Brutal Honesty Quotes

“Lies don't end relationships the truth does.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“Waking up breaks my heart.
Getting dressed breaks my arms.
Joining the crowd breaks my legs.
Letting someone in...does me in.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Darkness Plays Favorites

“He comes.
And he comes
loaded
with noise pollution.
If I ever prayed for anything,
it was for a man
to shut up.”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Darkness Plays Favorites

“The only time I want someone's opinion is when I ask for it. Reason why I don't ask for anyone's opinion nowadays is because they are too afraid, they always cover the truth with a lie, which is something I hate tremendously. When I ask for your opinion; I want full brutal honesty, face on, outright! Not a lot of people can do that, which is sad, very sad indeed...”
― Nisa Jolly

“If the truth brings chaos, then let there be chaos.”
― Khayri R.R. Woulfe

“How much does it cost to treat leprosy? One $3 dose of antibiotic will cure a mild case; a $20 regimen of three antibiotics will cure a more severe case. The World Health Organization even provides the drugs free,
but India‘s health care infrastructure is not good enough to identify the afflicted and get them the
medicine they need.

So, more than 100,000 people in India are horribly disfigured by a disease that costs $3 to cure.
That is what it means to have a per capita GDP of $2,900.”
― Charles Wheelan, Naked Economics: Undressing the Dismal Science

“To be brutally truthful, the removal of your noodle from seeking other people’s futile approval to be you, is one of the most beautiful steps to flight, where wings flap to freedom from so many deadly traps.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“It’s usually not a good idea to put the truth speaker of the tribe on speakerphone.”
― Anthon St. Maarten

“Once an excuse has been deployed, brutal honesty is no longer an option.”
― Linda Berdoll, The Darcys: New Pleasures

“Feigned interest is worse than brutal honesty.”
― Stewart Stafford

“You know the real reason unwinding keeps going strong, Miss Risa Ward? It isn't because of the parts we want for ourselves--it's because of the things we're willing to do to save our children. Imagine that. We're willing to sacrifice the children we don't love for the ones we do. And we call ourselves civilized!”
― Neal Shusterman, UnSouled

“Patience Thinner by Stewart Stafford

You are a pain in the pancreas,
Dagger in my medulla oblongata,
The hindmost listing straggler,
In the mind's eye's neural regatta.

The second wheel of a unicycle,
The third eye blind of a cyclops,
Banana skin for a monkey's uncle,
And a barber to overgrown mops

You are thermals in a heatwave,
An umbrella when the rain stops,
A quiet tailor in a nudist camp,
And shoe polish for flip-flops.

© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Critic vent spleen to eviscerate the more competent.”
― Stewart Stafford

“He stepped back. “Sometimes I think this world would be a better place without us humans in it.”
― Becky Moynihan, Adaptive

“He says he's in love with her," I said.

"He told you this?" said Arthur.

"Yes," I said.

"Why did he tell you this?" said Arthur.”
― Nora Ephron, Heartburn