We Lie Quotes

67 We Lie quotes by 55 unique authors

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having… — Terry Goodkind
When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still… — Neil Gaiman
Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night? — William Shakespeare
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
the sense of being which in calm hours arises, we know not how, in the soul, is not diverse from things, from space, from light,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake… — Jeanette Winterson
We lie under the network of arching shells and live in a suspense of uncertainty. If a shot comes, we can duck, that is all;… — Erich Maria Remarque
Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room… — Sara Gruen
Beached under the spumy blooms, we lie Sea-sick and fever-dry. — Sylvia Plath
Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake at night willing the darkness to part and show us a vision. — Jeanette Winterson
We lie best when we lie to ourselves. — Stephen King
Believe me, I know and I almost made the same mistake you did. Evil is seductive. It’s what makes the two of them so dangerous.… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
The ancients believed in fate because they recognized how hard it is for anyone to change anything. The pull of past and future is so… — Jeanette Winterson
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by, that here obedient to their laws we lie. — Steven Pressfield
We know so little about each other. We lie mostly submerged, like ice floes, with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. — Ian Mcewan
At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be… — Deb Caletti
And now, Elric had told three lies. The first concerned his cousin Yyrkoon. The second concerned the Black Sword. The third concerned Cymoril. And upon… — Michael Moorcock
We are cut, we are fallen. We are become part of that unfeeling universe that sleeps when we are at our quickest and burns red… — Virginia Woolf
He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial. — Holly Black
We efface an hour by passionate love, without twists, without aftertaste. When it is finished, it is not finished, we lie still in each other's… — Anais Nin
By lying, we deny others a view of the world as it is. Our dishonesty not only influences the choices they make, it often determines… — Sam Harris
And his paths shall be many, and who shall know his name, for he shall be beorn among us many times, in many guises, as… — Robert Jordan
Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you, we lie for… — Lionel Shriver
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We lie in each other's arms eyes shut and fingers open and all the colors of the world pass through our bodies like strings of… — Marge Piercy

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