Full Idea
The truth hurts because it destroys a belief: not in itself.
Gist of Idea
The pain in truth is when it destroys a belief
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Unpublished Notebooks 1881-82 [1882], 9[48])
A Reaction
There are hideous events, about which it can be dreadful to learn the truth, but the unpleasantness is in the fact, not in the truth of the fact. So, yes.
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'The Joyful Science, and 1881-82 fragments (v 6)', ed/tr. Del Caro,Adrian [Stanford 2023], p.322