A Bitter Truth Quotes

#1. Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that.

George R R Martin

#2. It's a bitter truth but we humans are the only creature in this universe who not only fed up with things but also by other human beings.

M.H. Rakib

#3. I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message, but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.

Paul Nash

#4. Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie.

C.L. Wilson

#5. If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture.

Maxim Gorky

#6. There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Chanakya

#7. A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

Tacitus

#8. But for fear of disheartening them, we also spoke to them of disappointments and the bitter taste that rest has after a useless action. And seeing the eldest of them lost in a reverie that pained us, we added that perhaps the only truth is the peace to be found in books ...

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. Some bitter boys reading this might accuse me of "friend-zoning," but I'd like to say that even if a girl has misinterpreted a situation that someone else thinks was obvious, she does not owe her male friends anything.

Anna Kendrick

#10. So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.

Tracy Chapman

#11. After accepting the bitter truth of society, I set myself out to lead a life for myself entirely. I realized that the poisonous tentacles of society does not spare anyone, especially people like us. Once I realized that, I became strong from within.

Santosh Avvannavar

#12. A beautiful tale is pleasantly interesting, but a tale re-told is not only sweeter but lacks the bitter truth.

Uzoma Nnadi

#13. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

Denis Diderot

#14. Truth, however bitter, can be accepted, and woven into a design for living.

Agatha Christie

#15. According to convention there is a sweet and a bitter, a hot and a cold, and according to convention, there is an order. In truth, there are atoms and a void.

Democritus

#16. You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth ,
OR
by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie

Er.teji

#17. The truth is always a disappointment, which is why everybody lies.

Frederic Beigbeder

#18. I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#19. Captain Lone Wolf Gonzaullas was one of a kind. I'm sure he would agree to this truth, If you continuously compete with others, you will become bitter. If you constantly compete with yourself, you can become great.

Jack White

#20. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#21. I'd always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth.

Alma Katsu

#22. A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.

Toba Beta

#23. Your friendship is quite valuable to me because I know you are not on my side.
Rather you are a free, evolving spirit, allied with other like minds.
Enemy to arrogance and loyal to the bitter truth.

Anonymous

#24. I tell you the truth, so many people failed to do what they could have done because of the bitter things that happened in the past.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

Jodi Picoult

#26. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.

Patrick Rothfuss

#27. Truth, they say, is a cold and bitter draught; few drink it undiluted.

Stephen R. Lawhead

#28. The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives - altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter.

Richard J. Foster

#29. Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

Bill Hicks

#30. Though she appeared confected of sugar and air, there was a bitter black walnut at her core.

Lauren Groff

#31. But even though Ruth's only a hair thinner than I am, she's way on the other side of the fat girl spectrum, looking at me from the safe, slightly smug distance of her own control and conviction.

Mona Awad

#32. Sometimes love is nothing more than a sticky web; illusions spun from clever minds and bitter hearts.

Nicole Lyons

#33. When love is sweet, the sweetness means its light
And light may keep the truth, when love is pure.
But love is bitter, when it turns to fight.
Lovers in a fight are quite immature.'
From the poem 'A Note on Existentialist Love

Marieta Maglas