Truth exists; only lies are invented. — Georges Braque
Truth is treason in the empire of lies. — Ron Paul
Sometimes the truth don't rhyme — Chance the Rapper
Truth between candid minds can never do harm. — Thomas Jefferson
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. — Herbert Agar
The truth will come out in the end. — Joseph Estrada
It's always better to face the truth, no matter how uncomfortable, than to continue coddling a lie. — Lou Holtz
Truth is the daughter of time. — Proverbs
Truth Hurts Image Quotes
Hurt me with the truth,don't comfort me with a lie. — Rihanna
It hurts because it matters.
Sometimes The Truth Hurts Quotes
Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness. — Conor McGregor
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good. — Henry Rollins
There is a big difference between hurt and harm. We all hurt sometimes in facing hard truths, but it makes us grow. It can be the source of huge growth. That is not harmful. Harm is when you damage someone. Facing reality is usually not a damaging experience, even though it can hurt. — Henry Cloud
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.
The truth is that we all have lives that are complicated. We all get hurt by people we love sometimes. It's laughable to believe that anyone is immune. The important thing is how you behave. — Tamara Mellon
Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is. — Syesha Mercado
Because the truth sometimes hurts," I said. Yeah," he said. "So do lies, though. — Sarah Dessen
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
Look, sometimes the truth could hurt you so I blow my cig smoke right at the truth commercial. — Joe Budden
Sometimes you will hate me because I will tell you the truth about your game. And the truth can hurt/humble you — Doc Rivers
My people have a saying. Kirha tahanahna ditari sukenah. To deny the presence of the sun doesn’t escape its blister. I admire your loyalty. But sometimes you have to face the truth, even when it hurts.” – Choo Co La Tah — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ender nodded. It was a lie, of course, that it wouldn’t hurt a bit. But since adults always said it when it was going to hurt, he could count on that statement as an accurate prediction of the future. Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth. — Orson Scott Card
If The Truth Hurts Quotes
If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's easy, she won't be amazing. If she's worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you're not worthy. ... Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for. — Bob Marley
If the truth shall kill them, let them die. — Ayn Rand
Apparently people don't like the truth, but I do like it; I like it because it upsets a lot of people. If you show them enough times that their arguments are bullshit, then maybe just once, one of them will say, 'Oh! Wait a minute - I was wrong.' I live for that happening. Rare, I assure you — Lemmy Kilmister
It's better to cry than to be angry; because anger hurts others, while tears flow silently through the soul and cleanses the heart.
If you want the happy tomorrows, you need the truths that hurt today. — Andrew Tate
The truth is limitless in its range, if you drop the T and look at it in reverse it could hurt. — Lupe Fiasco
Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie. — Yasmin Mogahed
No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work. — Eartha Kitt
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
If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be without dissimulation" and blunt the edge of truth, speaking not right things but smooth things, then I know nothing of Calvary love. — Amy Carmichael
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
It's like I know what I gotta say, I just don't know how to say it to you. — Drake
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. — Blaize Clement
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
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
Always communicate no matter how hard it is to tell someone something's wrong. It's worse not to talk about it. I learn this every few years. The truth hurts for 3 days. Lack of truth hurts your whole life. — James Marsters
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
No matter how much it hurts now, someday you will look back and realize your struggles changed your life for the better.
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
We tell the real truth of our life by the stories we repeatedly tell. — Mary Anne Radmacher
There are two reasons not to tell the truth--becuase lying will get you what you want, and because lying will keep someone from getting hurt. — Jodi Picoult
Happiness consists of being able to tell the truth without hurting anyone. — Marcello Mastroianni
Knowing The Truth Hurts Quotes
I'M SAD, because another young life was lost from his family, the racial divide has widened, a community is in shambles, accusations, insensitivity hurt and hatred are boiling over, and we may never know the truth about what happened that day. — Benjamin Watson
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
The truth is supposed to hurt. That's how it lets you know you don't got it. — Brad Stine
There is a battle of two wolves inside us all. One is evil. It is anger, jealousy, greed, resentment, lies, inferiority and ego. The other is good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, humility, kindness, empathy and truth. The wolf that wins? The one you feed.
I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. — Julie Garwood
The more that you're knowing, the more you will be feeling and seeing, the more that you will hurt in your heart, and in your self. Deep heart understanding replaces your need and your holding of personal truths. — John de Ruiter
The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth. — Ricky Gervais
Tell a lie once and all your truths become questionable.
