Susanne Bier Quotes

The truth is not beautiful --- it stands on cloven hooves - it is covered in coagulated blood --- but it is the truth.

Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.

The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.

Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

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

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, when you finally chase it down, is almost always far worse than your darkest visions and fears.

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

I have certainly seen my share of the world as it really is and not how I wish it would be.

I had to grow up fast because we know it's not all fairy tales out there; it's full of rubbish.

I don't like false happy endings, and I don't think the real world is such a forgiving place.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

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

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

All round and round does the world lie as in a sharp-shooter's ambush, to pick off the beautiful illusions of youth, by the pitiless cracking rifles of the realities of age.

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

You always think another time would have been ideal for you . . . the reality is there was no novocaine when you went to the dentist.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.