Painful Quotes

Having Reyes so near is painful. I think it has apoplexy." "Do you even know what that means?" "No, but it sounds serious. Like Ebola. Or hives

There were a handful of shows that were just painful. Not many, but things where I just said going into it, "Why am I here? What am I doing?"

The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.

Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour, must needsbe delightful and rejoicing.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the initially painful and ultimately comforting process of finding it.

What makes defeat so painful is just the awareness that the other has won. It hurts to lose because it feels so good to win.

Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.

I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

Creatively, editing was the most painful part of the process for me.

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses.

All who have their reward on Earth, the fruits Of painful superstition and blind zeal, Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find Fit retribution, empty as their deeds.

This is painful and it will be for a long time.

To be lied about, to be slandered, to be smeared so publicly, and before your family that you love, is very painful.

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

Break ups are painful, but if initiated at the right time can fuel one's sense of optimism.

Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.

You don't sign up for a divorce when you get married. It's very painful. But it's taught me a great deal about myself.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

Loss is very painful, because any kind of loss leaves a hole in the fabric of one's existence.

The light is too painful for someone who wants to remain in darkness.

Let's just say it was damn hard [to make the Hangover]. I've got the bumps and bruises to show for it. It's funny because things that don't even look that bad on screen were still extremely painful.

The conversation around policing is painful but I believe it provides us with an opportunity to learn, to change and to grow.

And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain.

A stress on the system and I think a painful thing for many young poets who are looking to find a life in poetry that they're not going to be able to find.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

Imagine trying to relive your worst break-up, your worst fight, the most painful death of a loved one, and just really relive it step by step, and bring it up and apply it to the scene you're in.

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

I'm one of those low-maintenance people - let's get it done and get going. It's not that painful to wax, but... I don't have time for it - just give me the razor.

I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

It's always better to go personal and painful than to go big.

I am an audiophile. It's almost like a virus. I'm completely crazy about the quality of sound. It's interesting and painful at the same time; you have to really spend a lot of money on the equipment.

The life of men is painful.

I think personally it's not good for anyone - I don't think infidelity leads to happiness. It's painful for the person being cheated on, but also for the person who's cheating.

The violence done us by others is often less painful than that which we do to ourselves.

Preserving the serious health condition is usually painful.

I find it ironic to read stories about myself which have never occurred and are simply so absurd that they are comical. At other times, it is very painful to be so misinterpreted and vilified.

Humor enables us to deal with and overcome many of the most painful and difficult situations in our lives.

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

Ecstasy can be painful when it's intense enough, when the kundalini surges enough. The ecstasy is so complete, it's overwhelming sometimes.

It is much nicer to live in perfect mind, free from pain and agony. How painful it is to be unenlightened. Buddha called it "the nightmare of the day."

It takes just such painful and terrible things to occur for the great emancipation to take place.

What is the ape to man? A laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment. And just that shall man be for the superman: a laughing-stock or a painful embarrassment.

Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.

But I've never considered myself any kind of heartthrob. It sounds painful.

The politeness was painful. I wanted to push through it, to return to the glow of the night of the concert, but I was unsure of how to get back there.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

You have to respect people's suffering. To deny that the world is unfair and painful for most of the people living in it would be false and judgmental.

Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity.