34 Quotes About Lying-to-ourselves

It’s going to be okay, Eric," Urte said, helping me sit up. I shook my head. "Lying is my forte, Urte, not yours.” (Eric.)

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.

Among today's adept practitioners, the lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. The lie, once a liberal means of communication, has today become one of the techniques of insolence enabling each individual to spread around him the glacial atmosphere in whose shelter he can thrive.

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.

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

Writers are liars trying to come clean. That’s why the best ones are the most tragic.

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.

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

The brain is unreliable. It relies on lies.