Painful Quotes

Confronting an irresponsible person is not painful to him; only consequences are.

Mine (story) ain't the scariest, the clearest, the most painful, or the most beautiful. It just happens to be the one that's got it's fingers around my throat.

I don't know a single person who truly seems to bear the mark of God's presence and power in his or her life who hasn't been asked by God to be obedient in a way that was dramatically painful.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.

The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

When it's personal and painful, humble yourself.

Hers was a beauty so pure that it was nearly painful to behold--Athena heading out on a Friday night.

To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

Good writing is remembering detail. Most people want to forget. Don't forget things that were painful or embarrassing or silly. Turn them into a story that tells the truth.

I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

We hurt most who we love the most. Bad grammar, painful truth.

Nothing is more important than to learn how to maintain a life of purpose in the midst of painful adversity.

Waxing was an interesting experience. Not quite as painful as I expected.

Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.

At bottom is the best soil to sow and grow something new again. In that sense, hitting bottom, while extremely painful, is also the sowing ground.

Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

The most painful household accident is wearing socks and stepping on an upturned plug.

We just have to be crystal clear that if we were to abandon all the reforms made over some very painful years in the Labour party, we would be consigned back to opposition.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete. The process is painful - my personal life suffers.

Everything that has happened to me is of value to me. As painful as certain things are, and have been, and were, there's a use for those things in my life and in my work

When you welcome your emotions as teachers, every emotion brings good news, even the ones that are painful.

We can not escape tragic roads. It is like grasping at the sun & trying to catch air. We must take one step at-a-time. Keep going.

His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.

Awareness is a blissful state, not a painful one.

Change is painful. Few people have the courage to seek out change. Most people won’t change until the pain of where they are exceeds the pain of change.

During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

We cannot afford to forget any experience, not even the most painful.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live in every experience, painful or joyous, to live in gratitude for every moment, to live abundantly.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

The downsides of globalization are indeed painful, ... But taking the bigger pills against its ills is superior to living inside a sterile bubble.

But without painful experiences, we dont grow

The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement.

It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful.

I seem to think that anything worth having in life has to be painful to attain.

The harder we look at our aches and ailments, the more we will be startled by the painful truths they are trying to convey about our dangerously disembodied way of life.

It is especially painful when narcissists suffer memory loss because they are losing parts of the person they love most.

Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating. Shyness is inherently painful; introversion is not.

There can be no summary and dramatic end to a marriage - only a slow and painful unravelling of a tangled skein of threads too stubborn to be broken.

Betrayal, in all forms, is painful. It can make you go crazy. But we all have choices on how to deal with it. Do we just go away or stay?

The hardships of forced marches are often more painful than the dangers of battle

Winning the IBF title was the greatest night of my life. To give it up outside the ring is truly painful.

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.