Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Quotes

Truth is not always a pleasant thing.

Homely truth is unpalatable.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

Some truth has no nourishment in it.

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

Truth is scary. Truth has bad breath at times

Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable.

The truth usually has a slightly ugly look.

The truth's not pretty of course. No one likes to look it in the face.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

The truth hurts sometimes, particularly when it involves someone at a low point in their life.

The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.

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

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

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

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

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

They're only words. You can't be afraid of words that speak the truth, even if it's an unpleasant truth.

A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.

The sad truth is the truth is sad.