Painful Truths Quotes

#1. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.

Haruki Murakami

#2. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

Patrick Ness

#3. Forging fake smiles to hide painful truths doesn't take away the hurt, but sometimes safeguards our emotions from those adamant not to understand.

Aisha Mirza

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

Morgan Rhodes

#5. Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their
fathers. These laws were good.

Chief Joseph

#6. Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Criss Jami

#7. If we cry more tears we will ruin the land with salt; instead let's praise that which would distract us with despair. Make a song for death, a song for yellow teeth and bad breath

Joy Harjo

#8. Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

Gregory David Roberts

#9. We are constantly - in order to cope with painful realities - shuffling through third-rate, half-remembered fantasies taken from movies, from TV, from people we admire. We do this individually, we do it collectively - we tell stories to escape our most painful truths.

Joshua Oppenheimer

#10. They're battle scars of a life lived and tangible evidence of her strength. She made another human being. The weight of that knowledge is heavy.

Eliza Lentzski

#11. Junk?" Lina repeated, incredulous. Oh, she wasn't about to let that pass.

Jaleigh Johnson

#12. Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

Pat Schneider

#13. We are lying to ourselves and to each other.
Lying about what? I don't care if we're lying.
I am a bad person.
I don't care. I don't care what you are.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

Marion Woodman

#15. Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.

Justin Torres

#16. I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer isn't aware of.

Umberto Eco

#17. A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

Carlos Castaneda

#18. My sister, Judy, has always said that she would like to lie in state, propped up in her coffin with her eyes blared wide open, face fixed in a big grin, and have a taped greeting for all her mourners. Something real upbeat and, well, live-sounding, like: 'He-e-e-ey!Cuteshoestellyomamahi!

Jill Conner Browne

#19. To read a novel is to wonder constantly, even at moments when we lose ourselves most deeply in the book: How much of this is fantasy, and how much is real?

Orhan Pamuk

#20. This is among the oldest, deepest, most primal truths: the facts of life may be, at times, unbearably painful. But the core, the bones of life are generous beyond all reason or belief. Those things that ought to kill us do not.

Augusten Burroughs

#21. Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

Amy Poehler

#22. The incessant struggle of the mind to be true to itself, to absorb new truths, to grow, to overcome pressures
these are the painful portion of the independent thinker. Almost his sole reward is the satisfaction of integrity.

Howard Mumford Jones

#23. Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths

Haruki Murakami

#24. We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to ... because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Douglas Kennedy