Lies Quotes for Healing and Moving On

Lies are some of the most powerful forms of betrayal.

If you’ve been lied to, you can find comfort in these lies quotes, and be reminded that you are not alone in your pain.

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According to a survey by Statista in 2021, lying is one of the most common forms of betrayal in relationships, with 38% of Americans reporting being lied to by a romantic partner.

This statistic underscores the significant impact that dishonesty can have on relationships and the importance of trust in building strong connections.

So why do we find it so hard to forgive?

Often, we love our liars, and the lie is disguised as the truth.

But really, when it comes to any relationship, the truth is the most important thing for moving forward.

These lies quotes highlight what it feels like to be betrayed and how important the truth is.

They explore the dangers of lies, and the importance of moving on, so that maybe, one day, you can forgive.

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Lies Quotes About Betrayal

A 2015 study published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology found that people who lie frequently experience less guilt and anxiety compared to those who lie infrequently.

This finding suggests that habitual lying can have a numbing effect on one’s moral compass and can make it easier to engage in deceitful behavior.

1. “I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

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2. “When truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie.” – Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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3. “Anything is better than lies and deceit!” – Leo Tolstoy

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4. “Lying is done with words, and also with silence.” – Adrienne Rich

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5. “You don’t lie to the person you love. It’s the most horrible thing to do as a lover.” – Unknown

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6. “I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.” – Anne Sexton

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7. “The worst part about being lied to is known that to that person, you weren’t worth the truth.” – Unknown

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8. “Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.” – Khaled Hosseini

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9. “We’re all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.” – Rudyard Kipling

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10. “Always sleep with one eye open. Never take anything for granted. Your best friends might just be your enemies.” – Sara Shepard

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11. “Every time you lie, it brings me a little closer to goodbye.” – Unknown

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12. “The cruelest lies are often told in silence.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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13. “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” –Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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14. “Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.” – Toba Beta

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15. “One like has the power to tarnish a thousand truths.” – Al David

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16. “Of all the lies I’ve heard, ‘I love you,’ was my favorite.” – Unknown

17. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” – Dorothy Allison

18. “There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one’s self on lies and fables.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

19. “Never lie to someone who trust you. Never trust someone who lies to you.” – Unknown

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Lies Quotes About the Importance of Truth

A survey conducted by the University of Massachusetts in 2010 found that lying is a common behavior among people, with 60% of respondents reporting lying at least once during a 10-minute conversation.

This statistic highlights how pervasive lying can be in everyday interactions and raises questions about the motivations behind this behavior.

20. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

21. “Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky

22. “If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” – Virginia Woolf

23. “It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.” – Ally Carter

24. “A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.” – Tim O’Brien

25. “Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” – Michael Jackson

26. “We’re going to have to let truth scream louder to our souls than the lies that have infected us.” – Beth Moore

27. “Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile.” – Unknown

28. “A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.” – Edgar J. Mohn

29. “When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.” – Khaled Hosseini

30. “One lie is enough to question all truth.” – Unknown

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Lies Quotes the Danger of Deception

31. “It’s better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” – George Washington

32. “Lies are a temporary solution to a permanent problem.” – Unknown

33. “Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.” – Dorothy Allison

34. “Oh, what a tangled web we weave… when first we practice to deceive.” – Walter Scott

35. “I guess sometimes you have to lie to find the truth.” – Scott Westerfeld

36. “The truth is messy. It’s raw and uncomfortable. You can’t blame people for preferring lies.” – Holly Black

37. “A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.” – Mark Twain

38. “Lies are neither bad nor good. Like a fire they can either keep you warm or burn you to death, depending on how they’re used.” – Max Brooks

39. “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.” – Terry Pratchett

40. “Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar, but is a stab at the health of human society.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

41. “False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” – Plato

42. “He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.” – Thomas Jefferson

 43. “With lies you may go ahead in the world, but you can never go back.” –Russian Proverb

44. “We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.” – Tad Williams

Lies Quotes for Forgiveness and Moving On

45. “Trying to make sense of crazy will simply drive you crazy. Let it go.” – Karen Salmansohn

46. “Mean people don’t bother me. Mean people who disguise themselves as nice people bother me a lot.” – Cindy Cummings Johnson

47. “Many people would be very scared if they saw the face of their true character in the mirror.” – Unknown

48. “Forgive and forget. It may not change the past but it gives the future a chance.” – Unknown

