Painful Quotes

Being tall and big was probably more painful than being black.

The painful things seemed like knots on a beautiful necklace, necessary for keeping the beads in place.

As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.

Though I knew I shouldn’t have cared, the words still hurt like pinches, and pinches can be very painful when done in the same place many times in a row.

I wish I could say someone taught me my mental toughness, it would have been a lot less painful.

Revolution, the substitution of one social system for another, has always been a struggle, a painful and a cruel struggle, a life and death struggle.

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each time experiencing the same distress and shame.

It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict: our hair couldn't be permed or straightened. So I just cut it all off.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn’t want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

The artist ought to know that a thousand painful deaths always lead into greater life.

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free.

If you have a choice of selling shoes to ladies or giving birth to a flaming porcupine... look into that second, less painful career.

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.

Readjusting is a painful process, but most of us need it at one time or another.

But if I didn't read, I'd think, and thinking, when you come down to it, is the most painful thing of all, and the most monopolizing

the thing about pessimism is that in most cases it's nothing more than a front behind which a body can hide its most sweetful yet painful hopes. please forgive mine.

Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.

Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.

Fine artists deal with finery, but I deal with painful material.

Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Never gaining a good reputation is not nearly as painful as losing one.

Live what you love, and love what you live. Anything less is a painful and frustrating waste of your precious time.

Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it.

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Emotional attachment to Maya is totally painful, this is a bad bargain.

It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

Seeking but not finding the house builder I travelled through life after life. How painful is repeated birth! House-builders, you have now been seen. You will not build the house again.

However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.

There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.

When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everythings OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.

Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

Growth can be painful, change can be painful but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow it only empties today of it strengths

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

You can't really make something or make a movie and feel all through the process that it's a painful thing. It's not possible to do that.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky.