#deception

Some people in your life Touch you so very deeply That you drown totally in that depth. ↗

— Amit Abraham

#deceiving #deception #emotional-pain #treasuresure #life

Narcissism and self-deception are survival mechanisms without which many of us might just jump off a bridge. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#jump #just #many #mechanisms #might

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

— Robert Southey

#deception #else #falsehood #indeed #into

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words. ↗

— John Ruskin

#essence #lying #words

Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception. ↗

— Edward V. Lucas

#deception #having #keep #nothing #up

We all grasp on to a single idea of ourselves, the way aging people dye their hair. It’s no matter that this dye doesn’t fool you. My lady, you don’t dye your hair to decieve other people, or to fool yourself, but rather to cheat your image in your mirror a little. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#age

Rise above the deceptions and temptations of the mind. This is your duty. You are born for this only; all other duties are self-created and self-imposed owing to ignorance. ↗

— Sivananda Saraswati

#duty #mind #spirit #temptation #temptation

I am replete with stamina in finding out every single fact I can about this whole affair. Yet, I think, do I want to pull that thread? Do I want to unleash the truth, unravel deceit, and kill reality as I´ve known it? It is irreparable, if I do, from the moment we met until now. It is long. If I discover too much that is false about what I thought my past was, Time will be skewed even further. I already have a poor connection with the present. Example: I have no sense of what day it is. It´s better. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception. ↗

— James Baldwin

#deception

Beware when wrong-doing is called good and right-doing is called evil." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#delusional #good-and-evil #good-vs-evil #r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods