Truth Hurts Quotes

The truth only hurts when you want to believe a lie. ~ Jennifer McVey

Truth hurts. Then again, it also sets you free. [Jimmy Cotton] ~ Kristen Ashley

Why do human beings have the peculiar impression that belief is the same as truth?"
"Because sometimes the truth hurts. Sometimes we need to believe in a better truth."
"What better truth can there be than truth? ~ Gene Brewer

There's a difference between maliciously offending somebody - on purpose - and somebody being offended by ... truth. If you're offended by the truth, that's your problem. I have no obligation to not offend you if I'm speaking the truth. The truth is supposed to offend you; that's how you know you don't got it. ~ Brad Stine

It is hard to face the truth, Bel," Lux says. "Only the courageous ever do. ~ Zoey Hunter

We fear pain so much that if the truth hurts, we embrace the lies. ~ Debasish Mridha

The truth hurts sometimes. If we are going to be taught by God, the fisherman, we first need to be captured by Him. And His hook is going to have a bite. Of course, it's going to hurt. The truth hurts when we are sinners and when we acknowledge we are not surrendering to the truth. ~ Donald H. Calloway

He's my family, and you don't just push family aside for some itch you want to scratch. That's not how real love works. Real love is support, even when you're fighting. Real love in honesty, even when the truth hurts like hell. Real love is being there through every miserable minute and every indefinite minute. ~ Aimee Carter

Be yourself & stand out because that's what makes you different. ~ Truth Hurts

You don't know how to fight. You just leave it up to me. ~ Norah Olson

Buck up, suck up, and admit you fucked up. ~ Linda Hilton

The truth hurts. But if we want to heal the world, we had better start paying attention to the pain. ~ Laurence Overmire

Ryan held out his hands. "What the hell is this? Beat The Shit Out Of Ryan Week?" "I didn't think you'd mind, since you're always insisting upon getting yourself hospitalized,"Claire said.
Ryan's face screwed into disgust. "That was uncalled for."
"The truth hurts, baby."
He smiled. "If you're going to talk to me like that, you can insult me all day long."
Claire pulled her car keys from her pocket, and then pulled on Ryan's hand. "I meant that you're a baby. It wasn't a term of endearment."
"Yeah, right. ~ Jamie McGuire

Rhiannon's Law #14: There is a reason the truth hurts. When you cease to feel the sting, it means you've stopped caring. And damn, wouldn't that be a total fucking waste? ~ J.A. Saare

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth. ~ Will Rogers

Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is. ~ Syesha Mercado

The truth hurts, but silence kills. ~ Mark Twain

Beautiful spirit and an evil heart don't match. ~ Germany Kent

You can't change an unpleasant reality if you won't acknowledge it, Mac. You can only control what you're willing to face. Truth hurts. But lies can kill. ~ Karen Marie Moning

There are no single guys who don't have at least one major flaw, and a flaw, I might add, that would stop you from dating them – even if everything else was great. Why? Simple math. Women are interesting and honest and sensitive. Most men are not. There is only one normal, decent single guy for every five women in this city. This is what's known as the Great Male Statistic. Girls don't want to face the GMS. They want to believe there's someone for everyone. The truth hurts. You only start coming to terms with the GMS when you're twenty-six or twenty-seven. It actually killed Sylvia Plath. She finally found this guy in grad school who she thought was so great, and she married him, and he cheated on her. ~ Caren Lissner

I'm inspired by the music, always have been, always will be, it's only what a track or instrumental interpretation from a producer can do that will excite my pen into making magic for someone else to enjoy..Only the music inspires me.. ~ Truth Hurts

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it. ~ Tyler Perry

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts.
-Maggie ~ Sarah Dessen

the truth hurts loudest when you toss it around, & the echo...the echo is what drives girls like me mad with remembering. ~ Sabrina Benaim

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts. ~ Leslie Nielsen

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The truth hurts when you live a life of lies. ~ Habeeb Akande

She wanted to believe him with the yearning that comes with the suspicion that truth hurts, and that cowards live longer and better, even if they do so in the prison of their own lies. ~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon

We live in a terrible world, "happiness" is defined by how lucky you are in society, let me say this; out of life experiences spanning throughout my 19-20 years of my life, I learned that life is unfair, but ironically, every time I TRY to do something right, it gets spit back in my f###### face. In short, even though it may sound depressing or negative, in life, it is desperately not fair, nothing will be happy or normal and if something happens that you thought shouldn't or cant, it's going to happen anyway, the truth is the truth, and the truth hurts, deal with it, and sometimes nothing will ever get better from there ever again, deal with it. ~ C.J. Butler

The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose ... ~ Samuel Ibn Naghrillah

