Top 1200 Truth Hurts Quotes & Sayings

The thing that hurts, that became anger, was when I realized that if you tell the truth, in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth, you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.

The truth hurts but it has to be heard.

OK, so truth hurts - but what else does truth do?

Truth never hurts the teller.

The truth is what hurts

Truth hurts. Maybe not as much as jumping on a bicycle with the seat missing, but it hurts.

A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

The truth hurts, and not everyone can deal with it. Every player is different, but they are all entitled to the truth. It is up to them if they can handle it or not.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

In my world, a friend is someone who tells you the truth even when it hurts and keeps it 100% real with you at all times.

Friends are honest with each other. Even if the truth hurts. -Maggie

People always love and respect characters who speak the truth, even if the truth hurts.

I'm neutral on lying, seeing as how there's times when the truth just hurts people.

It hurts and hurts to have him this close. I feel sick with it.

When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.

Let's just say it and be done with it. Racing hurts. But here's another truth: having put in the effort to prepare for a race and then not giving it your all hurts even more. The first kind of hurt goes away in hours or a day. The second kind of hurt can last a lifetime.

I believe that mothers should tell the truth, even - no, especially - when the truth is difficult. It's always easier, and in the short term can even feel right, to pretend everything is okay, and to encourage your children to do the same. But concealment leads to shame, and of all hurts shame is the most painful.

A home life where it's so full of so many rigorous ideas about the way things should be, this word "should," I think is absolutely toxic to children. It hurts their personalities, it hurts their points of view in the world, it hurts their ability to be open and caring and curious. An element of allowance in a family, is, I think, really a positive thing.

The haters can just keep hating but I'm certainly not stopping because of them. But I can't say it doesn't hurt. It hurts a great deal. It hurts very much.

False news hurts everyone. It hurts our community; it hurts us as individuals.

Sometimes it hurts to hear the truth, but you need it.

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.

Sometimes the truth hurts. It hurts because they have a weakness - and I exploit weakness.

The truth hurts. It hurts to some people.

The truth hurts because it's real. It hurts because it mattered. And that's an important thing to acknowledge to yourself.

Always communicate no matter how hard it is to tell someone something's wrong. It's worse not to talk about it. I learn this every few years. The truth hurts for 3 days. Lack of truth hurts your whole life.

Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.

I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.

And it hurts her, but it's an okay hurt, but it hurts still, but it's good, but it hurts.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don’t you?” “Of course I believe in the truth,” said Rhoda, staring. “Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven’t thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one’s illusions.” “I’d rather have it all the same.” said Rhoda. “So would I. But I don’t know that we’re wise.” Mrs. Oliver; Rhoda Dawes

It's really hard for me to beat around the bush or lie, so sometimes the truth hurts.

Truth hurts. But lies can kill.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills. It is better to be hated for telling the truth than to be loved for telling a lie. It is better to stand alone with the truth, than to be wrong with a multitude. It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie. There is only one Gospel.

The whole point about vision is that it's very individual, it's very personal, and it has to be confessional. It has to be something which hurts - the pulling out of it and putting it on the page hurts. Art can be about the individual writer's response to his or her condition, and if that response comes out of a predigested belief about what the audience wants to hear about the writer's condition, then it has no truth, it has no validity. You either write with your own blood or nobody's. Otherwise it's just ink.

You can never maintain a friendship if you don't tell the truth, even if it hurts.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

What I've learned about being angry with people is that it generally hurts you more than it hurts them.

It is better to be divided by truth than to be united in error. It is better to speak the truth that hurts and then heals, than falsehood that comforts and then kills.

Be serious. Life hurts. Reflect what hurts. I don't mean that you can't also be funny, or have fun, but at the end of the day, stories are about what you lose.

Hoarding one's hurts hurts only the hoarder.

It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.

My dad don't like lies. He says it hurts people in the long race. He prefers the truth. That hurts them instantly.

Life hurts at times. It hurts to have a body at times, hurts to be born, hurts to live, hurts to die, but it can be ecstasy beyond comprehension. You can know that ecstasy. It is inside of you.

Oh well, the truth hurts, doesn't it?

My only wish is I die real cause that truth hurts and those lies kill.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

Homophobia hurts our league. Racism hurts it. Sexism hurts it.

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

The truth hurts sometimes, particularly when it involves someone at a low point in their life.

The truth hurts, but those lies heal.

The truth hurts, but silence kills.

We're never called on to do what hurts. We just do what hurts out of ignorance and habit. Once we see what we're doing, we can stop.

The idea of a memoir is to tell the truth. I know that often the truth hurts, but a lie hurts even more.

The defense to slander is the truth, and sometimes the truth hurts.

Losing hurts, it always hurts, and it should hurt.

Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better.

War hurts. It hurts no matter which sides the bombs are falling on.