hard truth Quotes

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

You have to, you need to be hard with each other. When things aren't going right you need to tell each other, otherwise it's going to be too easy.

No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.

Once you've been around this business long enough, anything is a possibility. It's a business first and foremost. Guys play it because they love it, but it is a business, and if you don't understand that it's a business, you're lying to yourself.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

The truth is what hurts

If there's a single lesson that life teaches us, it's that wishing doesn't make it so.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

The one thing an aspiring writer must understand is that it's hard. If you think it's not hard, you're not doing it right.

Most men would rather deny a hard truth than face it.

Wallow too much in sensitivity and you can't deal with life, or the truth.

I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.

C'mon kid. Think a minute, even if it hurts.

The role of the artist is to not look away.

You want the world to be set up for you, but sometimes it just isn't.

I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

Life, as I see it, is R-rated.

Every time something is going good, going great, there's always something that happens to remind you of reality.

We must face the facts as we find them, not as we may wish them.

After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.

And that's when she put her book down. And looked at me. And said it: "Life isn't fair, Bill. we tell our children that it is, but it's a terrible thing to do. It's not only a lie, it's a cruel lie. Life is not fair, and it never has been, and it's never going to be.

Some lessons are only delivered in the form of pain.

Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.

The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me.