A Quote by Roxane Gay

Truth can hurt so very much.

Roxane Gay

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Roxane Gay
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An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

John Steinbeck

But compassion is a deeper thing that waits beyond the tension of choosing sides. Compassion, in practice, does not require us to give up the truth of what we feel or the truth of our reality. Nor does it allow us to minimize the humanity of those who hurt us. Rather, we are asked to know ourselves enough that we can stay open to the truth of others, even when their truth or their inability to live up to their truth has hurt us.

Mark Nepo

Lies that do not hurt, which are different from lies that protect oneself or hurt another person. That is not my business. But the truth is mostly very boring, and you can help it along with lies. There is no harm in that.

Gunter Grass

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Dick Vermeil

The truth doesn't hurt. Whatever it is, it doesn't hurt. It's better to know the truth.

Ricky Gervais

The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.

Tammara Webber

Get used to dealing with failure as long as it doesn't hurt people around you, as long as it doesn't hurt you physically, or it doesn't hurt you so much that you can't pick yourself up.

Dean Kamen

Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth is it hurts too much not to love you.

P. C. Cast

It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

Ben Bradlee

Once you find the truth, no one can hurt you. You can let them off the hook. That is hard! Until then, keep distance, preserve the peace. Eventually it’s like you weren’t hurt.

Erich Schiffmann

Truth has scarce done so much good in the world as the false appearances of it have done hurt.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Nobody has the right to put another under such a difficulty that he must either hurt the person by telling the truth or hurt himself by telling what is not true.