Raw Truth Quotes

#1. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners ...

Natalie Goldberg

#2. It's easier to construct a more palatable life story-where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced-than to face the raw truth.

Lysa TerKeurst

#3. The raw truth you profess shows your abode

Sunday Adelaja

#4. It is better to be hurt by the raw truth rather than to be comfortably deceived. - Anonymous

Monica Murphy

#5. Anyone who's seen the Wigan [League] players stripped has been faced with the raw truth of the matter ... No time for male modelling, and even Princess Di would think twice about getting too close to that lot.

Colin Welland

#6. A Godless Mindset Can Be Corrected By Proclamation Of The Raw Truth Of God

Sunday Adelaja

#7. To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion

Sunday Adelaja

#8. Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

John Jay Chapman

#9. Students, like most of us, want answers, even to intractable mysteries. It is hard for anyone to come to terms with the raw truth that sometimes there just are none.

Harvey Cox

#10. Love will kill us all." He said sadly. "First it makes us lie furiously so we can be what me must in order to appear deserving. Then, it tears us apart with raw truth. Whether we are man, exile or angel - It doesn't matter. For us all, the nature of truth is unforgiving.

Jessica Shirvington

#11. We love seeing raw truth and openness in other people, but we're afraid to let them see it in us. We're afraid that our truth isn't enough - that what we have to offer isn't enough without the bells and whistles, without editing, and impressing.

Brene Brown

#12. However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

Wright Morris

#13. What renders a truth meaningful, worthwhile, & c. is its relevance, which in turn requires extraordinary discernment and sensitivity to context, questions of value, and overall point - otherwise we might as well all just be computers downloading raw data to one another.)

David Foster Wallace

#14. You're going to get what I think is the truth, and it's going to be raw.

Joan Rivers

#15. Don't suffocate your spirit for the lessons that were only passing through spring.

Nikki Rowe

#16. I think people get lost in becoming someone other then themselves when they spend too much time in the presence of those who don't bring out the best in them.

Nikki Rowe

#17. I was sitting by myself the other night doing the usual things one does when spending time alone with yourselves. You know, making mountains out of molehills, hiking up to the top of the mountains, having a Hostess Twinkie and then throwing myself off the mountain. Stuff like that.

Carrie Fisher

#18. Raw is a good place for an artist. It's where the truth comes out.

Keith Urban

#19. We say "misogynist"; I've written that "misogyny kills," but the world falls flat on your tongue - it's too academic sounding, not raw or horrifying enough to relay the truth of what it means.

Jessica Valenti

#20. I wasnt looking for anything when I found you & it somehow made me question what I wanted, was i ready for love? I don't think anyone is ever ready, but when someone makes you feel alive again it's kind of worth the risk ...

Nikki Rowe

#21. The cold rationalism simply covers for raw, wounded emotion. The more driven people are by the mind, the more they feel and further encode their feelings. The thickness of the tarpaulin cover is as the size of the emotion.

Dalit Orbach

#22. Human eyes are the sign language of the brain. If you watch them carefully, you can see the truth played out, raw and unguarded.

Tarryn Fisher

#23. It's an intense feeling of human experience when a connection has the kind of power to turn dreams into a reality or crush them almost instantly. Those are the souls you remember decades down the road.

Nikki Rowe

#24. The truth is, cutting raw meat off the bones gives us the creeps.

Megan Carle

#25. I had endless issues with my appearance in Star Wars. Real ones - not ones you bring up so people think you're humble because you secretly find yourself adorable. What I saw in the mirror is not apparently what many teenage boys saw.

Carrie Fisher

#26. Kirk Cameron pulls no punches in his exploration of mankind's greatest dilemma. Unstoppable is a captivating, raw, and candid journey that gracefully delivers hope and poignant truth every step of the way. It's a masterful and timely production!

Ray Comfort

#27. Communicating real, raw, harsh truth to people is always better than communicating a 'pleasant lie' . . .

Alan Roger Currie

#28. I learnt my best lessons from some of the worst people & I look back now and think thank fuck I let you go, I deserved to grow.

Nikki Rowe

#29. He had a voice that was the truth, raw and unfiltered. You can't get any realer, any more tortured or any more alive. No one can do what George Jones does, and that's why 50 years later, he still stands out as one of the greatest singers in any genre of all time.

Kenny Chesney

#30. The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Holly Black

#31. If there's one thing I can say when it's my time to look back over my glorious life is I lived, bravely and fiercly in the chaos of it all.

Nikki Rowe

#32. Maybe we have shoes so we can learn to walk in another's oath before judging their footsteps?

Nikki Rowe

#33. Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering.

Dean Koontz

#34. We can make detours with our mind but we can't distract the truth from our heart.

Nikki Rowe

#35. I didn't lose anyone, for everyone that I lost was never really a loss, unless it was death well then I had to have words with God.

Nikki Rowe

#36. Even a tiny physical network connected by trust held a potent, raw power.

Nalini Singh

#37. Myth: Vampires eat only raw meat or drink blood.
Truth: Why would we do that when there's chocolate in the world?

Kimberly Pauley

#38. All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth.

Aminatta Forna

#39. If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cells that made up their space. The only offering these cells ever entertained was truth, painful and raw.

Amy Guth

#40. Raw, naked truth exchanged between the black man and the white man is what a whole lot more of is needed in this country - to clear the air of the racial mirages, cliches, and lies that this country's very atmosphere has been filled with for four hundred years.

Alex Haley