Top 54 Truth Is Harsh Quotes
#1. The truth is harsh." Anubis said. "Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes ... right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
Rick Riordan
#2. Time is kind
just not kind enough!
Yarro Rai
#3. As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.
Neil Gaiman
#4. The truth was that if the man came with a harsh past and an emptiness in his soul, she was metal to his magnet.
Bella Andre
#5. I offer no apologies to those whom I may have rendered uncomfortable with my open and honest assertions. The truth is often harsh and uncomfortable to embrace.
Casper Odinson Crowell
#6. My thing is, I'm just way too harsh. It's an enormous impediment, and that's just the truth of it. It doesn't make me any better, make me any worse, it certainly isn't more valorous. I have a character defect, man.
Junot Diaz
#7. My mind kept thinking its harsh thinky thoughts, but I would distract myself from them gently and say, 'Those are not the truth, those are not trustworthy, those are for entertainment purposes only.' Eventually I had quieter thoughts.
Anne Lamott
#8. Communicating real, raw, harsh truth to people is always better than communicating a 'pleasant lie' . . .
Alan Roger Currie
#9. How much easier it would have been if he and Sandy could have fought: a skirmish in the night, some harsh words, some measure of the truth actually spoken aloud.
Anthony Doerr
#10. I ask no comfort," Taran replied, "but the truth, be it harsh or happy."
"Ah, my sweet robin," said Orddu, "for the finding of that, nothing is harder. There are those who have spent lifetimes at it, and many in worse plight than yours.
Lloyd Alexander
#11. The harsh truth is, most red-haired men look like blondes who've spoiled from lack of refrigeration. They look like brown-haired men who've been composted out behind the barn. Yet that same pigmentation that on a man can resemble leaf mold or junkyard rust, a woman wears like a tiara of rubies.
Tom Robbins
#12. This technological stagnation reflects a harsh truth. There was very little interest in attempting to save labor when the labor in question was not your own.
Bee Wilson
#13. At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.
I am finally conceding the truth to me.
I am something other than straight.
Dan Pearce
#14. Perfection is a thousand mistakes behind curtains.
Yarro Rai
#15. And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.
Aravind Adiga
#16. Because most people are stupid." Laila's words were harsh and her gaze bitter. "They don't want to see or know the truth. And so they willingly believe all the lies they are told.
Katja Michael
#17. No. Harsh truth was better than comfortable lies. It had to be.
Kelley Armstrong
#18. Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.
Virginia Woolf
#19. the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal.
Karl Taro Greenfeld
#20. There is a huge value placed in our world on doing what everyone else is doing and thinking as everyone else is thinking.
Robin S. Sharma
#22. Having all these lies so that you could feel special. It's time to let go of fantasy and imagined problems. It's time to embrace the crude and harsh truths.
That the existents, the discourses, the frameworks, your words, your meanings, and your definitions, all begin to fade, away, again
Camilo Garzon
#23. Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie.
Robert Breault
#24. The harsh world unjustly reserved its most severe punishments for women.
Rosie Thomas
#25. Children couldn't stomach the truth, adults believed. Children had to be protected from the harsh realities of the world.
Orson Scott Card
#26. Music is another language, one so close to actual thought, strung together, sometimes staccato, flowing, and sometimes even nonsensical or harsh to the ears. It's truth in an otherwise dishonest world.
Moryah DeMott
#27. His eyebrows raised. "And you said demons didn't know love."
Guido's laugh was harsh. "Ahh, but haven't you learned by now, bestia? Demons may not be able to lie, but we never tell the truth.
Heather R. Blair
#28. Sometimes, even pretty simple situations can become tough, when the thing you love the most and the thing you have to sacrifice is the same.
M.H. Rakib
#29. God, I can't lose you again." His whisper was harsh, filled with pain. "Not now, when I've waited so long to hold you. I think it would kill me. But I'm so damn scared you'll hate me when you find out the truth.
Katherine Allred
#30. Don't be sorry for the truth. A harsh truth is less damaging than a tender lie, and the worst lies are the ones we tell ourselves.
Dianna Hardy
#31. In fact cycling has always been 'saved' by judicial investigations and not by the anti-doping controls we put in place. That's the harsh truth. We have relied on them to clean the sport up.
David Millar
#32. I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.
Sheryl Sandberg
#34. For I was not, as I liked to think, the indulgent pleasure-loving opposite of the cold rigid Colonel. I was the lie that Empire tells itself when times are easy, he the truth that Empire tells when harsh winds blow.
J.M. Coetzee
#35. This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
F. Sionil Jose
#37. Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.
Doc Pomus
#38. It occurred to Rosie that she couldn't hide either, even though the truth had been hidden from her. Now she was out from the shadows, out in the open for the first time in her life, standing in the harsh light.
Denny Taylor
#39. I'm sorry. Is that too harsh an observation for you? Does that sound too much like the Truth? Fuck you. If anyone in this shithole city gave two tugs of a dead dog's cock about Truth, this wouldn't be happening.
Warren Ellis
#40. Emotional exhibitionism is one block away from whoring for attention.
Alice Walsh
#41. The truth is too harsh to touch, and I shy away from it before it sears itself into my brain and becomes real.
C.J. Redwine
#42. I am accountable for every lie that I tell, but I am also accountable for the effects of every harsh truth I deliver.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#43. For, once there's a death, one doesn't like to think there's been harsh words spoken and no chance of taking them back.
Agatha Christie
#44. [ ... ] all women want to be objectified.
Alice Walsh
#45. The story of mankind is the nomadic search for many, many truths along harsh roads bordered with flesh and bones and the apparitions of truths long since eaten by birds; it is looking for truths to fill a grumbling stomach, and spitting them out like pebbles when they have lost their flavor.
Breyten Breytenbach
#46. The truth, as much as people acted like they wanted to hear it, was sometimes too cruel and harsh.
Laura Kreitzer
#47. Any one who is much talked of be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depreciate than to appreciate, you will acknowledge that there is some truth in the saying.
Arthur Helps
#48. If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.
Thomas S. Monson
#49. It's easy to dislike the truth for it is ugly and harsh to the naked eye.
Antonio Kowatsch
#50. He thought he would choke to death on it, on the harsh truth he'd been trying to ignore his entire life: that no matter how bad he wanted it or how he hard he tried to get it, he would never be worthy of anyone's love.
Tommy Wallach
#51. If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.
Dave Eggers
#52. There is more beauty in a harsh truth than in a pretty lie, more poetry in earthiness than in all the salons of Paris.
Irving Stone
#54. There was no better way to sell a lie, she knew, than to sprinkle it with truth.
Kaede Lazares
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