Bitter Truth Quotes

The poor tell us who we are, the prophets tell us who we could be, so we hide the poor, and kill the prophets. ~ Philip Berrigan

Where have all the feelings gone?
Why is the deadliest sin - to love as I loved you?
Now unblessed, homesick in time,
soon to be freed from care, from human pain.
My tale is the most bitter truth:
Time pays us but with earth & dust, and a dark, silent grave.
Remember, my child: Without innocence the cross is only iron,
hope is only an illusion & Ocean Soul's nothing but a name…

The Child bless thee & keep thee forever ~ Tuomas Holopainen Of "Nightwish"

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it. ~ Avigdor Lieberman

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. ~ St. Jerome

Treachery is worse than blasphemy – the former is often with intention however, the latter can be under influence. ~ Subhralin Thakuria

I've learned of life this bitter truth
Hope not between the crumbling walls Of mankind's gratitude to find repose,
But rather,
Build within thy own soul
Fortresses! ~ Georgia Douglas Johnson

The search for truth takes you where the evidence leads you, even if, at first, you don't want to go there. ~ Bart D. Ehrman

Bitter truth of life. To have some genuine friends, you need to have some fake ones too. ~ Shikha Kaul

But the bitter truth we critics must face is that in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. ~ Ed Catmull

I'm sure it's not as bad as you think." From everything I've seen so far, he's incapable of writing trash.
I pick up the notebook and read his paragraph aloud. "Once upon a tie, a bossy queen tortured a sweet, innocent prince by forcing him to dredge up painful memories from his past. The prince tried to do as he was told, but every word felt like his pen was made of razor blades, and he was slicing the bitter truth straight into his heart. In the end, the prince gave up his excruciating self-evaluation and went and made himself a sandwich. The end."
I lower the notebook. "Really? ~ Leisa Rayven

I'd always secretly believed that a love as fierce and true as mine would be rewarded in the end, and now I was being forced to accept the bitter truth. ~ Alma Katsu

Lot of questions came up during that struggle between life and death. Are such bonds, with a husband and sons, necessary for women? I thought they were not, so I moved away from them. I am living with my art. I give the same advice to my students. I don't make a sand pot often. I make it occasionally so that I don't forget the fragile nature of paativratyam.'
'Does a woman have a world other than her husband's? Is there a higher meaning to a woman's life than motherhood? Your experience may have been different. But to preach everyone on the basis of your experience …'
'A woman thinks she doesn't have a world other than that of her husband's. True. But some day that very husband will tell her that there is no place for her in his world. Then what's left for her? She thinks giving birth to sons is the ultimate goal of her life. But those sons become heirs to their father, and even before we realize it, they leave her hands and go under the wing of their father. They submit to his authority. Or they begin to legislate our lives. Why bear such sons? Nobody will experience this as harshly as I have. Having realized this bitter truth, isn't it my responsibility to share it with other women? But you Brahmins give no value for my words anyway. I teach my skills to people of different tribes in this forest and give them the essence of my experience. ~ Volga

It's a bitter truth but we humans are the only creature in this universe who not only fed up with things but also by other human beings. ~ M.H. Rakib

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth. ~ Chanakya

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. ~ Chanakya

Now in the light of past and present events the bitter truth must be spoken. We feared too little and we hoped too much. We underestimated the bestiality of the enemy; we overestimtaed the humanity, the wisdom, the sense of justice of our friends. ~ Chaim Weizmann

What are we to make of the stubborn bitter truth that one's legitimacy is judged by whether one appears to be 'happy' or 'unhappy'; that one's work is somehow assessed in terms of the spiritual uplift it offers? 'Happiness' is predicated as a cultural norm, so that any deviation from it, however justified, however inescapable, arouses not only pity but reproach. As true as this might be for male writers, it is all the more true for female writers, since there is a violation of some unspoken rule in the very fact that a woman writes - that is, thinks. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

A beautiful tale is pleasantly interesting, but a tale re-told is not only sweeter but lacks the bitter truth. ~ Uzoma Nnadi

There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. ~ Chanakya

She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth. ~ Christina Rossetti

Mama always used to say it's better to choke on a bitter truth than savor a honeycake lie. ~ C.L. Wilson