49. “Loving words are just a bunch of pretty verbal decorations if they’re not backed up by loving actions.” – Karen Salmansohn

50. “A lie repeated many times doesn’t change the truth.” – Frank Sonenberg

51. “Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” – Anne Lamott

52. “The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest, and the first to forget is the happiest.” – Unknown

53. “Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you lived through it. Honor your path. Trust your journey. Learn, grow, evolve, become.” – Creig Crippen

54. “Forgiveness is not for the weak. Being able to forgive those who have wronged you is a mark of spiritual strength and confidence. When you forgive, you grow, your heart begins to heal, your back straightens up, your eyes clear so that you can see the road ahead. Anger is a spiritual sickness; but when you forgive, you live.” – Wael Abdelgawad

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55. “The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.” – Molly Ringwald

56. “People start to lie more once they start to care less.” – Rain Cooper

57. “There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.” – Carlos Ruiz Zafón

58. “The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.” – Mitch Albom

59. “All people know the same truth. Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it.” – Woody Allen

60. “Lying is just letting people believe what they want to be true.” – Megan Whalen Turner

61. “Lies, especially the ones you want to believe , can be convincing.” – Lisa Whittle

62. “Lies are a thing of the physical world. They can’t exist in the spirit world.” – Nnedi Okorafor

63. “Lies are as dangerous as a sword. They can cut to the bone.” – Dhonielle Clayton

64. “Words can lie. See beyond them”. – Victoria Aveyard

Powerful lies quotes to contemplate on

65. “Because even if the lie is beautiful, the truth is what you face in the end.” ― Lauren DeStefano

66. “Lies aren’t answers.”
“But they sound so much better than the truth.”
― Alexandra Christo

67. “A lie, sometimes, can be truer than the truth, which is why fiction gets written.” ― Tim O’Brien

68. “I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.” ― Daniel Nayeri

69. “People never lie so much as before an election, during a war, or after a hunt.” ― Otto von Bismarck

70. “Given a choice between life and death, choose life. Given a choice between right and wrong, choose what’s right. And given a choice between a terrible truth and a beautiful lie, choose the truth every time.” ― Mira Grant

71. “Sometimes, some lies that spoken with high confidence could be more receptive than facts that spoken with doubt.” ― Toba Beta

72. “It seemed there was no end at all to the lies a person could tell, once she got started.” ― Kim Edwards

73. “Isn’t strength the ability to renounce every lie in your heart?” ― Bisco Hatori

74. “If what he said was the truth, it broke her heart. If what he said was a lie, it was broken anyway.” ― Christine Feehan

75. “Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms – if you don’t know how to do it properly, it’s best not to try.” ― Tom Holt

Lies Quotes to Change Your Perspective

76. “Big lies destroy trust and are almost never forgotten or forgiven.” — Carol Kinsey

77. “We say that lying is routine and yet we are surprised when someone lies to our face.” — Melvyn Fein

78. “Each lie is as a chain wrapped around the soul, binding and choking the very life within.” — Jill.M Tomlinson

79. “The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies.” — Thomas Jefferson

80. “Lies therefore appear to be an essential, if sometimes unwelcome, component of human interaction.” — Pamela Mye

81. “Low self-esteem arises when we listen to lies about ourselves.” — Richard Daly

82. “Procrastinators will use lies to explain their delays or failures.” — John Tracy

83. “Most of all we lie because our sense of safety and self-esteem depends on our feeling in control.” — Susan M. Campbell

84. “Lying affects the kind of choices you make on daily basis as a result affects your happiness as a whole.” — Debbie David’s

85. “Escape from the trap of lies is in learning, and improving through constant practice (just like learning to play golf or tennis), the ability to tell the truth.” — Brad Blanton

Which of these lies quotes resonated with you best?

Living with the toxicity of a lie is one of the most harmful things you can do, whether you’re the liar or the person who was lied to.

The lies quotes above bring out the value of the truth, and the feeling of betrayal.

For a valuable relationship, the truth is more important than it’s ever been, and lies are all the more dangerous.

How can we move forward from a lie?

Many people feel that once they’ve been lied to, they can no longer trust the person, and the truth is, you don’t have to.

But for your own heart, forgive, you will feel lighter for it.

What did you learn from these lies quotes and sayings?

Do you have any other helpful quotes to add?

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