The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts. — Veronica Roth
Speaking Truth Hurts Quotes
It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. — Adrian Rogers
One should not hurt others even by words. One must not speak an unpleasant truth unnecessarily. — Sarada Devi
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth. — Tacitus
Never lie to someone who trusts you and never trust someone who lies to you.
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
Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much. — Donald Trump
You can find hurt and pain in my music while finding the light. It represents empowerment… I speak from a very truthful and sincere place…with love — Stacy Barthe
Truth Is Painful Quotes
Our heavenly Father understands our disappointment, suffering, pain, fear, and doubt. He is always there to encourage our hearts and help us understand that He's sufficient for all of our needs. When I accepted this as an absolute truth in my life, I found that my worrying stopped. — Charles Stanley
I still believe that standing up for the truth of God is the greatest thing in the world. This is the end (purpose) of life. The end of life is not to be happy. The end of life is not to achieve pleasure and avoid pain. The end of life is to do the will of God, come what may. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.
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
Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful. Now, what is truth? There is no eternal truth. Every artist has to learn private truth though a painful private process. And that is what he has to convey. — Ritwik Ghatak
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
Existence is this, I thought, a start of joy, a stab of pain, an intense pleasure, veins that pulse under the skin, there is no other truth to tell. — Elena Ferrante
Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent. — Oliver Burkeman
I have a duty to speak the truth as I see it and share not just my triumphs, not just the things that felt good, but the pain, the intense, often unmitigated pain. It is important to share how I know survival is survival and not just a walk throught the rain. — Audre Lorde
We may have to face God's truth about our pain--it is real, but we must be careful not to get God and life mixed up. God does not cause the pain and sorrow. He suffers with us and desires to comfort us as only he can. — Jill Briscoe
Painful Truth Quotes
When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life. — Neem Karoli Baba
It all begins when you accept the thought passing through your head as absolute truth. The longer you hold on to this thought, the more you prolong the pain. — Mo Gawdat
In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it. — Marya Hornbacher
I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy. — Chelsea Manning
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature. — Louis Orr
All liars ... lie to protect themselves, to shield their egos from the raw pain of truth. — Aminatta Forna
Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both. — Patrick Ness
Better to know the quick pain of truth than the ongoing pain of a long-held false hope. — Trudi Canavan
Truth Is Bitter Quotes
The naked truth is always better than the best-dressed lie. — Ann Landers
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. — Robert Menzies
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
There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth. — Chanakya
The beauty of truth: whether it is bad or good, it is liberating. — Paulo Coelho
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. — Henry David Thoreau
We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us. — Denis Diderot
Ridicule may be the evidence of with or bitterness and may gratify a little mind, or an ungenerous temper, but it is no test of reason or truth. — Tryon Edwards
The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell. — H. L. Mencken
Harsh Truth Quotes
I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. — William Lloyd Garrison
Cherish the friend who tells you a harsh truth, wanting ten times more to tell you a loving lie. — Robert Breault
Love without truth is sentimentality; it supports and affirms us but keeps us in denial about our flaws. Truth without love is harshness; it gives us information but in such a way that we cannot really hear it. — Timothy Keller
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
As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end. — Neil Gaiman
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
Dear me. Such harsh truths so early in the morning cannot be good for the digestion. — Cassandra Clare
Along with judging myself harshly, I'd also always seen the truth of goodness in me. — Tara Brach
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
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
It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie. — Simon Sinek
Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings. — David Sedaris
My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill. — Drake
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
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt. — Wei Wu Wei
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
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that it is sure to hurt those who touch it; and likely to draw blood, perhaps the life blood, of those who press earnestly upon it. — Walter Savage Landor
Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know the truth; in helping others we help ourselves; and in hurting others we hurt ourselves. Character overshadows money, and trust rises above fame. Honesty is still the best policy. — Napoleon Hill
The search for truth is more precious than its possession. — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
I love animals. All animals. I wouldn't hurt a cat or a dog — or a chicken, or a cow. And I wouldn't ask someone else to hurt them for me. That's why I'm a vegetarian. — Peter Dinklage
Truth never hurts the teller. — Robert Browning
The truth hurts, but those lies heal. — Drake
Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. — Miguel de Cervantes
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
An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion. — John Steinbeck
We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth. — Andy Stanley
The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn't exist. — Byron Katie
The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose. — Samuel ibn Naghrillah
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