Anything you can settle with money is cheap. ~ Erich Maria Remarque

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. ~ Henry Rollins

The truth hurts, but those lies heal. ~ Drake

Whoever said the truth hurts was being an optimist. The truth is an excruciatingly painful son of a bitch. ~ Colleen Hoover

Remember, the truth hurts for a little while. Lies hurt forever. ~ Gena Showalter

You want to kill me??
- So I guess that truth hurts, but why it hurts?
Lie doesn't but truth does??
How does it happen??
So you go... you say "Well, well pretty nice made knife..." and you are looking it by moving it like rotate and such type of stuff and one moment you want to kill me. But why??
Is it because I just "I lived" or it was because of "Listen" or it was because of "The Walk"??

or what's the answer? ~ Deyth Banger

The truth hurts, sometimes, I suppose. But that doesn`t mean it shouldn`t be known. ~ Trisha Leigh

The truth hurts for a little while. A lie hurts forever. ~ Ryan Bigge

Start ringing things up then. This won't take long."
"Which ones?"
"I don't care." I push some at her. "These."
"These?" She looked dubious.
"Why not these?"
She glanced at Ray. "'Cause if that's your man, I'd say you can leave these off."
"Oh, no, you didn't." Ray said.
"What's this shit?" Ray demanded, looking at the saleclerk.
"Honey, truth hurts, but ain't no way you're a Magnum."
"Well, I ain't no medium!"
The clerk smiled. "Yeah, but I was being generous."
"What are you doing?" The clerk demanded as Ray grabbed another box. "I ain't rung those up yet."
Ray pulled out a foil package and tossed the box back on the counter. "So ring it up."
She arched an eyebrow, but didn't bother, maybe because she was watching him unbutton his fly. I caught his wrist. "What are you doing?"
"Proving a point."
"Not in the middle of the store, you're not."
"Ain't nobody here," the cashier reminded me. "And ain't no way he's filling that thing out. ~ Karen Chance

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. ~ Abraham H. Maslow

How can I do better?" "What am I doing that I don't know?" "What am I not doing that I don't see?" These questions can lead to so many benefits. And believe me, the truth hurts. Even when I have solicited feedback, any judgment can feel harsh. But the upside of painful knowledge is so much better than the downside of blissful ignorance. (p.83 f) ~ Sheryl Sandberg

Tell The Truth.
Most of your problems come from not telling the truth.
The lies you tell, even to spare other people's feelings, always come back to haunt you.
If you simply tell people what you mean you would be better off, a lot happier, not trapped in some awkward social situation. Others will know where they standand will be more honest with you.
They won't expect you to be what you're not. They won'tneed to test you to discover your intentions. You won't have to make excuses for not doing things you didn't want to do or explain why you prefer to do what like to do. They'll know.
Telling the truth and being your own person are closely linked. A strong person says what he or she means. A weak person lies to please others. A strong person lets the truth be other people's problem. A weak person holds the truth inside and complains about being treated unfairly.
What is telling the truth hurts other people's feelings? You're not supposed to tell people that they look fat, are stupid or ugly. That's just being rude.
Tell the truth avout what you feel, want, and like and mean what you say. If other's get hurt by your truth, they'll have to deal with it. Others may not like what you say, but they'll respect you for being honest and they'll survive better than if you lie to them.
If you lie to please people, they won't really believe you. They'll be suspicious and suffer with every inconsistency they find in your story. You'll b ~ David Viscott

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.
Sold my soul and yeah, the truth hurts. ~ Marina Diamandis Marina And The Diamonds

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill. ~ Drake

Everything is going according to plan in this strategically fathomed notion of "country" where the population wholeheartedly believes in that fabled myth known as democracy. The corporations that profit from our endless war campaigns, who have a multifarious number of politicians at the top of their covert letterheads and on payroll always get what they pay for - a route to even more of our tax dollars. The status quo doesn't change with the election of any given politician, whether it be in the Senate, the Congress, or even the White House. This nation (i.e. notion) is, in and of itself, nothing but an ingeniously designed corporation that uses you and I to further perpetuate the myth of country, the myth of united, the myth of democracy, and the myth of patriotism. We have long passed the point where we the people sat on the tongue of this monstrosity. We now reside in the belly of the beast. ~ A.K. Kuykendall

If the truth hurts, than change what the truth is! ~ Steven Magnani

truth hurts just like needles, but they both provide pathways to the cure! ~ Candice Dow

We were so good, playing the blame game
Now we both lose, playing the love game. ~ Soroosh Shahrivar

The truth hurts, my man, but it's a good pain. ~ Joshua David Bellin

When the truth hurts we always hate the messenger ~ Neal Shusterman

Ignorance is bliss, right? Well, knowledge is misery. And the truth hurts. ~ Mia Asher

