Jay Asher Quotes

Geese are but Geese tho' we may think 'em Swans; and Truth will be Truth tho' it sometimes prove mortifying and distasteful.

There's more beauty in the truth even if it is dreadful beauty.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

I would have been a much more popular Wolrd Champion if I had always said what people wanted to hear. I might have been dead, but definitely more popular.

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

Truth is the most bitter to accept, swallow and digest it. The moment you speak truth, you lose your popularity. But I don't care.

A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

The truth doesn't hurt unless it ought to.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Too much truth is uncouth.

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

Say what is true, although what may be bitter and displeasing to people.

Truth purchases hatred. Veritas odium parit.

Truth purchaseth hatred.

We don’t like to face unpleasant reality. We want our leaders to tell us what we want to hear …. You cannot manipulate reality. Reality will real its ugly head

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

If I had children, as soon as I have them, I'm teaching them everything I know. I don't want to feed you fairytales. Fairytales are nice. But they come to an end, and then you have to face reality.

The bleakness of what faces us is difficult to swallow. As long as we engage in happy platitudes and a false kind of vision of the possible, it may empower you over the short term, but it is eventually, because of the reality in front of us, going to lead to despair and cynicism and apathy. It's better to swallow hard the bitter pill of what we're up against.

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like