It is presumptuous to draw conclusions about a person from what one has heard
I am afraid I shall disappoint people's expectations dreadfully.
I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.
Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion
One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
It is painful to see someone suffering what you must be suffering- watching someone you love be so cruelly hurt.