Self-lies Quote by Dennis Lehane

“Well, he used to say that only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed. He also said that nothing had to…

— Isaac Asimov

“Just when a man makes a decision that everything he's believed his whole life is a lie, something comes along tempting him to believe…

— Brent Weeks

“Again it became suddenly plain and perceptible to him that he had just told a fearful lie - that he would never now be…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He lied, but he fooled no one, and everyone has a right to try to fool themselves sometimes.”

— Shawn Mihalik

“All I knew is that I could not continue living a lie.”

— Charles Benedict

“he was a sincere man who believed in everything he said, even if it was a lie, which makes him not so different from…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“I sometimes believe his lies are the truth, but I have never mistaken his truth for a lie. If he needs me to believe…

— Megan Whalen Turner

“For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, "I am the truth.”

— Augustine of Hippo

“Whoever does not believe himself always lies.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“He had been guilty once or twice of believing he understood, only to discover he did not... There were times, he saw, when not…

— Rachel Joyce

“I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.”

— Marlen Haushofer

“Of all the people I could lie to, I’d always been best at lying to myself.”

— Robin Hobb