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Ugly Truths Quotes

Quotes tagged as "ugly-truths" Showing 1-30 of 38
Jojo Moyes
“There is always a way out of a situation. Might be ugly. Might leave you feeling like the earth had gone and shifted under your feet. But there is always a way around.”
Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

Miyamoto Musashi
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is.
And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
Miyamoto Musashi

Paulo Coelho
“There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”
Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

François de La Rochefoucauld
“Our virtues are most frequently but vices disguised.”
Duc De La Francois Rochefoucauld

Anthony Liccione
“A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.”
Anthony Liccione

Toba Beta
“The more you know, the less you understand.
That's so cliche'. Wanna know the scary version?
The more you know, the more fuckups you find.
That's what really makes you even less understand.”
Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

Ray Bradbury
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls, because they are screaming at me. I can't talk to my wife, because she listens to the walls.”
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“لم أكن أعرف كيف أكون أي شيء! لم أستطع أن أكون حقودًا أو طيب القلب، ولا نذلًا أو أمينًا، ولا بطلًا أو حشرة. إنني أعيش حياتي الآن في هذه الزاوية، مهينًا نفسي بمواساة حاقدة غير مجدية تتمثل في قولي لها: " ﺇﻥ ﺍﻟﺫﻜ� � ﻴﻤﻜﻨ� ﺃﻥ ﻴﻜﻭﻥ ﺸﻴﺌﺎ ﺨﻁﻴﺭًا، وﺃﻥ ﺍﻷﺤﻤ� ﻭﺤﺩﻩ ، ﻫﻭ الذي ﻴﻤﻜﻨ� ﺃﻥ ﻴﻜﻭﻥ ﺃﻱ ﺸﻲ.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.”
Anonymous

“Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. Humanity will never move forward, spiritually or morally, to become superior beings.”
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Curtis Tyrone Jones
“It's funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.”
Curtis Tyrone Jones

Douglas Coupland
“Look, Neal, Hawaii is not some magical pixie wonderland; it’s an American state populated by atomic weapons, a remnant native population and people too stupid to spell their way out of a paper bag. Most of them came here to escape pathetic lives in the forty nine other states, so in some sense, Hawaii is a scenic cul-de-sac filled with people who want to drink themselves to death without feeling judged.”
Douglas Coupland, Worst. Person. Ever.

Munia Khan
“Truth will keep on telling the truth
Lies will lie to be more uncouth
No more rainbow after the storm
Nowhere to escape leaving the norm”
Munia Khan

Ali Hazelwood
“I wanted to stop feeling as though I were rotting in my own aimlessness, and I wanted my head to stop spinning all the time.”
Ali Hazelwood, Below Zero

Chuck Palahniuk
“Cassie Wright's largest audience, the only part of her audience still growing, is composed of sixteen-to-twenty-five-year-old men. These men buy her backlist movies, her plastic breast relics and pocket vaginas, but not for any erotic purpose. They collect the blow-up sex surrogates and signature lingerie as some form of religious relics. Souvenirs of the real mother, the perfect mother they never had. Frankenstein parts or religious totems of the mother they'll spend the rest of their lives trying to find -who'll praise them enough, support them enough, love them enough.”
Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff

Nicky Verd
“As far as I am concern, there are no ugly faces. There are only ugly minds, ugly hearts and ugly souls”
Nicky Verd

John Joclebs Bassey
“Love is often called ‘a beautiful thing�, yet it leaves ugly scars behind.”
John Joclebs Bassey, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

Salman Aziz
“We live kind of society where people scold you for wearing crop clothes. But for their own pleasure and entertainment this society tears your clothes apart to see your naked body. Even the society forces you to strip down your clothes for their hidden satisfaction. But in front of all they just say you are so nasty.”
Salman Aziz

Kamini Arichandran
“We must be too busy—to get ugly.”
Kamini Arichandran

Kapil  Raj
“We think beauty is often dazzling, that it is perfect. With time, we understand that beauty is calm, it gives serenity than excitement. Just holding together what you are is more beautiful than pretending what you are not.”
Kapil Raj, Kuroopa

Paulo Coelho
“Todo el mundo es así; hablan como si lo supiesen todo, y si osas preguntar, no saben nada,”
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Paulo Coelho
“Todo el mundo es así; hablan como si supiesen todo, y si osas preguntar, no saben nada.”
Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“أكن أعرف كيف أكون أي شيء! لم أستطع أن أكون حقودًا أو طيب القلب، ولا نذلًا أو أمينًا، ولا بطلًا أو حشرة. إنني أعيش حياتي الآن في هذه الزاوية، مهينًا نفسي بمواساة حاقدة غير مجدية تتمثل في قولي لها: : ﺇﻥ ﺍﻟﺫﻜ� � ﻴﻤﻜﻨ� ﺃﻥ ﻴﻜﻭﻥ ﺸﻴﺌﺎ ﺨﻁﻴﺭًا، وﺃﻥ ﺍﻷﺤﻤ� ﻭﺤﺩﻩ ، ﻫﻭ الذي ﻴﻤﻜﻨ� ﺃﻥ ﻴﻜﻭﻥ ﺃﻱ ﺸﻲ.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

Salman Aziz
“A real actor can’t love anyone. Cause he/she only pretends to be lover. Cause he/she still in the role of a lover and doesn’t know how to love someone for the real.”
Salman Aziz

Salman Aziz
“Finding someone’s weakness only can make you strongest in the earth but not inside you. And someday you can be in the worst situation when someone found your biggest weakness. That day you will be left with regression. Nothing can change back!”
Salman Aziz

Salman Aziz
“With too much ego, one can be a bitter person. But without that anyone can be better person.”
Salman Aziz

Romain Gary
“...Fields told himself furiously that the humanists and humanitarians of all casts were undoubtedly the last and most arrogant aristocrats, that they never learned anything and always forgot everything They went into ecstasies over the splendor of nature, refused to be discouraged or to give up, and went on believing in liberty and humanity in spite of the evidence of forced labor camps and nationalistic hatred, of fear and cruelty and betrayal around them. They went on dreaming of freedom and of the rights of man, refusing to face the fact that their disappearance, like the disappearance of the elephants, was an irreversible process, the price paid by mankind for a new, modem and ruthlessly efficient world.”
Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

Soroosh Shahrivar
“She starts thinking how the city’s peaceful aura withers and gives birth to its decrepit personality.”
Soroosh Shahrivar, Tajrish

Allene vanOirschot
“Society will flood you with shallow beauty; stay pretty on the inside.”
Allene vanOirschot, I TALKED TO GOD TODAY: 4 Week Devotional Prayer Journal Pain, Suffering and Daily Living

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