False Quotes

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God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we… — Sylvia Plath
Vain are the beliefs and teachings that make man miserable, and false is the goodness that leads him into sorrow and despair, for it is… — Khalil Gibran
Iâ€™m a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! -… — Grant Morrison
To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The Photograph is an extended, loaded evidence â€” as if it caricatured not the figure of what it represents (quite the converse) but its very… — Roland Barthes
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead… — Henry Ward Beecher
Here too itâ€™s masquerade, I find: As everywhere, the dance of mind. I grasped a lovely masked procession, And caught things from a horror showâ€¦… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To be godless is probably the first step to innocence," he said, "to lose the sense of sin and subordination, the false grief for things… — Anne Rice
Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all. — Og Mandino
Youâ€™ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits.… — Libba Bray
All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their… — Margaret Atwood
Bless people when they revile you. Think how much good they are doing by helping to stamp out the false ego. — Swami Vivekananda
Blessed are the destroyers of false hope, for they are the true Messiahs - Cursed are the god-adorers, for they shall be shorn sheep! — Anton Szandor LaVey
It often seems to me that's all detective work is, wiping out your false starts and beginning again." Yes, it is very true, that. And… — Agatha Christie
A religion contradicting science and a science contradicting religion are equally false. — P D Ouspensky
You can never get to a person's mind. You cannot know the different deeds and missions of happiness; you can't tell a screm of pleasure… — Ibi Kaslik
Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful… — Charles Dickens
It was often this way, life consisted of a series of false beginnings, bluff declarations of arrival to destinations not even glimpsed. — Jonathan Lethem
A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful. — Guy de Maupassant

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