36 Quotes About Hard-truths

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has...

There are many forms of tyrants, but there are none so terrible as those stifling their own people in the name of freedom.

Mum liked to say that some things happen for a reason, that sometimes obstacles were there to stop you from doing something stupid.

Memories were short and history unkind. It was the way of the world.

He is a stone, incapable of feeling anything, and I don't like being reminded that he's also human. I don't like to be reminded that we love the same person.

Love is no inoculation against murder.

Life after love was possible. I was proof. Loss taught you about yourself, burrowed in the dark parts of your soul and ate you from the inside out.

I can't find a man I want, and I'm beginning to think the problem is me. Maybe I expect too much. Maybe I'm holding out for something that doesn't even exist." She'd voiced her secret fear. Maybe grand passion was just a dream. With all the kissing she'd done in the past few months, she'd not once been overcome with desire. Her parents certainly hadn't had any great passion between them. Come to think of it, she wasn't sure she'd ever seen grand passion outside of a movie theater or a book.

When you took a man's job away from him, his ability to feed and clothe his family, that man was going to get angry.