Cliff Burton Quotes

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

White lies always introduce others of a darker complexion.

Pain forces even the innocent to lie.

If I was to say I had a life, that would be a lie.

To have lied is to have suffered.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

A lie cannot live.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

Too many people looked to me in the eye and did not tell me the truth.

If you're lying, you're lying.

We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.

The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.