100+ Brutally Honest Truth Quotes You Need to Hear

All I do is lie, and that has made me immune to compliments.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

Death is unstoppable. One must face it as a fact of life

At first, they'll only dislike what you say, but the more correct you start sounding the more they'll dislike you.

Never hide things from hardcore thinkers. They get more aggravated, more provoked by confusion than the most painful truths.

Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.

It's not about going around trying to stir up trouble. As long as you're honest and you articulate what you believe to be true, somebody somewhere will become your enemy whether you like it or not.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it’s made out of. Nothin else.

[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

Honest is how I want to look. The truth doesn't glitter and shine.

The truth is, immigrants tend to be more American than people born here.

What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.What are brief? today and tomorrow.What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.What are deep? the ocean and truth.

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.