Tyler Perry Quotes

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

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.

The only part of you that hurts when you're given the truth is the part that lives on lies.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

I often wonder which is best, to be honest about what you know in this world, or to continue to deny you know it and thereby fool yourself into believing that it does not exist!

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.

nothing good ever comes out of denying the truth about our situation.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

Most people like to live in illusions.

People would rather be deceived than have the truth cause them anxiety

The truth - you've got to deal with it or it will kill you bit by bit.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth is a pain which will not stop. And the truth of this world is to die. You must choose: either dying or lying. Personally, I have never been able to kill myself.

Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?

I think the greatest illusion we have is that denial protects us. It's actually the biggest distortion and lie. In fact, staying asleep is what's killing us.

I never write to disappear and escape. The truth is exactly the opposite. Most people strike me as escaping and disappearing in one way or another - into their jobs, their daily routines, their delusions about themselves and others.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

Pretending that we live doesn't make us alive.

People don't want to hear the truth; they never do. They wanna live in some kind of fantasy.

I'm not lying to myself like most people.

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

How hard it is to accept the truth. How hard it is

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.