Quotes About Ugly Truths

#1. Back when I had fresh, unwounded eyes. Before I realized the selfishness and deceit that we, as adults, hold. The ugly truths of life that pull apart love and make our relationships obligation-centers that carry us from year to year, transition to transition.

Alessandra Torre

#2. I had become conscious of my physicality, aware of my presence and open to the ugly truths of the world. At the age of thirteen, I realised that there was a danger in innocence and beauty, and I could not live with both.

Tracey Emin

#3. The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.

Fred Barnes

#4. Ugly truths are the biggest source of indigestion in humans.

Raheel Farooq

#5. Perfection doesn't exist," I reply. "It's a mask people wear to conceal their ugly truths. Never trust someone who only ever smiles at you.

J.M. Darhower

#6. But romantic vision can also lead one away from certain very hard, ugly truths about life that are important to know.

Donna Tartt

#7. And truths, these days, are spoken
The same way promises are made,
With gritted teeth and crossed fingers.

Sanhita Baruah

#8. But the purpose of stories was to take the ugly, terrifying truths with which one must live and turn them into brave and beautiful ideas one might love.

Mercedes Lackey

#9. On stage, you've got dialogue you've learned. You've got a paying audience. It couldn't be better, you know?

Guy Pearce

#10. How the hell are you supposed to survive, when the part of you that you need to live is walking around outside your body?

Aurora Rose Reynolds

#11. You have a head and a heart? Reveal only one of them, I say; If you reveal both at once, doubly they'll damn you, for both.

Friedrich Holderlin

#12. Brent never trusted anyone who couldn't look him in the eye. It was a sign of dishonesty.

Kenneth Eade

#13. , I realized how ugly it was to eat and cry and sing at the same time.

Kimberly James

#14. When gettin' off wasn't worth puttin' up with her, I ended it

Kristen Ashley

#15. A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.

Anthony Liccione

#16. I haven't read the 'Twilight' books. But it's everywhere so I feel like I know it. Edward, Bella, Jacob, etc. but ... I haven't read them.

Max Irons

#17. The more you know, the less you understand.
That's so cliche'. Wanna know the scary version?
The more you know, the more fuckups you find.
That's what really makes you even less understand.

Toba Beta

#18. The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.

Anonymous

#19. Growing old is an unwinnable campaign. During this war we witness ugly scenes. Truths mutate to whims. Faith becomes cynical transactions between liars. Sacrifices turn out to be needless excesses. Heroes become old farts, and young farts become heroes. Ethics become logos on sports clothing.

David Mitchell

#20. It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#21. Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm

Munia Khan