Samuel Beckett Quotes

A lie was something that hadn't happened but might just as well have.

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.

For a moment, the lie becomes truth.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, goes the old saw, but it is never as strange as lies.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.

The camera cannot lie. But it can be an accessory to untruth.

There's a difference between a cheap lie and a beautiful lie.

I think that people believe in lies and they repeat the lies so many times that the people start to believe, 'ah, Demian is not fighting for the title because he doesn't sell.'

This much is true: you have been lied to.

Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

There are people who will say that this whole account is a lie, but a thing isn't necessarily a lie even if it didn't necessarily happen.

You can't really pretend something is rosier than it is and expect people to buy it.

A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies.

Every edit is a lie.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

That which is cannot be true.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt you. You have only to keep still, and it will die of itself.

I realize that nothing's as it seems.

I was provided with additional input that was radically different from the truth. I assisted in furthering that version.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.