betrayal, and Her Search for the Truth

“I’m not sure you even know where your truths end and your lies begin.”
― Richard S. Ford, Stealing Orpheon

“When it's your season, God will turn every no into a yes.”
― Carlos Wallace, Why Sell Lies When The Truth Is Free

“All is One in totality, and reality. Get it anyhow. Through science. Or spirituality.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“The truth is still the truth even if you don’t like it or try to deny it.”
― Brian Reese

“Life, love and lust would be so much easier if we were able to be frank about our feelings and intentions.”
― Sarah Kurchak, I Overcame My Autism and All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir

“All life, of whatever kind, in its soul-composition and innate-substratum, is One. Thus, there is no higher or lower life. At the Beginning and at the End, in self-realization, all's found to be only an infinite indivisibility of eternity, of That Which Is. One.”
― Fakeer Ishavardas

“Shattered mirrors
on the living room floor,
a place where mirrors �
in any form �
should not be.

Lying and laying �
up and down the room
they reflect each whole thing,
its completeness,
as if the very sight
could harm us �
so perfect, so unreal
from their perspective.

I drown on the floorboards,
you waste my tears
by drying them.

All the lies,
the lies you told,
up and down the room
like mirrors, broken ones.

Truth reflects nothing
unless it’s broken.

Outside this room,
you roam the hallways,
searching for feelings within.

Dating a lie,
dangerous and monstrous
like your mind and soul.
Survival is a matter of time
and a dance on balanced sheets.

The shattered pieces still lie there �
waiting for completeness to end,
chaos ensuring perfection.

The lies fall still
in the afternoon light
that rests on the floorboards.

Breathing easily now,
vanishing glimpses �
truth fades slowly,
holding no place
between you and me
and all the lies you told.”
― Laura Chouette

“Tongues are more dreadful instruments than can be made with hammers and anvils, and the harm they inflict cuts deeper and spreads wider.”
― Charles Haddon Spurgeon

“It was hard to disbelieve a lie she had believed for so long.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exchange

“As for frankness, I have observed that people who boast of being frank generally are so for one reason. They want to hurt others. They say they are frank because of their love for truth. But they lie to themselves and fail to deceive others with this lie.”
― Philip José Farmer, Up the Bright River

“Um erro original vale talvez mais do que uma verdade corriqueira.”
― Fiodor Dostoïevski, Crime e Castigo

“The Lie said to the Truth-
"Let's take a bath together,
the well water is very nice.

The Truth, still suspicious,
tested the water and found out
it really was nice.

So they got naked and bathed.

But suddenly, the Lie leapt out of the water
and fled, wearing the clothes of the Truth.
The Truth, furious, climbed out of the well
to get her clothes back.

But the World, upon seeing the naked Truth,
looked away, with anger and contempt.

Poor Truth returned to the well and disappeared
forever, hiding her shame.

Since then, the Lie runs around the world,
dressed as the Truth, and society is very happy.
Because the world has no desire to know
the naked Truth.”
― Jean-Léon Gérome, Jean-Léon Gérôme - Paintings & Drawings

“Stories aren’t lies; they are integral to our search for truth and meaning. Our species has been trying to make sense of the world through stories since the dawn of mankind. What is curiosity if not our thirst for truth? Whether the story is real or imaginary, we seek the truth within it, hoping to learn something relevant to our own lives.”
― Will Raywood, Trust Your Story: Master Storytelling and Build a Successful Creative Writing Career