Painful Quotes

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.

Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Sometimes painful things can teach us lessons that we didn't think we needed to know.

Silence is terrible and painful only to those who have said all and have nothing more to speak of; but to those who never had anything to say— to them silence is simple and easy.

The future is easy because it doesn’t exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Learning to play golf is like learning to play the violin. It's not only difficult to do, it's very painful to everyone around you.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

I prefer a painful truth over any blissful fantasy.

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

Having a baby is painful in order to show how serious a thing life is.

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.

It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

We should not forget, no matter how we quantify it: 'Freedom is not free.' It is a painful lesson, but one from which we have learned in the past and one we should never forget.

It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!

Don't lie to me. Don't deceive me. Give me the truth. Even if it breaks me. A painful truth is better than a pleasant lie.

You need to remember who God is, forget the painful wounds and let Him renew you.

It is unbearably painful for the soul to love silently.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

It’s too bad that stupidity isn’t painful.

Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. And your mind will punish you for believing both.

The processes of teaching the child that everything cannot be as he wills it are apt to be painful both to him and to his teacher.

Dreams are not easy. Dreams are painful. They force work and commitment. They are challenging and motivating.

It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.

It will be difficult, even painful, but democracy will prevail in Russia. There will be no dictatorship, although relapses into authoritarianism are possible.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.

A competitive athlete is painful to look at; trying hard to become an animal rather than a man, he will never be as fast as a cheetah or as strong as an ox.

Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure.

It's not easy to run a marathon, I know it will be painful but when I start it, I know I'm going to finish it

But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

In my world, everything has the potential to be funny. Joyful things, painful things... It's all about how you view it and if you're able to take an objective stance on the situation.

One of life's most painful moments comes when we must admit that we didn't do our homework, that we are not prepared.

It's always painful when you're writing memoirs because you've got to go through the dark places, but it gives you a chance to find out the person you really are, not the person you thought you were.

It is painful for me to see when criminal elements of all kinds fire from my weapon.

But the upside of painful knowledge is so much greater than the downside of blissful ignorance.