The truth hurts because it's the shit that everyone kept from you. ~ Kate Le Vann

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

The truth hurts, only when it can heal. ~ Rob Liano

If the truth shall kill them, let them die. ~ Immanuel Kant

There are many things in your heart you can never tell to another person. They are you, your private joys and sorrows, and you can never tell them. You cheapen yourself, the inside of yourself, when you tell them. ~ Greta Garbo

The sad fact is that if you love education, revere the life of the mind, care about the pursuit of truth, think young people need to receive wisdom from their elders, and value moral clarity, the university is the last place you would want to send your 18-year-old. ~ Dennis Prager

In the spaniards heart is a great yearning for freedom, but only his own. A great love for truth and honor in all its forms, but not in its substance. And a deep conviction that nothing can be proven except that it be made to bleed. Virgins, bulls, men. Ultimately God himself. ~ Cormac McCarthy

Sometimes you have to take a hit from your enemy for them to be seen as what they are. ~ Willow Winters

It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze 'em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from 'Sesame Street.' ~ Freddie Prinze, Jr.

good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep ~ Anne Lamott

The world will lose something if you do not find yourself, if you do not answer the question "Who am I ~ Sunday Adelaja

I read somewhere once that soulmates are simply two people who recognize the damage in each other but the truth is that there's a lot more to it than that. Sometimes, I used to joke with Ashling that we were like Elliot and E.T. because most of the time we thought the same thoughts and we felt the same emotions. Ashling would laugh and say that as long as she could be Elliot, she wouldn't argue with me. ~ Ronan O'Brien

This is a story about survival.
Letting go and learning to let in.
Getting along and moving on.
The truth about life.
The things left unsaid ... ~ Nadege Richards

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern,
but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us. ~ Michael Hogan

Most people say they want the truth. What they mean is that they want it if it's palatable. ~ Camille Pagan

When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments. ~ Diane Duane

Once we have a true revelation that we are loved, valued, and purposed, it becomes difficult to live in such a way that contradicts this truth. ~ Harmony Dust

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing. ~ Susan Howatch

A familiar sensation sparks inside me, the one I had a few years ago, the one that hurts because it's dangerous and overwhelming. Knowing how it is to truly love someone is torturous. You try to bury that feeling. So you become lonely, deprived, and when you sense anything remotely like it, the emotion comes back to haunt you. It's one sick fucking game. ~ Danielle Esplin

And it hurts to be feeling this much ~ Melina Marchetta

You can't build your life around hurts from the past -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys ~ Tyler Perry

Did this mean every impossible fairy tale was grounded somewhere in absolute truth? Was there anything sane or normal at all, or was everything just magic and ghost stories? ~ Stephenie Meyer

Shit, man, democracy failed before it started.

Who thought it was a good idea to let the masses of fucktards decide anything?

[Guess I've got more faith in people.]

People? The election of 2044 -- Curls Bellberry, a boy band presidency on the platform that the Earth is flat and that he'd nuke New York to save Social Security. There's a good reason he was the last president.

Problem with letting people pick a leader is they gravitate towards confident sociopaths no matter how stupid they are.

It's the perception of qualification that fools people.

At least by having corporate executives rule us we get folks who are good at business.

Life hurts, the world is fucked, and that's not going to change. . . ~ Rick Remender

In true community we will not choose our companions, for our choices are so often limited by self-serving motives. Instead, our companions will be given to us by grace. Often they will be persons who will upset our settled view of self and world. In fact, we might define true community as that place where the person you least want to live with lives….
Community will teach us that our grip on truth is fragile and incomplete, that we need many ears o hear the fullness of God's word for our lives. And the disappointments of community life can be transformed by our discovery that the only dependable power for life lies beyond all human structures and relationships.
In this religious grounding lies the only real hedge against the risk of disappointment in seeking community. That risk can be borne only if it is not community one seeks, but truth, light, God. Do not commit yourself to community, but commit yourself to God…In that commitment you will find yourself drawn into community.
Parker Palmer, A Place Called Community, 1977 ~ Parker J. Palmer

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason. ~ James Madison

What a pity, I reflected, that honesty in human relations is so rarely possible. We are compelled to approach, circle and retreat as though performing the steps of a complicated dance, neither trusting the appearance of truth not daring to speak it. ~ Victoria Clayton

Places are like smells - they can take you back anywhere. ~ Kyle Labe

The true calamity of clean eating is not that it is entirely false. It is that it contains a kernel of truth. Underneath all the nutribabble talk of 'glowing' and wellness, the gurus of clean eating are completely right to say that most modern eaters would benefit from consuming less refined sugar and processed meat and more vegetables and meals cooked from scratch. The problem is that it's near impossible to pick out the sensible bits of clean eating and ignore the rest. Whether the term clean is used or not, there is a new puritanism about food that has taken root widely. ~ Bee Wilson

