Joe Budden Quotes

It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

Many people would rather have fine words and false hopes than the truth which is unacceptable.

I don't believe you get to just act like things didn't happen because it's uncomfortable or sad.

It isn't that the lies are too beautiful to resist. It's that the truth is too hideous to face.

When people say things are a lot more complicated than that, they means they're getting worried that they won't like the truth.

THE British are brave people. They can face anything, except reality.

Truly men hate the truth; they'd liefer meet a tiger on the road.

The truth. Men will blind themselves with hot irons, rather than face it.

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

You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist.

Quick, someone's coming! Look real!

I don't like it when someone can look you in the eye and lie to you, or pretend that they're more than you.

I understand why she did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.

Memories are dangerous things. You turn them over and over, until you know every touch and corner, but still you'll find an edge to cut you.

Kindness is willing to look in the face of the hurting.

Seriously, I've just realized that almost everyone is a fraud, so I try not to feel too bad about it.

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

I don't like to know too much because I'm a terrible liar.

You are always cheating for the audience.

Post-​wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in several dialects: sarcastic, jaded, opaque; cool and clever. They guard against those moments when melodrama or self-​pity might split their careful seams of intellect, expose the shame of self-​absorption without self-​awareness.

by thus keeping one pace ahead of myself I need never catch up with the truth.

The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world.

Many photographers live in a dream world of beautiful backgrounds. It wouldn’t hurt them to get a taste of reality to wake them up.

People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

Explanations don't comfort. You won't feel better if you know why. It won't hurt any less.