Unpleasant Reality Quotes

We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

We've got a rattlesnake by the tail, and the sooner we pound its damn head in the better.

The professional world was much more unpleasant than I thought. I was always wishing I could get back that enthusiasm I had when I was doing shows at college.

There are no painless solutions to this problem, but we’ve got to solve it.

Just like Sept. 11, only with nuclear weapons this time, that's the threat. I think that is the threat. I think it's just facing reality. It's not a happy reality, but it's reality and if you don't deal with it, it will become even more unpleasant.

… a distasteful but vital necessity

The truth is messy. It's raw and uncomfortable. You can't blame people for preferring lies.

Somebody saying something offensive to you, or insulting to you, is not pleasant, but it's part of life. And my belief is we need to shore ourselves up, and our kids up and our younger generation up to understand how to deal with that unpleasant reality, because we won't always be there to protect them. And you know, I for one want my own kids to know how to handle that.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Truth, when we are fortunate enough to find it, is like bad-tasting medicine. It rarely comes as a pleasant surprise, because if it surprises us, it means we've been denying it for some time and have a lot of beliefs based on falsehood. It's hard to give up those beliefs.

The truth is not always what we want to hear.

Truth can hurt so very much.

It was nice to hear the voices of little children at play, provided you took care to be far enough away not to hear what they were actually saying.

Reality means you live until you die. The real truth is nobody wants reality.

What an awful thing life is, isn’t it? It’s like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.

Much of what I say might sound bitter, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like it's stirring up trouble, but it's the truth. Much of what I say might sound like its hate, but it's the truth

If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.

The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

I've experienced it a few times at club level, when a manager goes. It doesn't become any easier, but it's part and parcel.

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

For the truth is a terrible thing.

When you have a big, ugly problem, there's never going to be a neat, elegant solution that is totally painless or without a cost.