Top 100 The Truth Hurt Quotes
#1. Without trust, we didn't have a shot. As much as I knew it, it didn't make the truth hurt any less.
Cindi Madsen
#3. She had to be honest. And this was where the truth hurt. She wanted to see Jack Force again. But it was agony
Melissa De La Cruz
#4. 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
#5. Sometimes the truth will hurt and a lie will set you free; just as a lie will hurt and the truth will set you free.
Anthony Liccione
#6. Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".
Mitch Albom
#8. Goddamn it; speak your mind whether the truth will hurt, feel deeply regardless of the pain you fear, do accordingly in seek of your dreams whilst including the uphill struggles ... Life isn't a a fairytale but it is if you make it one.
Nikki Rowe
#9. The interior of the arms dealer's private jet was so ugly it hurt my feelings as well as my eyeballs.
Terry Hayes
#10. He saw clearly the truth other men didn't. If you gave anyone the power to hurt you, soon enough, they were going to use it.
Jessica Bird
#11. But what's real? You can't find the truth. You just pick the lie you like best. As long as you know that everything's a lie, you can't hurt yourself.
Marilyn Manson
#12. The denial of truth does not harm the Truth; it only harms that which denies the Truth.
Criss Jami
#13. The problem isn't that they all speak bad about me. The problem is that they all feel comfortable speaking bad about me to you.
Monika Ramzy
#14. I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.
Orson Scott Card
#15. Truth is, I don't know what Deacon wants anymore - it's not just physical. Whatever it is must scare him, though, and I'm the one who ends up getting hurt. So I make the concerted effort to resist his temptation, even if sometimes I'd like nothing more than to surround myself with his affection.
Suzanne Young
#16. But heaven seems a place where truth cannot hurt. Here, the truth can be devastating.
Susan Meissner
#17. Memories did one no good, not when one knew the truth in the present. Will was beautiful, but he was not hers; he was anybody's. Something in him was broken, and trough that break spilled a blind cruelty, a need to hurt and to push away.
Cassandra Clare
#18. Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.
Gunter Grass
#19. You can plan on a change in the weather and time, but I never planned on you changing you mind.
Taylor Swift
#20. The person you hurt the most in this world was the person that brought you into it.
Vannary Rang
#21. Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.
Samuel Johnson
#23. He is a good man - despite it all, he is a good man. A sacrificing man. In truth, all of his actions - all of the deaths, destructions, and pains that he has caused - have hurt him deeply. All of these things were, in truth, a kind of sacrifice for him.
Brandon Sanderson
#24. Seek the counsel of men who will tell you the truth about yourself, even if it hurts you to hear it. Mere commendation will not bring the improvement you need.
Napoleon Hill
#25. Sometimes, you can hurt another person by being true to yourself, but in the longterm you are doing both of you a favour. You can also hurt them by just being a selfish bitch and there is no excuse for that. Sometimes it is quite difficult to tell the two situations apart.
Kate Kerrigan
#26. The truth is ... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
Countee Cullen
#27. When you're talking about truth and love, you can wield your profession, your craft, in a way that hurts people because you're so good, and so when someone can present it in a way that is inviting people into their joy, that's when the most beautiful things are formed.
Josh Garrels
#28. No more risking the hurt that came from contact with others.
Lauren Groff
#29. And he feels hurt when he hears about wars,
And commerce, and the ships leaving
Their smoke on the high seas.
Because he knows all of this lacks the truth
A flower has in its blooming
And which moves with the sunlight
Changing the hills and valleys
Alberto Caeiro
#30. Good. He smiled. The truth is supposed to hurt!
R.A. Mathis
#31. The truth may hurt, but lies-they're vicious. They hide coiled up inside you, ready to strike without warning, without your even knowing they're there. Until it's too late.
Katie Dale
#32. The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it.
Brad Stine
#34. Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.
Moira Fowley-Doyle
#35. Truth doesn't have to be liked. It only has to be spoken. Speak it out. The truth may hurt you, but it will set you free.
