Uncomfortable Reality Quotes

In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood.

The truth is what hurts

No one wants the truth if it is inconvenient.

It is almost a joke, but a joke that nobody tells.

Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.

I happen to live in reality. The name of my city is Literalville. And it makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

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

Truth only means something when it's hard to admit.

No sane person wants hell to exist. No sane person wants evil to exist. But hell is just evil eternalized. If there is evil and if there is eternity, there can be hell. If it is intellectually dishonest to disbelieve in evil just because it is shocking and uncomfortable, it is the same with hell. Reality has hard corners, surprises, and terrible dangers in it. We desperately need a true road map, not nice feelings, if we are to get home. It is true, as people often say, that "hell just feels unreal, impossible." Yes. So does Auschwitz. So does Calvary.

People don't like to hear the truth out here cause the truth makes them think.

And they are beginning to realize that the world they live in is a place where the right thing is often hard, sometimes dangerous, and frequently unpopular.

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

People are always afraid of the truth.

For the truth is a terrible thing.

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

On any given day, there's always something I'd rather be doing than facing the ugly, racist underbelly of America.

Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.

There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.

A lie would have no sense unless the truth were felt dangerous.

If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

You only can rest when have the truth, even when it's horrible.

We like to make tough speeches, but we don't like to make tough choices.

The world I've grown into at the moment is becoming increasingly more disturbing and unsettling.