Bitter Truth Quotes

“Loving yourself is essential but not enough,
the bitter truth is, you still need to see that love reflected in someone else's eyes.”
― Wordions

“Growth requires the acceptance of the most uncomfortable truth.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Find A Cause Outside Yourself: Sermon of Sustainability

“The bitter truth is we don't get the people we want. We get the people we deserve. And then, our life becomes a story about struggling to adjust to them.”
― Garima Soni - words world

“The worst can always be true”
― Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

“Why are you so driven? What is the real reason you must not go to Hufflepuff and be happier there? What is your true fear?"

I must achieve my full potential. If I don't I... fail...

"What happens if you fail?"

Something terrible...

"What happens if you fail?"

I don't know!

"Then it should not be frightening. What happens if you fail?"

I DON'T KNOW! BUT I KNOW THAT IT'S BAD!

There was silence for a moment in the caverns of Harry's mind.

"You know - you aren't letting yourself think it, but in some quiet corner of your mind you know just exactly what you aren't thinking - you know that by far the simplest explanation for this unverbalisable fear of yours is just the fear of losing your fantasy of greatness, of disappointing the people who believe in you, of turning out to be pretty much ordinary, of flashing and fading like so many other child prodigies...”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“People are more about money and less about their passion.”
― Aiyaz Uddin

“I will tell you the truth. The truth is, no matter how much you protect yourself, something chaotic can happen, and it will turn your life for the worse. No matter how nice you are, there will be people be who will hate you, will try to harm you. No matter how brave and competent you think you are, there is a limit to how much you can achieve. And last but not least, no matter what you do, death is coming for you.”
― Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster

“It is a bitter truth that democracy, particularly in the Pakistani nation and generally in all Muslim states, is like pearls in front of donkeys; it means offering a valuable and beneficial system to those who don't even have insight and sense of it.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“Even when I get out of my own way, I'm still not getting anywhere. I've spent my life waiting for marshmallows and they didn't give me any.”
― Dmitry Dyatlov

“Experience does not whisper truths; it shouts them, loud enough to shatter our illusions.”
― Aloo Denish Obiero

“People will make you change and ask why you did.”
― Enoch Olalere