“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)
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American author and essayist 1927–1989Related quotes
“Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy.”
Carl Sagan
(1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
“Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths.”
Les doutes sont fâcheux plus que toute autre chose.
Act III, sc. v
Le Misanthrope (1666)
“Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.”
Ludwig Börne
(1786–1837) German writer
Variant: Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
Gabriel García Márquez
(1927–2014) Colombian writer
[The Autumn of the Patriarch, 2006 [1976], HarperCollins, 978-0-06-088286-0, 254] translated from El Ontoño del Patriarica (1975) by Gregory Rabassa
“Well, perhaps; but I begin to think there are better things than being comfortable.”
Source: At the Back of the North Wind