Stigmata of Love
A light which lives on what the flames devour,
a grey landscape surrounding me with scorch,
a crucifixion by a single wound,
a sky and earth that darken by each hour,
a sob of blood whose red ribbon adorns
a lyre without a pulse, and oils the torch,
a tide which stuns and strands me on the reef,
a scorpion scrambling, stinging in my chest
this is the wreath of love, this bed of thorns
is where I dream of you stealing my rest,
haunting these sunken ribs cargoed with grief.
I sought the peak of prudence, but I found
the hemlock-brimming valley of your heart,
and my own thirst for bitter truth and art. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. ~ Ann Landers

If it is true that only misfortune can awaken a man's soul, it is a bitter truth, one that is hard to hear and accept, and it is only natural that many people deny it and say it is better for a man to live on in a trance than to wake up to torture. ~ Maxim Gorky

The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

With two lovers there is always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved; it is bitter truth to which most of us have to resign ourselves; but now and then there are two who love and two who let themselves be loved. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

One swallows the lie that flatters, but sips the bitter truth drop by drop. ~ Denis Diderot

You can either control yourself by simple two lines of bitter truth ,
OR
by confusing yourself in long stories to comfort with a lie ~ Er.teji

Is it treason to say the truth? A bitter truth, but no less true for that. ~ George R R Martin

Some say "The end is near," as if that is shocking news. The truth is, the end is always near. What is actually shocking is that we, ourselves, can help to choose which end. ~ T.A. Barron

Facts have a tendency to obscure the truth. ~ Amos Oz

In that moment, we were all witness to the dark truth that no matter where you are, how safe you feel, there are sometimes bad people looking for an opportunity to do bad things. And it's not all about winning against them; it's about being brave and not losing against yourself. ~ Watt Key

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free. ~ Andrew Wyeth

We have a tendency to think everyone's idiotic and everyone's only doing something idiotic, and the world is controlled by a not-so-secret group of morons. There's great truth in that, I suppose, but then it's also not true. ~ John Malkovich

It was strange how she found out, One moment she didn't know; the next minute she did. One moment her mind was as blank as the desert; the next minute the snake of suspicion had slithered into her thoughts and raised its poisonous head. ~ Thrity Umrigar

Something distinguishes Christianity from all the religions of the world. Not only does it carry the truth of the redemption, by the death of our Savior for our sins on the cross, but it carries the fact that Christ rose again. ~ Billy Graham

Problems and problems... and problems and the whole truth was told.

(Holiday Engagement 2011 - Movie) ~ Deyth Banger

You cannot run away from the truth because truth will find you. ~ ColoZeus Benz

Can so much really happen in a night? The song was never really over, but now I have the ending - I don't know how I'll phrase it, but it will involve our returning, it will take in the strange pink light and the Sunday-morning quiet. Because this is us, and the song is her, and this time I'm going to use her name. Norah Norah Norah - no rhymes, really. Just truth. ~ David Levithan

Humor plays close to the big hot fire which is Truth, and sometimes the reader feels the heat. ~ E.B. White

It's the oldest
lesson. The first lesson. It's like the first
noble truth of Buddhism - there's going to
be suffering, and that's okay. It's
mandatory. It's included. It doesn't mean
you're broken. It doesn't mean that you're a
victim necessarily - it's just part of it. You're
going to hurt, and you can survive that. ~ Melissa Febos

The most glorious thing about God is that he is so completely, fully self-sufficient that the glory of the fullness of his being overflows in truth and grace for his creatures. He doesn't need us. And therefore in his fullness he overflows for us. Such is the grace we receive at Christmas. ~ John Piper

Keep quiet. Don't panic. Never tell anyone the truth. She'd lived with their rules for twelve years, and for what? So that she might one day be so lucky as to be forgotten entirely. The memory of Minerva Lane - of who she'd been, what she'd done - felt like a hot coal covered in cold ashes. It smoldered on long after the fire had been doused. Sometimes, all that heat rose up in her until she felt the need to shriek like a teapot. Until she wanted to burn the mousy shreds of her tattered personality. It rose up in her now, that fiery rebellion. The part of her that was still Minerva - the part that hadn't been ground to smoothness - whispered temptation in her ear. You don't need to keep quiet. You need a strategy. ~ Courtney Milan

Sometimes we forget things not because we are scared of the truth but because we are not strong enough to to burden it. ~ Imania Margria

Eyes can't sense a smell of rain before it drops.
Mind can't see event of future before it happens. ~ Toba Beta

Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word. ~ Jerry Bridges

She let the relaxing song waft over and through her as she lost herself in everything around her: the millions of stars glittering above, the soft quilt beneath her, the man whose hand slipped warmly into hers. And she began to understand something she hadn't only a few short minutes before; she began to feel a certain, undeniable truth seeping into her skin, her muscles, her very bones.

