Anne Lamott Quotes

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying.

I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

It's a weird thing about the truth: It protects you. What really makes you vulnerable is when you're lying because you're going to get caught. When you tell the truth, there's a strange relief that comes.

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.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

We can’t save ourselves from fear by seeking safety, because safety always means there’s something to be safe from-in other words, something to fear. The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.

There is a price to pay for speaking the truth. There is a bigger price for living a lie.

Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.

Only the difference between truth and lies, courage and cowardice.

So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have — and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth — you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear...

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable; the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

No woman is capable of being beautiful who is not incapable of being false.

The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating.

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.

'Truth Will Set U Free' is about honesty. My philosophic belief that ultimately being true to yourself is liberating, with every individual's inalienable right to be who they are without fear or recrimination.

I'm not one of those actors who lies about their age.

I think 20th century media were about tricking people - and the beauty of the Internet is you can't lie anymore.

Just because you have a blog doesn't mean that you should, like, lie for no reason.

I am not convinced the truth can make men free, but I believe it a beginning.

I don't like to tell lies.

I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.