Painful Quotes

Criticism is a painful pill to swallow, but it always makes you better.

This writing wasn't painful. It was like being high.

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

It was almost painful, I thought, to have a heart so swollen with gratitude and what must have been pure, untainted happiness. I wanted to live inside the feeling forever.

Our painful experiences strengthen us in becoming more empathetic, more caring, and deeper human beings. We grow in depth of understanding, with greater appreciation for the miracle of life.

Foolishness is indeed painful, and verily so is youth, but more painful by far than either is being obliged in another person's house.

Great leaders are those who are able to look reality in the face, however painful it may be, and deal with it.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

Bad grammar is the leading cause of slow, painful death in North America.

It's very painful for us to feel we deserve a life. That's the toughest thing. That we deserve to have a life. That can take a lifetime.

Why do we wear them? They're so painful.

It's funny: All my friends back home are always wondering why every television show I'm on is a drama, but all the comedy pilots I did died a slow and painful death.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.

Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful.

No matter how painful your past has been, you have made it through.

I grew up in a family where, through my teenage years, I was expected to go to church on Sunday. It wasn't terribly painful.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

Be glad in the Lord and receive willingly from His Hand all that he designs for my holiness - both painful and pleasant.

I know change can be painful. But from change comes growth.

It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

The path to solid, supportive, healthy relationships, self-respect, and a quality life starts with the usually painful decision to do the Right Thing.

It is painful to recall a past intensity, to estimate your distance from the Belsen heap, to make your peace with numbers. Just to get up each morning is to make a kind of peace.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

To Remember Is Painful, To Forget Is Impossible.

Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.

The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Like most people, I have painful memories of trying to fit in as a child. I wore, said, and did pretty much what everyone else did.

Everything was simple, physical, painful, exalting. The world consisted of the four elements - land and water, firepower and distancing air.

Not only does he hate me, and want to kill me, he no longer believes I'm human. It was less painful being strangled.

It is very painful to love someone and believe you cannot be with them.

I handle emotional pain by trying to understand that it's going to be painful and to allow for it instead of fighting it. Doesn't make it any easier, though.

Handling a painful situation in a comedic way is truly the funniest. That is extremely real to me and not kind of clownish. There is a thin line though; you can't overdo it.

Depression...so mysteriously painful and elusive.

We bury things so deep we no longer remember there was anything to bury. Our bodies remember. Our neurotic states remember. But we don't.

Every bond is a bond to sorrow.

Any painful experience makes you see things differently. It also reminds you of the simple truths that we purposely forget every day or else we would never get out of bed.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained

Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

Nobody can ever be fully prepared to deal with a new, painful situation. Sometimes I react with patience and sometimes I react by doing something impulsive. But I always learn from such experiences.