#yin

I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. It's awful. If I'm on my way to the store to buy a magazine, even, and somebody asks me where I'm going, I'm liable to say I'm going to the opera. It's terrible. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#life #lying #life

The worst type of crying wasn't the kind everyone could see--the wailing on street corners, the tearing at clothes. No, the worst kind happened when your soul wept and no matter what you did, there was no way to comfort it. A section withered and became a scar on the part of your soul that survived. For people like me and Echo, our souls contained more scar tissue than life. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#depression #grief #hurt #pain #sadness

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#denying #eye #i #i believe #i believe in

No, you don't know what it's like When nothing feels all right You don't know what it's like To be like me To be hurt To feel lost To be left out in the dark To be kicked when you're down To feel like you've been pushed around To be on the edge of breaking down And no one's there to save you No, you don't know what it's like Welcome to my life ↗

— Simple Plan

#simple-plan #welcome-to-my-life #life

Life is like an onion; you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#life #simile #life

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#bullying #life

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman. ↗

— Abigail Adams

#challenge #genius #heroism #intelligence #trial

As he was gasping for air he realized something. He was in deep shit. Haley was his life now. His woman. His heart. He was so screwed. ↗

— R.L. Mathewson

#playing-for-keeps #rl-mathewson #life

Yes, Samantha, we in the Soviet Union are trying to do everything so that there will not be war on Earth. This is what every Soviet man wants. ↗

— Yuri Andropov

#every #everything #man #soviet #soviet union

On average, women are better liars than men. But the best liars are men, because politicians are still predominantly men.
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— Jarod Kintz

#liars #lie #life #lying #men