"Inside the Actors Studio," 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBBtYcK9Jb8
Mayor Gherkin, Chapter 8, p. 120
Source: 2000s, At First Sight (2005)
Context: ... but what I eventually came to understand was that if a woman truly loves you, you can't always expect her to tell the truth. You see, women are more attuned to feelings than men are, and if they're not being truthful, more often than not it's because they think the truth might hurt your feelings. But it doesn't mean they don't love you.
“But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.”
Baba (58)
Source: The Kite Runner (2003)
“Not thinking about a thorn doesn’t make it hurt your foot less.”
Lini
(15 October 1993)
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
“You’re a dead man,” Kyle said. “Warren doesn’t take kindly to people who hurt me.”
Source: Frost Burned
“It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret its happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.”
Hays translation
VII, 14
Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book VII
“The truth hurts
and lie's worse.”
Broken Strings
Song lyrics, Undiscovered (James Morrison album) (2006)
“The truth is there ain’t no relationship in the world that doesn’t hit turbulence.”
Source: This Is How You Lose Her
