Famous Quotes & Sayings

Holly Black

He’s quiet then. We lie next to each other, twin corpses waiting for burial.

Holly Black

Lie until even you believe it - that's the real secret of lying

Holly Black

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

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

Hermann Broch

While love ceaselessly strives toward that which lies at the hiddenmost center, hatred only perceives the topmost surface . . .

Hermann Hesse

All interpretation, all psychology, all attempts to make things comprehensible, require the medium of theories, mythologies, and lies.

Hermann Hesse

You have no doubt guessed long since that the conquest of time and the escape from reality, or however else it may be that you choose to describe your longing, means simply the wish to be relieved of your so-called personality. That is the prison where you lie.

Hermann Hesse

It was all a lie, it all stank, stank of lies, it all gave the illusion of meaning and happiness and beauty, and all of it was just putrefaction that no one would admit to. Bitter was the taste of the world. Life was a torment.

Henry Timrod

Sleep sweetly in your humble graves,Sleep, martyrs of a fallen cause;Though yet no marble column cravesThe pilgrim here to pause.Stoop, angels, hither from the skies!There is no holier spot of groundThan where defeated valor lies,By mourning beauty crowned!

Henry Timrod

And down the dunes a thousand guns lie crouched,Unseen, beside the flood -Like tigers in some Orient jungle crouchedThat wait and watch for blood.Meanwhile, through streets still echoing with trade,Walk grave and thoughtful men,Whose hands may one day wield the patriot's bladeAs lightly as the pen.

Henry Timrod

There is no holier spot of ground than where defeated valor lies by mourning beauty crowned

Henry Vaughan

Dear, beauteous death, the jewel of the just! Shining nowhere but in the dark; What mysteries do lie beyond thy dust, Could man outlook that mark!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

Henrietta Szold

To the rest of us the supreme vindication of the scholar's view lies in their invincible allegiance to the Jewish heritage - a steadfastness that has been matched only by that of their rescuers.

Henrik Ibsen

If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.

Henrik Ibsen

What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.

Henrik Ibsen

I am in revolt against the age-old lie that the majority is always right.

Henrik Ibsen

I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.

Henrik Ibsen

Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'

Henrik Ibsen

The costliness of keeping friends does not lie in what one does for them, but in what one, out of consideration for them, refrains from doing.

Henrik Ibsen

It is no use lying to one's self.

Henrik Ibsen

Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness.

Henri Nouwen

Our greatest fulfillment lies in giving ourselves to others.

Heinrich Himmler

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the battle field and person by person, and made to bleed to death .

Hirohito

To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by our imperial ancestors and which lies close to our heart,

Herodotus

Where even a falsehood must be told, let it be told.

Henry Ford

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Helen McCrory

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.