Awful Truth Quotes

#1. ...there was no escaping the monsters, not even on this island, no bigger on a map than a grain of sand, protected by mountains of fog and sharp rocks and seething tides. Not anywhere. That was the awful truth...

Ransom Riggs

#2. It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be ...

Bob Dylan

#3. I have come to believe there is nothing in the lives of human beings more terrifying than war and nothing more important than for those of us who have experienced it to share its awful truth.

Ron Kovic

#4. There are times when a satisfying lie is better than the awful truth.

Colleen Helme

#5. Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I ... probably can't!

Hugh Grant

#7. It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Anne Rice

#8. Grace never ignores the awful truth of our depravity; in fact it emphasizes it. The worse we realize we are the greater we realize God's grace.

Randy Alcorn

#9. I raise my glass to the Awful Truth,
Which you can't reveal to the Ears of Youth,
Except to say it isn't worth a dime,
And the whole damn place goes crazy twice,
And it's once for the Devil and once for Christ

Leonard Cohen

#10. The awful truth was that Jim was happy: not in some bland, superficial way - fixed Kodak smiles under the bluest of skies - but in his deepest self. This kind of happiness was less a state, he realised, than a form of honesty: a sense of essential rightness.

Laura Barnett

#11. It would almost be easier to have woken up and found that everything about her life was a lie, instead of just this one awful truth.

Debra Ginsberg

#12. Because of GLHR's crusades ... we're beginning to learn the awful truth about workers around the world who are slaving away their lives in sweatshops, who are denied the right to join or form a union in order to fight back and provide a better life for their families.

John Sweeney

#13. You must think I'm an awful ruler. One of those spoiled, selfish queens who cares more for her own reputation than the welfare of her people.

Marissa Meyer

#14. With all his soul he wanted to sweep her to him and tell her everything was going to be all right. To erase that awful bleakness from her face and with his two strong arms reshape the world for her, to make everything all right. But he had learned long ago the futility of racing from the truth.

Leigh Bristol

#15. I think for the foreseeable future, the truth is going to be awful and funny all at the same time.

John Hodgman

#16. In my mind my obituary is done.It is done and it is right. It tells the truth and as awful as it can be, the truth is what matters. It is what I should be remembered by, if I'm remembered at all. Remember the truth. that is all that matters

James Frey

#17. There is something more than violence that Nasheenians taught me, and that is the awful brutality of speaking absolute truth. I propose that we begin to unmask ourselves. We speak the truth of ourselves. We tell them just how many of us there are.

Kameron Hurley

#18. You were wrong, Gram," I said softly, tone emotionless because I was resigned to the awful, lonely truth of it. "Love doesn't save our souls. It kills them.

R.K. Lilley

#19. This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.

Lysa TerKeurst

#20. When you hate someone you used to love, and you think he's done something awful - he probably has.

E. Lockhart

#21. Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more
it's sad, but that's the truth.

Banana Yoshimoto

#22. There is a kind of sense of truth and reconciliation that is non-formalized, but it's understood and accepted. Haitians are Haitians and there is an inherent loyalty that forgives an awful lot.

Sean Penn

#23. The truth can be very funny in an awful way, especially as it relates to greed and hipocrisy.

Kurt Vonnegut

#24. Truth can be awful and even excruciating, but once it's released, it's like a bird that's been caged too long who finally flies to freedom. I felt a little like that. Free

Ilsa Madden-Mills

#25. I want to tell her that because I want her to be happy. But I also know it's not true. And part of loving someone, part of being the recipient of trust, is telling the truth even when it's awful.

Taylor Jenkins Reid

#26. How awful a knowledge of the truth can be.

Douglas Preston

#27. Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. What was that from? Measure for Measure? But perhaps, truth was asleep until the end of reckoning. There was going to be an awful lot of reckoning when the time came.

Kate Atkinson

#28. You're after perfection,'Matt said.
'Is that so awful?'
'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.

Tim Relf

#29. Glorify a lie, legalize a lie, arm and equip a lie, consecrate a lie with solemn forms and awful penalties, and after all it is nothing but a lie. It rots a land and corrupts a people like any other lie, and by and by the white light of God's truth shines clear through it, and shows it to be a lie.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#30. I think an awful lot of the diplomatic problems that exist in the world come from people assuming that their society is the one with a purchase on truth.

Andrew Solomon

#31. I think there was an awful lot about him that I thought I knew, but the truth was I was just coloring in the missing parts with colors I liked.

Craig Johnson

#32. Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't recall life as it was. Instead, we remember what was different, frightening, or strange, and we turn our lives into the fun-house mirror images of the truth.

Jamie Kain