The gospel of grace is not about what YOU do to make God smile, it's embracing what GOD HAS DONE through His Son Jesus Christ, putting a smile on your face. ~ Paul Silway

Truth has no continuity. It is the mind that wants to make the experience which it calls truth continuous, and such a mind shall not know truth. Truth is always new; it is to see the same smile, and see that smile newly, to see the same person, and see that person anew, to see the waving palms anew, to meet life anew. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

Something shines out, a truth so self-evident that the words dictate themselves. We're cashing in a billion years of planetary savings bonds and blowing it on assorted bling. ~ Richard Powers

Fable has strong shoulders that carry far more truth than fact can. ~ Barry Hughart

Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth. ~ Lauren Miller

Behavior is math: Truth is found in the sum of its parts. ~ Steve Maraboli

I feel lucky for my upbringing and tremendous adversity, which made me so successful, now I like to devote my life to improve lives of others, who are facing adversity every day. ~ Debasish Mridha

You are the king no doubt, but in one respect,
at least, I am your equal: the right to reply.
I claim that privilege too.
I am not your slave. I serve Apollo.
I don't need Creon to speak for me in public.

So,
you mock my blindness? Let me tell you this.
You with your precious eyes,
you're blind to the corruption in your life,
to the house you live in, those you live with-
who are your parents? Do you know? All unknowing
you are the scourge of your own flesh and blood,
the dead below the earth and the living here above,
and the double lash of your mother and your father's curse
will whip you from this land one day, their footfall
treading you down in terror, darkness shrouding
your eyes that now can see the light!

Soon, soon,
you'll scream aloud - what haven won't reverberate?
What rock of Cithaeron won't scream back in echo?
That day you learn the truth about your marriage,
the wedding-march that sang you into your halls,
the lusty voyage home to the fatal harbor!
And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream
will level you with yourself and all your children.

There. Now smear us with insults - Creon, myself
and every word I've said. No man will ever
be rooted from the earth as brutally as you. ~ Robert Fagles

I'm glad you told me. Thank you for trusting me with the truth."

I looked up and smiled. "I trust you with my heart. Giving you the truth was easy. ~ Linda Kage

When all else fails fall back on the truth.
No I'm a politician I can't tell the truth

Mara Cal Omas ~ Walter Jon Williams

Focus on what's important. Give more attention to your dreams than your fears, to your now than your then, to your expansive truth than other's diminishing lies. ~ Unknown 21

It's not what people do to us that hurts us. In the most fundamental sense, it is our chosen response to what they do to us that hurts us. ~ Stephen Covey

But the loneliness was still on Danny and demanded an outlet.
'Here we sit,' he began at last.
' - broken-hearted,' Pilon added rhythmically.
'No, this is not a poem,' Danny said. 'Here we sit, homeless. We gave our lives for our country, and now we have no roof over our head.'
'We never did have,' Pilon added helpfully.
Danny drank dreamily until Pilon touched his elbow and took the bottle.
'That reminds me,' Danny said, 'of a story of a man who owned two whore-houses
' His mouth dropped open. 'Pilon! my little fat duck of a baby friend. I had forgotten! I am an heir! I own two houses.'
'Whore-houses?' Pilon asked hopefully. 'Thou art a drunken liar,' he continued.
'No, Pilon. I tell the truth. The viejo died. I am the heir. I, the favourite grandson.'
'Thou art the only grandson,' said the realist Pilon. ~ John Steinbeck

Cold hearts are not anxious enough to doubt. Men who love will have their misgivings at times; that is not the evil. But the evil is, when men go on in that languid, doubting way, content to doubt, proud of their doubts, morbidly glad to talk about them, liking the romantic gloom of twilight, without the manliness to say,
I must and will know the truth. That did not John. Brethren, John appealed to Christ. ~ Frederick William Robertson

Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery, and every truth easily becomes a lie. ~ I. F. Stone

But the storytellers would never know that. Even if people had known the truth, they wouldn't have been interested in telling it. Flowers pouring from Windows like falling stars made a better tale. ~ Alwyn Hamilton

Success is a transformation not a final destination. ~ Debasish Mridha

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths. ~ George Bernard Shaw

I assert once again as a truth to which history as a whole bears witness that men may second their fortune, but cannot oppose it; that they may weave its warp, but cannot break it. Yet they should never give up, because there is always hope, though they know not the end and more towards it along roads which cross one another and as yet are unexplored; and since there is hope, they should not despair, no matter what fortune brings or in what travail they find themselves. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

We all tell lies to protect our solitude. We deny the truth and present a false image of ourselves to blend into society. ~ Saleem Haddad