truth confrontation Quotes

Nothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

You can't handle the truth!

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

It is always hard when reality intrudes on belief.

The past is always with you. Some people want to be protected from this truth.

Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.

People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it's served up.

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

I would put myself in the attitude to look in the eye an abstract truth, and I cannot. I blench and withdraw on this side and on that. I seem to know what he meant who said, No man can see God face to face and live.

He learned to live with the truth. Not to accept it, but to live with it. It was like living with an elephant. His room was tiny, and every morning he had to squeeze around the truth just to get to the bathroom. To reach the armoire to get a pair of underpants he had to crawl under the truth, praying it wouldn't choose that moment to sit on his face. At night, when he closed his eyes, he felt it looming above him.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.