It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth …I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it.
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down.
The truth--a hideous spectacle!
Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow.
The most heartbreaking things are the ones that are sometimes the truest.
But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
Nobody said it was a beautiful world with no scars.
Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.
No matter how difficult and painful it may be, nothing sounds as good to the soul as the truth.
You can't think decently if you're not willing to hurt yourself
Last night it had been my father who had finally said it: "She’s never coming home." A clear and easy piece of truth that everyone who had ever known me had accepted. But he needed to say it, and she needed to hear him say it.
If you don't define the problem you'll never reach a painful solution.
I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.
The sad truth is the truth is sad.
It's better to have the faith to embrace reality with all its pain than to cling to the false comfort of a painless fantasy.
There is no peace precisely because there has been no justice. As painful and inconvenient as justice may be, we have seen that the alternative allowing accountability to fall by the wayside is worse.
Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.
It's not a cry you can hear at night. It's not somebody who has seen the light. It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah.
Knowledge is a beautiful thing, but there are a few things I wish I didn't know.
I'm a fan of the truth... even if it's painfully hard to accept.
Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.
The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.
Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting.