Amish Tripathi
#36. And so now, under a Colorado sky so blue it hurt my eyes, we arrived at the terrible truth. You can plot your escape, you can ditch your life and your family, and you can race down a two-lane highway in a stolen car. But there are things you can never out run
James Patterson
#37. The truth may hurt, but it is never so agonizing as the dagger of lies we tell ourselves.
Wayne Thomas Batson
#38. The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.
Bob Marley
#39. Don't even know why, but I got to that part, and I...God, it hit me, you know? The truth of those damn words the Skin Horse spoke. Being real could hurt. That's what...what living is all about and the opposite is unimaginable.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#40. Truth will always reassert itself, given a symbolic three days. Three days represents the time it takes between the crucifixion and the resurrection, between an open-hearted response to hurt and the experience of rebirth that will always follow.
Marianne Williamson
#41. Why are you being so mean?" "Friends tell friends the truth." "yeah, but not to hurt, to help.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#42. Remember who you really are. You cannot be destroyed or hurt. You cannot be harmed or killed. You, the real you, will always be present and powerful.
Vironika Tugaleva
#43. When people hurt it is because they feel they are going to lose something. The questions to ask is: What?
Shannon L. Alder
#44. We enslave in the manner we talk to ourselves. But the truth is, God already set us free. He secured our release. To constantly hurt ourselves, resting in our inadequacy, is to call Him a LIAR.
Mary E. DeMuth
#45. The truth hurts, but those lies heal.
Drake
#46. The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.
John Green
#47. The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt.
Lupe Fiasco
#48. I don't tell her that my grasp on truth, on words, on people, has slipped. I was getting close, so close to normal again, and that's been snatched away. I'm not even back where I started. I'm somewhere else entirely, so far off the map I don't know where to turn next.
Daisy Whitney
#49. That's not true. I love you more than my life, Pigeon," he said, hurt.
"That's exactly what I mean. That's crazy talk."
"It's not crazy. It's the truth.
Jamie McGuire
#50. Let's just say it and be done with it. Racing hurts. But here's another truth: having put in the effort to prepare for a race and then not giving it your all hurts even more. The first kind of hurt goes away in hours or a day. The second kind of hurt can last a lifetime.
Lawrence Shapiro
#51. 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
#52. Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.
Swami Vivekananda
#53. I think it's almost immoral to keep on with a marriage that's really bad. It just gets more and more rotten and vindictive and everybody gets more and more hurt. There's not enough honesty about marriage, I think. I wish more people would face the truth about their marital situations.
Johnny Carson
#55. Inevitability is a comfortable escape for people who don't care for the pain that comes with truth. They convince themselves that they had no hand or say in the matter, that whatever happened could not be stopped no matter what they personally did, and so blame can never be placed upon them.
T.A. Miles
#56. She isn't acting hurt, she is acting angry," Jared said, feeling frustrated himself.
"I know, Jared, I know. Right now, she has a distorted view of herself and the world. The only way to effectively combat a lie is with the truth.
Sarah Holman
#57. You can never really know the truth. Not about life, not about God, not about what's in another person's heart, or even your own. All you can ever really know is what it feels like. What it feels like to laugh and cry and hate and hurt and hope and fear and love; what it feels like to live.
James Ryan Daley
#58. If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I think the truth , which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence and self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.
Marcus Aurelius
#59. Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curse of a god is an evil thing.
But I can hurt him. And I will.
And besides ...
Have you never wondered, little bird, what it must be like to see the world through the eyes of a god?
Neil Gaiman
#61. Of course, no government official will ever tell you that the cities may be making the people in them ill.
Steven Magee
#62. Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial.
Joe Budden
#63. The main focus in my life now is to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.
John Templeton
#64. There didn't seem to be that much to say. If you loved Phoebe now, it was going to hurt you to see her. Like facing cold water, you just jumped in and swam anyway.
Tim Farrington
#65. It is good to be hurt once in a while..
Means emotions are still alive.. Means you can still love ,give, receive..
Just don't take the hurt too far..!!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#66. Never pretend to be who you are not. It doesn't take long before the truth gets revealed and you'll be left hurt with the results.
