Hard Truth Quotes

“When the time has come to confront the hard truth, we may have to rewire our brains to ensure the healing from subversive mental barbs of aching incidents. ("Lost dreams")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“We are never prepared for what we expect.”
― James A. Michener, Caravans

“I can forget about her for hours or even whole days, and then the truth rushes back like a brush fire, burning me from the inside out. The person you loved? They're gone.”
― Ashley Woodfolk, When You Were Everything

“Exposure to true information does not matter anymore.

A person who is demoralized is unable to assess true information.
The facts tell nothing to him.

Even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents, with pictures.
Even if I take him by force to the Soviet Union, and show him a concentration camp,
he will refuse to believe it, until he is going to receive a kick in his fat bottom.

When the military boot crushes his balls, then he will understand, but not before that.
That is the tragedy of the situation of demoralization.”
― Yuri Bezmenov

“Sadness lies at the core of life. How can it not? We die. We lose the people we love. We don't get what we want. We get what we don't want. Things do not always work out well. Badness happens. The sun sets.”
― E.M. Hallowell

“I die of thirst here at the fountainside.”
― Richard Wilbur

“Those who say they believe in God, and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe in God but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“The entitled assholes of the world are sustained by girls who forgive too easily. And there's nothing I'd like to rid the world of more than entitled assholes.”
― Xiran Jay Zhao, Iron Widow

“The purpose of salt is to change the nature of what it invades without calling attention to itself. Attracting attention to yourself in the Kingdom of God is like seducing the bride because you are the best man of the groom.”
― Kingsley Opuwari Manuel

“Now on the screen, Carson shook his head. “What’s with you girls and feeling like you have to be perfect to go out in public?” he asked. “It’s not like it’s a sale barn and they weigh you before you can go in! Just because the rest of the school acts like there’s a weight limit on hotness doesn’t mean they’re right. Or that you need to buy into it.”
― Kelsie Stelting, Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks

“That was what you were trained to do as a plus-size girl—cover up. Turn around. Hide. Don’t expose anyone to your body in case it made them uncomfortable. Never mind how that secrecy made you feel like your body was something to be ashamed of. According to our society, your body wasn’t for you. It was for you to show everyone else.”
― Kelsie Stelting, Curvy Girls Can't Date Quarterbacks

“That stunning fuckin’ smile. I ain’t ever seen you smile in the whole time you’ve been at the compound.”

I lost my smile, then replied, “Because I do not have reason to smile very often.”

Ky’s fingers began tracing the back of my hand. “Then you make a reason, Li. Don’t make excuses for living a shit life. It ain’t rocket science. You don’t like something, find something you do. Don’t like being around someone, stay the fuck away. Wanna change your life, then get off your ass, bitch and fuckin’ change it.”
― Tillie Cole

“A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.”
― Michel Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White

“Most people are afraid of themselves. They carry that fear everywhere hoping no one will notice.”
― Julia Walton, Words on Bathroom Walls

“Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.”
― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men

“You do not have to sit outside in the dark. If you, however, want to look at the stars, you will find that darkness is required. The stars neither require it nor demand it.”
― Anne Dillard

“If you found God with great ease, perhaps it's not God that you have found.”
― Thomas Merton

“Those who say they believe in God, and yet neither love nor fear him, do not in fact believe in Him but in those who have taught them that God exists. Those who believe that they believe inGod but without any passion in their heart, any anguish of mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair, even in their consolation, believe only in the God-idea, not in God.”
― Miguel de Unamuno

“Those terms haunt me, -- in the way of all aspersions that contain a germ of truth. I have been unable to banish them. They sit on my shoulders and mutter in my ears during all my moments of doubt.”
― Alyson Foster, God Is an Astronaut

“You never really
know about the
people who
daydream of
killing you.”
― Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet

“Without suffering, we never wishes to be free.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“only brunettes and redheads are hot lol”
― Simon The Faggot

“The most stubborn of heads may waver when bashed against a rock.”
― Julius Bailey, Toils of the Valiant: Book Two of the Chronicles of Vrandalin

“But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“Just because I don't talk doesn't mean I am mad, there is difference between being Mad and Sad”
― Saurabh Gunjal

“Don't lie to protect my feelings. I'd rather you speak the truth with love and respect. I'll be fine!”
― Izey Victoria Odiase, 99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development

“Sometimes reality strays so far from what's rational that we can only explain it through fantasy.”
― Romina Garber, Lobizona

“As terrible as it was to admit it, the shock of seeing them so happily occupied without me hurt more than the break of my engagement to one of the best men I'd ever known.”
― Lucy Gilmore, The Lonely Hearts Book Club

“They are too far gone.”
― Sara Ellie MacKenzie

“In this case Karen’s child was her story. And all the world was waiting greedily for its deliverance even if they didn’t yet know its name or the uncomfortable shape of it and the peculiar contours that altogether were sure to test the foundations upon which they had built their holiest of houses and coziest of dens. They only knew that all of history was in want of a definitive accounting and that such had already been written and then ensepulchered by prophets unsung and that their eventual unveiling was nothing less than the birthright of all humankind.”
― Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause