Harsh Truth Quotes

“As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“If you don't want anyone to know about your existence, you might as well kill yourself. You're taking up space, air.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“This soil is bad for certain kinds of flowers. Certain seeds it will not nurture, certain fruit it will not bear, and when the land kills of its own volition, we acquiesce and say the victim had no right to live. We are wrong, of course, but it doesn't matter. It's too late. At least on the edge of my town, among the garbage and the sunflowers of my town, it's much, much, much too late.”
― Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye

“We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same.”
― Caitlyn Paige

“Sometimes my own darkness scares me.”
― Heena Rathore P.

“I'm sorry if this sounds harsh or surprises anyone, but this is where we are. If you want the outcome to be different, you will have to do something about it.”
― Sheryl Sandberg, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead

“And our nation, though it has no drinking water, electricity, sewage system, public transportation, sense of hygiene, discipline, courtesy, or punctuality, does have entrepreneurs.”
― Aravind Adiga

“I dispute the point that nuclear energy is 'clean' and 'cost-effective'. As I recall, when we first harnessed nuclear power it was to drop an atom bomb on a civilian population, not to save the environment. However, you must admit, the victors are never tried for war crimes.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“People are always busy in trying to manipulate and dominate others!”
― Salman Aziz

“Truth is only harsh if you're unable to face it.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We have sentiment; we have emotionality, sensuality, sexuality; we have remembrances of something which we have thought as love. But actually, brutally, we have no love.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Honest people will always be hated, not because they are incorrect (they may be exactly right), but because some loathe truth and its agents.”
― Stewart Stafford

“We live in such a messed-up world where going to school and getting a job is mandatory, but living is not.”
― Lindsey-Anne Pontes, Let Me Save You

“Truth and Wisdom are always attractive and beautiful even when they are not attractive and beautiful, or mankind would not be seeking them so much despite the harsh reality they portrayed at times.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“Look around you. These buildings, cars, trees, people - everything is made up of ice, even human emotions, and feelings. You know one day when the sun will rise high, all this is going to melt. But then you make sure not to drown in this town. You must gather your things and go in search of another town. To another ice town. But remember, wherever you go, it will always be an ice town. And the thing about ice is its meant to melt.”
― Akash Rathod, Ice Town

“Don’t let things drag on longer than they should. Before you know it, it’ll be too late and you’ll be full of regret.”
― Lindsey-Anne Pontes, Let Me Save You

“You can never do enough or be enough for somebody with a huge void because the problem is not with you, the problem lies with them.”
― Germany Kent

“Humans are pitful creatues; they wanted to gain freedom from this illusionary world. So, they pray to God as in next birth, they will be able to serve in heaven, which is a place free from Voilence,lust and greed.”
― Bedbrota Saha, Montopno: The Reign of a killer

“All this managed to prove to us that your extremely good at turning me off”
― Tahereh Mafi, Ignite Me

“I tried to imagine what it would be like if Constantin were my husband.

It would mean getting up at seven and cooking him eggs and bacon and toast and coffee and dawdling about in my nightgown and curlers after he’d left for work to wash up the dirty plates and make the bed, and then when he came home after a lively, fascinating day he’d expect a big dinner, and I’d spend the evening washing up even more dirty plates till I fell into bed, utterly exhausted.

This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A’s, but I knew that’s what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard’s mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.”
― Sylvia Plath

“Sadly, how often did mankind heed a warning? Gadflies are often swatted unmercifully.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Vocation of a Gadfly

“People invest in stocks based on their statistics over the years to have a higher probability on their side. Due to this anomaly, most of the people around you lead a similar life, they grow up under the leadership of their parents, work hard to achieve their predictable goals, get a good job, attain stability over the years, get married, grow old and the same trend gets kicked off with their offsprings.”
― DRTao, Break Them All!!: A Modern Era Awakening!

“We call them ‘best friends,’ but the moment they do something we don’t like, we demote them from their position.”
― Lindsey-Anne Pontes, Let Me Save You

“If somebody changes their tone about you it generally means that they have discovered or uncovered a truth about you that makes them not want to deal with you.”
― Germany Kent

“Well, if you really want to know, I’m basically in love with a boy who is totally wrong for me in every way but I just can’t forget about him or give him up even though I should because he did something that really hurt me and he may have even lied to me but I don’t even seem to care that he did so and now he’s just made it harder for me to dislike him because he said a really nice apology and told me everything that I wanted to hear and so I forgave him even though I still deep down harbour some resentment towards him but I’m sure he saw it in my eyes and heard it in my words that I’m still completely pathetically madly head over heels for him and would still love him even if he did it all over again and broke my heart into a thousand pieces.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“…females were possibly as complex and mysterious as the secrets of the universe.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Exposed

“To those who have everything, more will be given; from those who have nothing, everything will be taken.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“What I do know is that the truth can hurt; truth can be confronting; truth doesn’t change; and no lie will ever come from the truth.”
― H.C. Roberts, Harp and the Lyre: Extraction

“They won't understand a thing until you beat it into them.”
― Satoru Nii, Wind Breaker 2

“He moved an inch toward her. “You’re the loveliest woman ever to bash her head against a wall, but the wall you’re battering is and thicker than the Great Wall of China, and there’s only one of you. It’s not the stones that will give way to you, my dear.”
Free swallowed. “You’ve got it wrong.”
“Ah, the wall is made of paper, then, and you’ll burst through it at any second.” He laughed at her, and she could hear that ice in his voice. “Give yourself another ten years, and maybe you’ll understand what you’re facing. Until then, go ahead. Keep fighting.”
Free contemplated him in the darkness. “After tonight, do you still think that I’m naïve? That I don’t understand how the world works?”
“There’s no proof you do understand it. After everything you saw today, you still stayed up to send out your next issue. What do you imagine your little paper will change? Do you think that suddenly, Delacey will read one of your essays and say, ‘Good God, I’ve got it all wrong. Women deserve to be treated fairly after all’?”
“No,” Free looked away. “Of course I don’t think that. I’ll never convince him.”
“Or do you imagine that there is a group of men somewhere who haven’t yet made up their minds on the question of female suffrage? Men who are thinking, ‘Well, I suppose women might be actual human, just like men. Maybe I had better look out for them.’”
Free felt her face flush. “Don’t be ridiculous.”
“Because I can tell you what will happen,” Mr. Clark said in his dark, dangerous voice. “You women will squawk amongst yourselves about injustice and fairness. Maybe if you do it loudly enough, someday a handful of you will be allowed to vote, and it will be accounted a great victory. Maybe in fifty years, women will achieve a distinct minority in the professional classes. We might have a woman doctor, a woman barrister, and then five or ten of you might form an organization together and shake hands because something has been accomplished.”
Free let out a breath.
“Maybe in a hundred years of women voting, you might manage a single female Prime Minister.” He gave her a rough smile. “But just the one, and even so, people will never take her seriously. If she’s stern, they’ll blame her menstrual cycle. If she smiles, it will be proof that women are not strong enough to lead. That’s what you’re setting yourself up for, Miss Marshall. A lifetime of small wins, of victories that land like lead in your stomach. Your cause may be just. But you’re delusional if you think you can accomplish anything. You’re pitting yourself against an institution that is older than our country, Miss Marshall. It’s so old that we rarely even need speak of it. Rage all you want, Miss Marshall, but you’ll have more success emptying the Thames with a thimble.”
He touched a finger to his forehead in mock salute, as if tipping a hat. As if she’d just departed the land of reality, and he’d wished her a pleasant journey. His words didn’t match his actions, though. He came even closer to her as he spoke, leaning in with every sentence, until he seemed almost on the verge of kissing her.”
― Courtney Milan, The Suffragette Scandal