And when the song came to its sweet, peaceful conclusion, she continued peering up at the sky even as she leaned her head over to rest it on Lucky's shoulder. And she whispered, "You love me."

He kept gazing upward, too, his answer coming softly. "Yeah, I do."

And it sounded ... like it wasn't a surprise to him at all.

The new knowledge made Tessa's skin tingle even as her body filled with warmth. And she pulled back just slightly to peer over at him, this man who loved her. He hadn't put it into words, but he hadn't needed to---because he'd shown her, in so many sweet ways. ~ Toni Blake

A fact never went into partnership with a miracle. Truth scorns the assistance of wonders. A fact will fit every other fact in the universe, and that is how you can tell whether it is or is not a fact. A lie will not fit anything except another lie. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll

In books, the truth makes everything good and fine. The good prevail. The wicked are punished. There is happiness. But it's not like that really, is it?"
"No," I say. "I suppose it only makes everything known. ~ Libba Bray

He died when he was only nineteen years old. I was still a baby at the time, so I didn't remember him. Growing up, I'd always told myself that was lucky. Because you can't miss someone you don't remember.
But the truth was, I did miss him. ~ Ernest Cline

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
Success in Circuit lies
Too bright for our infirm Delight
The Truth's superb surprise
As Lightning to the Children eased
With explanation kind
The Truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind
~ Emily Dickinson

Some men claimed that saying things made them true. Well, many men who said they were rich still died poor. Nox said he was cool, but that sun showed him he was a liar. ~ Dean F. Wilson

Hell is truth seen too late. ~ Thomas Hobbes

'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal. ~ William Shakespeare

Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts. ~ Debasish Mridha

My Selection wasn't a farce, but it wasn't that far off. My father chose all the
contestants by hand, picking young women with political alliances, influential families, or enough
charm to make the entire country worship the ground they walked on. He knew he had to make it
varied enough to seem legit, so there were three Fives thrown into the mix but nothing below that.
The Fives were meant to be little more than throwaways to keep anyone from being suspicious."
I realized my mouth was gaping open and shut it immediately. "Mom?"
"Was meant to be gone almost immediately. Truth be told, she barely made it past my father 's
attempts to sway my opinion or remove her himself. And look at her now." His whole face changed.
"Though it was hard for me to imagine, she is even more beloved as queen than my mother. She has
made four beautiful, intelligent, strong children. And she has been the source of every happiness in
my life. ~ Kiera Cass

Experience is bitter, but its teachings we retain; It has taught me this
who once has loved, loves never on earth again! ~ George Arnold

Of course things might have gone roughly in the past, but the past is over and cannot touch you unless you hold on to it. Right now, in this moment, the universe is responding not to your past but to the truth of who you are, always were, and always will be. ~ Marianne Williamson

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously. ~ Reza Aslan

You're the way, you are the light. Let's go to illuminate the world. ~ Debasish Mridha

Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ~ Franz Kafka

Nature ... has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea. ~ Democritus

When you truly love someone, you don't want anything except giving everything you have. ~ Debasish Mridha

gift of the broken.

it hurts but I find myself
pretending to be fine
"I'm okay" has become my favorite lie
and my smile is usually a mask
that hides the truth in what I feel
I'll say nothing because
you'll think I'm weak
I'll say nothing and let
my silence speak
the gift and curse of the broken
being able to hide behind lies
of happiness
the gift of being strong in a moment
of weakness ~ R.H. Sin

Anxiety can make anybody act nasty, big or small. You will be tested for your strength, and if you are seen as too weak, you will sometimes be treated abusively, discarded and avoided. I'm not saying that this should happen. I'm simply describing human beings as they are. ~ Cory Duchesne

Your so bitter, like kitty litter. ~ Big Daddy Kane

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see.. ~ Cecily Von Ziegesar

Wilem tapped Simmon's shoulder."He's telling the truth."
Simmon glanced over at him."Why would you say that?"
"He sounds more sincere then that when he lies. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

To hear the young talk today you would think no one had had any excitement in the past, any heartaches, any problems, any bitter frustrations or heady fulfilment. The young of today were more than a shade tedious; pompous, self-centred, so sure that their concerns were the first important ones that had ever happened. They had no perspective. no sense of proportion. Perhaps it was necessary to be old to acquire a true sense of proportion. It was small consolation but it was something. On ~ Winston Graham