Quotes About Brutal Truth

#1. It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Zoe Akins

#2. I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

Julianna Baggott

#3. What Rizzoli thought, staring at her own image, was that she hated Elizabeth Hurley for giving women false hope. The brutal truth was, there are some women who will never be beautiful, and Rizzoli was one of them.

Tess Gerritsen

#4. You want to know what the saddest part is Tess?" I said, sounding choked up.
"What's that Josh?"
I felt my heart constricting as the brutal truth flowed from my lips. "You say she's mine ... but honestly, I don't think she was ever mine to begin with.

Angela Richardson

#5. The most brutal truth
Is the truth unspoken and
Pain is spawned by
a faulty connection.

Matt Ferrara

#6. I never weigh myself, but the brutal truth of television is that they don't employ old people or fat people.

Ruby Wax

#7. Inquiry is human; blind obedience brutal. Truth never loses by the one but often suffers by the other.

William Penn

#8. In war everyone loses. This brutal truth can be seen in the eyes of every solider in every world.

Steven Erikson

#9. As a clinical psychologist, I am regularly confronted with the brutal truth that we are all lie.

Cortney S. Warren

#10. The brutal truth is, we're scarcely 'educating' children at all. Even if you overlook the guilt, fear, bigotry, and dangerous anti-intellectual flapdoodle being funneled into young brains by schools on the religious right, what we're doing is training kids to be cogs in the wheels of commerce.

Tom Robbins

#11. The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

Leonard Ravenhill

#12. She'd crossed into a place where truth, even if it was brutal, was all she had to offer.

Hillary Jordan

#13. I think that the tendency for most people is to fall back on a comic interpretation of things because things are so sad, so terrible. If you didn't laugh you'd kill yourself. But the truth of the matter is that existence in general is very very tragic, very very sad, very brutal and very unhappy.

Woody Allen

#14. Let me strip you piece by piece, exactly how you like it. Let me watch you shine through your brutal revelation.

Dianna Hardy

#15. A truth is what it is. A lie, a thought out deception more brutal than a truth could ever be.

Charlotte Armstrong

#16. You could also hear the other, some young soldier speaking in all bloody innocence, saying, 'All that's just a load, man. We're here to kill gooks. Period.' Which wasn't at all true of me. I was there to watch.

Michael Herr

#17. Jake Roberts has a hard enough time being Jake Roberts. The truth is a brutal thing, I just hope that the kids take the time to learn about each of the wrestlers in the game, and if the kids can learn from our mistakes, that would make me a happy man.

Jake Roberts

#18. We are the directors of our own life, creating our own version of truth, which can be humorous, pleasurable, miserable, brutal, or stupid. Reconciling loss and misfortune can provide a sense of sublimity or catharsis.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#19. It was a brutal picture, a tug-of-war between two equal but opposing impulses. It had the ring of truth, however,

Deborah Harkness

#20. I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.

Sean Bean

#21. Laila Lalami has fashioned an absorbing story of one of the first encounters between Spanish conquistadores and Native Americans, a frightening, brutal, and much-falsified history that here, in her brilliantly imagined fiction, is rewritten to give us something that feels very like the truth.

Salman Rushdie

#22. The truth is that you have to fight your way through brutal, ugly realities in order to find that moment of clarity, that one slant of light or shift in emotion that yields unexpected art. That's just as true for life as it is for crime scene photography.

Maggie Ybarra

#23. Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is brutal. The brutality of ignorance is such that it will make you dead while alive.

Jaggi Vasudev

#24. I wish we could stop the little lies. I don't mean that one has to be brutally frank. I don't believe that we should be brutal about anything, however, it is wonderfully liberating to be honest. One does not have to tell all that one knows, but we should be careful what we say is the truth.

Maya Angelou

#25. Fury ... sexual, Oedipal, political, magical, brutal ... drives us to our finest heights and coarsest depths

Salman Rushdie

#26. Sometimes truth was the most brutal weapon of all. And the greatest gift.

Debora Geary

#27. In books there were limitless worlds, there was truth, sometimes brutal and ugly, and sometimes happy and soothing.

Hector Tobar

#28. He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up.

Casey Renee Kiser

#29. It's impeccable how brutal the truth can be at times. You can only admire it.

Markus Zusak

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

Lauren Groff

#31. There is always a way to be honest without being brutal.

Arthur Dobrin

#32. There is at least one thing more brutal than the truth, and that is the consequence of saying less than the truth.

Ti-Grace Atkinson

#33. This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brought into the fierce light of truth, and truth can be brutal.

Desmond Tutu

#34. The truth brings with it a great measure of absolution, always.

R.D. Laing