Kemi Sogunle
#67. Falling in love is like holding a candle. Initially it lightens up the world around you. Then it starts melting and hurt you. Finally it goes off and everything is darker than ever and all you are left with is the.. BURN!
Syed Arshad
#68. The solid truth of the matter is, when you find
if you want to help heal the hurt
if you want to hurt [sic] people and help people in pain, the best way to do so is to call upon the great strength of the country, which is the compassion of our fellow Americans.
George W. Bush
#69. When two persons are together, two of them must not whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him
Anonymous
#70. Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie.
Rihanna
#71. Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful.
James Turner
#72. The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose ...
Samuel Ibn Naghrillah
#73. I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.
Eric Ambler
#74. What you see will hurt you; what you don't see will hurt you.
Anthony Liccione
#75. Cynicism is when a small mind and a hurt heart rejects the hope, love, and truth of a big and caring God.
Jayce O'Neal
#76. As CNN saw our growth in African-American viewership, they affirmed a fundamental truth of news coverage - people will watch you if they see themselves in what you report. It doesn't hurt if the people doing the reporting look like them, too.
Soledad O'Brien
#77. A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.
Joe Biden
#78. Hiding your hurt only intensifies it. Problems grow in the dark and become bigger and bigger, but when exposed to the light of truth, they shrink. You are only as sick as your secrets. So take off your mask, stop pretending you're perfect, and walk into freedom.
Rick Warren
#79. The knife will only hurt for a moment. Then your choice will be made, and it will all be over.
Veronica Roth
#80. We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.
Andy Stanley
#81. Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.
Leslie Nielsen
#82. I don't think you understand what levels or what fears until you have a child of your own. I mean, I've never loved someone so much and I've never been so afraid in my life. And the truth is I would kill someone, whoever tried to hurt him. I would. I have no doubt about it.
Maria Bello
#83. Dare to contend without being contentious. Preserve the truth without hurting people. Love and be charitable.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#84. Part of growing up was learning not to be quite that honest - learning when it was better to lie, rather than to hurt someone with the truth.
Jodi Picoult
#85. Remember, the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever.
Gena Showalter
#86. I don't know" means "NO!"
"I don't know" means "I'm too cowardly to tell you the truth because I can't deal with confrontation."
"I don't know" means please do the dirty work for me because I don't want to hurt your feelings even more then I already have.
Greg Behrendt
#87. I'm sorry Elena. I know that you want to help, but put yourself in her shoes, everything that happened tonight was to save you and that's OK because she loves you so much. But somehow she's always the one who gets hurt.
L.J.Smith
#88. The truth feels like it hurts, yet actually it builds. A lie feels like it builds, yet actually it hurts.
Moffat Machingura
#89. The lesson of my childhood was that if you anticipate misfortune, you make it hurt less. It's a fool's truth, but what truth isn
Vu Tran
#90. When we hurt for somebody, it's almost always related to our own emotions, with nothing to do with the other person. Sounds selfish, but it's true; and life is less complicated when we give in to the truth.
Vanessa Garden
#91. I don't want to hurt her, don't want her to suffer. But the truth may hurt her more. I wrap my arms, my wings, around her as her body shutters.
Christine Fonseca
#92. Bad theology dishonors God and hurts people. Churches that sever the root of truth may flourish for a season, but they will wither eventually or turn into something besides a Christian church.
John Piper
#93. The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.
Chuck Palahniuk
#94. Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you
Doc Rivers
#96. the truth may hurt initially, but it heals much better than the rigid scar caused by a lie!
Candice Dow
#97. I was living a life of a lie. And I was doing a lot of things, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly.
Tiger Woods
#98. Don't be afraid to tell the truth. It's better to hurt someone by truth than to make them happy by lies.
Khaled Hosseini
#99. The truth is that in this country you here you're more likely to be harassed, hurt, or killed if you're a minister speaking about progress for Black people than if you are a sure enough revolutionary.
Gil Scott-Heron
#100. The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.
Mira Grant
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