Top 54 Truth Is Painful Quotes
#1. Someone once said to me, 'Some of us choose to live with a lifeboat just a little bit out of our reach.' I'd like to reach a point where I no longer bullshit myself. I think that's the natural human condition - to lie to yourself. Because the truth is painful.
Dustin Hoffman
#3. Memories are painful and beautiful; wisdom is wonderful. When I am living in the present moment, I use wisdom and enjoy the memories of the past.
Debasish Mridha
#4. Let me know what I am able and trust that behind all events no matter how painful there is a reason from which truth can come.
Caroline Myss
#5. I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant.
Albert Einstein
#7. The soul is torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
Augustine Of Hippo
#8. There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.
John Ruskin
#9. It is painful those feelings of pain,
but accept it with love to see the gain.
Debasish Mridha
#10. If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.
Criss Jami
#11. Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.
Paula Danziger
#12. This book bore the label R>3214 VIII/2. And this painful truth was suddenly borne in upon the mind of Monsieur Sariette: to wit, that the most scientific system of numbering will not help to find a book if the book is no longer in its place.
Anatole France
#13. Truth is dangerous. Its so painful and unnecessary. But if you find the courage to face it - it will turn your world upside down and make you a better man.
M.K. Tasker
M.K. Tasker
#14. It's not that I had more important things to do or that I didn't want to help with whatever problems were interfering with her students being successful - rather, it's this horrible truth that life has taught me: misplaced hope is the most devastatingly painful thing you can give someone.
Tucker Elliot
#15. Truth is a painful reminder among the lies
Tahereh Mafi
#16. Coachable people seek out those who speak truth to them, even if it is a painful truth, because it protects them and it makes them a better person and leader.
Gary Rohrmayer
#17. When a memory dies, the truth takes its place. Losing a memory is more painful than losing an arm. Because memories cannot be amputated. In familiarity, we find a sense of security. When this security leaves, the unfamiliar remains.
P. Wish
#19. Sometimes being real means allowing pain or accepting a painful truth. Yet something in us aligns with an inner ground of authenticity when we are real. We love it because of its inherent rightness in our soul, the sense of "Aha, here I am and there is nothing to do but be.
A.H. Almaas
#20. The moment I do any puppy dog acting, I think the joke is dead. It's in the truth of how I play it, and the real painful honesty that I approach my performance with.
Jason Gann
#21. Real is better, The truth is better. Painful but better.
Cath Crowley
#22. The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.
Laura Anne Gilman
#23. And beneath the chaos of the moment, Denise becomes aware of a painful truth about herself: she is never as deeply in love with a man as she is in the moment he leaves her.
Jonathan Tropper
#24. For some the truth is too painful to hear. For others, it's a healing balm. This is why I write - to heal.
Kathleen M. Rodgers
#25. It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher
#26. Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts.
Patrick Henry
#27. Truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths
Haruki Murakami
#28. The first truth, Buddha taught his disciples, is that suffering is part of the human condition. If we simply try to avoid confronting painful experiences, there is no way to begin the healing process. In fact, this denial creates the very conditions that promote and prolong unnecessary suffering.
Peter A. Levine
#29. The truth is ugly and painful. It's uncomfortable. It makes you question things. It creates uncertainty. People don't want that. They want to hear a version of the truth that meets the expectations they've already conjured up in their own head.
Allie Everhart
#30. Most people are not looking for provable truths. As you said, truth is often accompanied by intense pain, and almost no one is looking for painful truths. What people need is beautiful, comforting stories that make them feel as if their lives have some meaning. Which is where religion comes from.
Haruki Murakami
#31. Pain is painful but an essential ingredient of life. Suffering is optional.
Debasish Mridha
#32. At a time when the joy of living is more painful than imagining the beauty of eternal life, we leave our life behind.
Debasish Mridha
#33. When it touches your soul, truth is like fire," he began. "As you know, when we rest too close to the fire we quickly become uncomfortable. Too close and it even becomes painful. But that doesn't always mean we should try to elude its flames.
Serena Chase
#34. Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death.
Leigh Bardugo
#35. Painful truth is ineffable. It swings you around a couple of times until your dizzy, and then punches you hard in the stomach. You don't want to believe it, but it wouldn't hurt so badly if on some level you didn't know it was true.
Tarryn Fisher
#36. It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.
Patrick Henry
#37. I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It's not something that happens overnight. It's an evolution of the heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
#38. I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
Oscar Wilde
#39. Whoever said the truth hurts was being an optimist. The truth is an excruciatingly painful son of a bitch.
Colleen Hoover
#40. No." Kanin's voice was suddenly hard, terrifying. "You are simply using your demon to hide from what you really feel. Because you are afraid of what that means, that it might be painful. It is far easier to be a monster than to confront the truth.
Julie Kagawa
#41. When and how the most painful of situations is going to be resolved and redeemed is no mystery to God. Knowing this truth about God's complete knowledge really does help me accept the unacceptable in my life.
Elizabeth George
#42. Through language, we can tell the truth and hear the truth spoken, just as we can be deceived. Sometimes it's a painful realization: we can be lied to. As I write, I think of myself as putting my eye under oath, so that what I write is the truth about my characters.
Michael Cadnum
#43. The truth," he says, "is a painful reminder of why I prefer to live among the lies.
Tahereh Mafi
#44. To resist a challenge is to resist life itself -Mogwat Of all challenges the greatest is to be yourself. Truth is often painful to speak but soothing to live.
Avi
#45. When part of what you're trying to get at is the truth hidden under a taboo, or when you want to nail a hypocrisy, laughter is a very useful tool. I want to show the painful side of existence, but there is no question I also want to make people laugh.
Todd Solondz
#46. Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Fred Rogers
#47. The painful truth about life is not death but death while you are alive.
Santosh Kalwar
#48. It is better to choose to know the painful truth rather than settle on a comforting lie. Resolve to look for and to accept the truth, no matter how much it hurts. Nothing built on lies lasts.
Rod Dreher
#49. The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.
David Brenner
#50. This morning, you have a choice. You can lay in the dark replaying the awful events of the week, or you can turn the light on and read God's Word-His truth-which is the best thing to do when lies are swarming and painful thoughts are attacking like a bunch of bloodthirsty mosquitoes.
Lysa TerKeurst
#51. My entire life has been one big, fat whopper of a lie, and my parents betrayed me in the worst possible way.
I don't care if they believed they were protecting me.
You don't lie to the people you profess to love, no matter how painful the truth is.
Siobhan Davis
#52. As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
June Jordan
#53. Life is beautiful and this earth is heaven, but your mind is capable enough to create hell for you, on this very earth, if you go on living your life, without understanding.
Roshan Sharma
#54. It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.
Lois Greiman
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