Douglas Kennedy Quotes

For us to maintain our way of living, we must tell lies to each other and especially to ourselves. The lies are necessary because, without them, many deplorable acts would become impossibilities.

Man has an inexhuastible faculty for lying, especially to himself.

The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.

The heart lies to itself because it must.

The easiest lies to tell are the ones you want to be true.

If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.

The most common sort of lie is the one uttered to one's self.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness.

I tell myself lies and soon I believe them.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Honesty lies in understanding our close and necessary relationship with not wanting to hear the truth.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

People deny things that are true all the time.

If people tell an untruth long enough and loud enough, they begin to believe it themselves.

A known fact may be so unbearable that it is habitually pushed aside and not allowed to enter into logical processes, or on the other hand it may enter into every calculation and yet never be admitted as a fact, even in one’s own mind.

Trump lies when confronted with the truth, since any crack in his narcissism might spread like an Ebola of the soul, and he would deflate like one of Macy's balloons on the Friday after Thanksgiving.

Intelligent people, caught at anything, denied it. Faced with evidence of having denied it falsely, people said they had not done it and had not lied about it, and didn't remember it, but if they had done it, or lied about it, they would have done it and misspoken themselves about it in an interest so much higher as to alter the nature of doing and lying altogether.

Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.

The worst of all deceptions is self-deception.

Sometimes you don't want the truth. Sometimes you're like, "Oh just tell me the good answer. I don't want the truth."

We seem to prefer a comfortable lie to the uncomfortable truth. We punish those who point out reality, and reward those who provide us with the comfort of illusion. Reality is fearsome .. but experience tells us that more fearsome yet is evading it.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

Belief in the lie is the life of the lie.

It is not only by dint of lying to others, but also of lying to ourselves, that we cease to notice that we are lying.

Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.