70 Truth Hurts Quotes To Encourage You To Speak The Truth

“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.”- David Foster Wallace

“The worst part about being lied to is knowing you weren’t worth the truth.”

“The truth hurts, but it doesn’t kill. Lies may please, but it doesn’t heal.”

“Falsehood is easy, truth so difficult.” – George Elioth

“The truth may hurt for a little while, but a lie hurts forever.”

“Don’t deny what’s obvious to see.”

“Sometimes the truth hurts. If you don’t like it, then change it.” – Kaitlyn Anderson

“Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons.” – Michael Jackson

“We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.”- Denis Diderot

“When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded with a frown, must have some solemn proof to pass her down.” – Charles Churchill

“Sometimes being honest with someone or hearing the truth hurts, but it is always better to be honest and accept what is.”- Syesha Mercado

“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

“Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn’t it?”- Robin Roberts

“If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!”- Mark Twain

“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

“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

“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.” – Proverb

“If the truth hurts, you ain’t living right.” – Stephen Holder

“Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.” – Albert Einstein

“I lied when I said it didn’t hurt.”

“You can’t handle the truth.”

“The truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.” – William Blake

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off!”

“Actually, truth dies more quickly in the war of words than one of swords, and the more emotional the debate, the quicker the death.” – Bode Olakanm

“Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.”- Henry Rollins

“Truth sounds like hate to those who hate the truth.”

“There are truths which can kill a nation.” – Jean Giraudoux

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”- Ludwig Borne

“My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.” – Drake

“Sometimes the truth hurts so much that one can barely feel their presence.” – Rahul Naik

“They say the truth hurts. And these words hurt more than any I have ever written. But they are the truth – the cold, hard, undeniable truth. Not letting go doesn’t keep him with you. It’s still over. He’s still gone… And nothing will ever change that.” – Ranata Suzuki

“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

“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.”- Friedrich Nietzsche

“Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.” – Han Suyin

“Truth doesn’t hurt. It is only pride that hurts after hearing the truth.” – Levi M Mathews

“It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.”- Simon Sinek

“The truth hurts, but those lies heal.” – Drake

“Telling the truth and make someone cry is better than telling a lie to make someone smile.”

“The truth hurts because it’s real. It hurts because it mattered. And that’s an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.”- John Green

“I’d rather be hurt by the truth than protected by a lie.”

“Hurt me with the truth. But never comfort me with a lie.”

“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“Truth hurts. But lies can kill.”- Karen Marie Moning

“The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose.”- Samuel ibn Naghrillah

“Maturity is when you know the other person is lying but you just smile and let it go.”

“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.”- Oscar Wilde

“People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.”- David Duchovny

“The truth is heavy, therefore few care to carry it.”

“Embrace reality even if it burns you.”

“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.”- Aldous Huxley

“I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.” – Harry Truman

“The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.” – Herbert Agar

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.” – Jim Davis

“The truth is always there. The choice is yours, whether to face it or not.”

“Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”

“Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.”- Leslie Nielsen

“In order to be effective, truth must penetrate like an arrow and that is likely to hurt.”

“You’re not upset with me. You’re upset that I spoke the truth.”

“There is a tragic clash between truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.” – Nikolay Berdyayev

“Truth hurts; Doubt ruins; Lie destroys.”

“If the truth shall kill them, let them die.”- Ayn Rand

“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should be treated with caution.” – J.K. Rowling

“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

“Most of us avoid telling the truth because it’s uncomfortable. We’re afraid of the consequences-making others feel uncomfortable, hurting their feelings or risking their anger. And yet, when we don’t tell the truth, and others don’t tell us the truth, we can’t deal with matters from a basis in ...

... reality.”- Jack Canfield

“I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn’t been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.”- Alija Izetbegovic

“The ego is terrified of the truth. And the truth is that the ego doesn’t exist.”- Byron Katie

“The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.” – Terry Pratchett

“Never assume every critic is a hater…Everyone is not hating on you, someone out there is telling you the truth…”

“The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.” – Oscar Wilde

“There’s the truth that hurts us and the truth that hurts others.”

“The truth hurts, but silence kills.”- Mark Twain

“Truth Hurts.” – Lizzo (Song Lyrics)

“My heart won’t admit what my mind already knows.”