Painful Quotes

Saving was slow and painful.

Where has change ever been clean and nice? It has always been messy and painful.

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch some guy who just totally sucks.

Identify your painful thought, question it, and wake yourself up. No one else can.

I think a lot of us can relate to not choosing to face a painful memory, and something that's a painful past, and wanting to pretend like it never happened.

Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.

He died a long painful death. However, you'll be happy to hear that just a few years later he was reincarnated as Shirley MacLaine.

I think people think celebrities get babies really easily, like Angelina Jolie, but they don't hear about the ones who aren't successful because we don't like talking about it, it's too painful.

I can think of few things more painful than naming four good things about yourself in front of a room of journalists!

If we [are to] reach a situation of true peace, real peace, peace for generations, we will have to make painful concessions. Not in exchange for promises, but rather in exchange for peace.

How many times already had I encountered the painful lesson that although we may wish for the barb to be pulled from our flesh, it leaves a welt that doesn't heal?

It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a people whose language and manners are different from one's own.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

I have noticed bakers with swelled hands, and painful, too; in fact the hands of all such workers become much thickened by the constant pressure of kneading the dough.

It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

I don't want to care. If I care about things, it'll just be worse, it'll just be another thing to worry about. It's less painful if I don't care.

The most painful and jealously guarded secrets are perhaps the ones that everyone around us knows. Stupid tragedies. Useless tears.

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

Years have passed since I have set foot in a comedy club. If the comic is doing badly it's painful, and if the comic is doing brilliantly, it's extremely painful.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

When people are struggling, thats a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.

I’ve been feeling something else. Like I’m about to be sucked into something powerful and painful.

In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

It is so painful watching yourself act, particularly because you can't do anything about it, it's all done and dusted.

The important question is whether [a theory] is true, not whether envisioning an alternative is too intellectually painful to bear.

Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

One of the most painful aspects of suffering is the loneliness of it. Others may offer support or empathy, but no one can walk the road to Moriah in our place.

There is nothing more painful in the world than Aly when she makes her big eyes. She makes her big hurt eyes, there's nothing you can do. She just kills you.

Painful life is brutal and painless life is superficial.

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own.

As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

Love is the greatest healing power I know. Love can heal even the deepest and most painful memories because love brings the light of understanding to the darkest corners of our hearts and minds.

To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.

For, just as in the beginning it is formed by desire, so afterwards love is kept in existence only by painful anxiety.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

I don't like working - I just like having done the end product. The process, I like to make it quick and painful.

The sun will shine again. No matter... how painful and hard the rain may beat down on me.

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots

Well: the day is a poem but too much Like one of Jeffers's, crusted with blood and barbaric omens Painful to excess, inhuman as a hawk's cry.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

Intellectual beauty is sufficient unto itself, and only for it rather than for the future good of humanity does the scholar condemn himself to arduous and painful labors.

Racism is very painful. That's life. It never ends.

A Dark Night is a mental and emotional state of despair that arises when something is so painful that it blots out all other considerations and makes carrying on as usual out of the question.

The one thing I think you must do is, as painful as it is as a parent, is listen.