Top 52 Cruel Truth Quotes
#1. Fear your admirers! Learn in time to hear, understand, and love the cruel truth about yourselves!
Constantin Stanislavski
#2. I'm absolutely sure that the cruel truth without love is a lie.
Nikita Mikhalkov
#3. Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Edward Abbey
#4. This morning could have been perfect. The cruel truth is they have never been. Give us loneliness or give us death.
Sean Gabler
#5. Young actors, fear your admirers! Learn in time, from your first steps, to hear, understand and love the cruel truth about yourselves. Find out who can tell you that truth and talk of your art only with those who can tell you the truth.
Constantin Stanislavski
#6. I think the mistake lots of people make when it comes to a psychopath is that they completely write off their actions as cruel, callous and completely calculated, but actually, the truth is that they have interests and reasons behind their actions.
James Norton
#7. Writing brings scant relief. It retraces, it delimits. It lends a touch of coherence, the idea of a kind of realism. One stumbles around in a cruel fog, but there is the odd pointer. Chaos is no more than a few feet away. A meagre victory, in truth.
Michel Houellebecq
#8. The truth is cruel, but it can be loved, and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
#9. Any understanding of God that doesn't take into account God's silence is a half truth - in effect, a cruel distortion - and leaves us vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by leaders who are quite willing to fill in the biblical blanks with what the Holy Spirit never tells us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#10. Satre found atheism 'cruel', Camus 'dreadful', and Nietzsche 'maddening'. Atheists who consistently try to live without God tend to commit suicide or go insane. Those who are inconsistent live on the ethical or aesthetic shadow of Christian truth while they deny the reality that made the shadow.
Norman Geisler
#11. When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest.
Shannon L. Alder
#12. Little blossom trapped in between, wearing malice like a queen;
hide the truth, be cruel and tart,
still all the more, you rule my heart.
A.G. Howard
#13. I've heard of many people who claim they'd as soon their children were dead as gay. What it took me a long time to believe is that these people are saying no more than the truth. They even speak for others too delicate to use the cruel words.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
#14. It's more cruel to give someone false hope than telling the bitter truth
Unknown
#15. A new truth; that a woman can be just as cruel and dehumanized as a man, and that all safety is an illusion.
Morrissey
#16. [Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#17. Silent lies are more venomous than cruel truths
Ben Oliveira
#18. For all the sublimity of the cause for which we fought, we surely created a Belsen of our own. The method was impersonal, but the result was equally cruel and heartless. That, I am afraid, is a sickening truth.
Kurt Vonnegut
#19. In my head this cruel unspeakable truth: that we battled and we cursed and we spilled each other's blood, we relished our taste of hell and strangled heaven's love.
Aberjhani
#20. The daring venture, the prolonged distrust, the cruel Nay, the tedium, the cutting-into-the-quick - how seldom do THESE come together! Out of such seed, however - is truth produced!
Friedrich Nietzsche
#21. Behind everyday reality, there is a deeper reality so cruel that it condemns to death those who crime is no greater than the pursuit of their own curiosity.
("Shem-El-Nessim: An Inspiration In Perfume")
Chris Bell
#22. So agressive, so much screaming, so cruel picture... But that's the truth, better the truth than the lie after a lie and a lie...
Deyth Banger
#24. We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.
Marcel Proust
#25. To be young is to be powerless, but to have delusions of power. To believe that one can really change things, make the world better and simpler in good and simple ways. To grow old is to realize that nobody is ever good, nothing is ever simple. That truth is cruel at first, but finally comforting.
Frances Hardinge
#26. It's a cruel fact of war that it takes little more than applying pressure to one finger to end another person's life. More than that, it's a cruel fact of life that we are hardwired to follow the crowd in a moment of panic.
Trevor D. Richardson
#27. ...the assertion that you live in a lie while I live in the truth is the most cruel thing one person can say to another...
Leo Tolstoy
#28. Truth can be cruel. Yet it is the only thing of value.
Pierce Brown
#29. We know truth for the cruel instrument it is. Beauty is infinitely preferable to truth.
George R R Martin
#30. Anything that smiles often needs to be reminded that the world is a cruel, dark place.
Matthew Inman
#32. Because there could not be peace, not while two tribes shared one land. One tribe must win. Even the nailed god cannot change that truth. And I was a warrior, and in a world at war the warrior must be cruel.
Bernard Cornwell
#33. Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#34. Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
H.L. Mencken
#35. Religion is a drug, and to take drugs is degrading,' he said. 'You must learn to look life in the face. Throw away your cowardly drugs, and see the truth, the ugly, cruel, ungodly truth, as it really is.
Anna Kavan
#36. I'll never speak to another person without telling the truth. I've been a cruel man in my time, I've been a devious man in my time, like everybody else. I've told lies in my time. But I've seen enough suffering to experiment with the truth.
Jack Kirby
#37. Life could be cruel enough these days without the truth making it worse.
Kate Morton
#39. Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.
Darren Shan
#40. When More had said that a man who cannot restrain his passions is essentially cruel, he spoke the truth.
Jean Plaidy
#41. There comes a moment in life when one must acknowledge that you just can't keep looking back into your past for reasons to keep someone in your present and future. Regardless of how much looking that cruel reality in the eye hurts ... memories can't be enough.
Eiry Nieves
#42. Out with it, Dunciad: let the secret pass -
That secret to each fool - that he's an ass.
The truth once told (and whereby should we lie?),
The queen of Midas slept, and so may I.
You think this cruel? Take it for a rule,
No creature smarts so little as a fool.
Alexander Pope
#43. The assertion that you are in falsehood and I am in truth ist the most cruel thing one man can say to another
Leo Tolstoy
#44. I would rather be kind and lose everything than cruel and gain many things.
Debasish Mridha
#45. The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.
Laura Kreitzer
#46. It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
Anatole France
#47. For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.
Noel Coward
#48. Cruel', O'Kelly laughed, 'it's cruel to tell children the truth. If anything convinces me of God's mercy, then it's his gift of making us unable to lie.
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#49. We can say what we need to say. We can gently, but assertively, speak our mind. We do not need to be judgmental, tactless, blaming or cruel when we speak our truths
Melody Beattie
#50. In truth, if I admitted to the world that I believe God made me as I am, the church would excommunicate me, but I know this to be true. I am not an evil man - nor greedy, nor cruel to those in need. Yet the law would have me hang for love, the purest of human emotions.
H.C. Brown
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