Harsh Truths Quotes

#1. Lies can make harsh truths less painful. But I believe pain is essential for growth.

Morgan Rhodes

#2. Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It's time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It's time to embrace the crude and harsh truths.

That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again

Camilo Garzon

#3. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.

Dianna Hardy

#4. Learn to be good for something.

Brigham Young

#5. The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.

Breyten Breytenbach

#6. I don't like him," I explained. "He annoys the hell out of me ninety-six percent of the time, and sometimes I'd like nothing better than to strangle him to death. But at the same time I ... I want him to be happy. I think about him way more than I should, and I -"
"You love him.

Kody Keplinger

#7. Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated.

Lynn Crilly

#8. Is that your final answer?

Regis Philbin

#9. There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

Socrates

#10. You're the crazy whisperer!

Rachel Caine

#11. E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list.

Steve Crocker

#12. On the far left is Jane Austen, who of course died in 1817 in our inferior universe. In the pocket universe, she lives to ninety-five and writes dozens of bestselling masterpieces and makes a mint and lives happily ever after.

Sydney Padua

#13. It must be said. These truths, no matter how harsh, must be said.

Renee Ahdieh

#14. A writer is a man who has taught his mind to misbehave.

Stephen King

#15. You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Guillermo Del Toro

#16. History is not coherent; moreover, the politics of coherence tend to drive history in the least tolerable directions.

Joshua Clover