Painful Quotes

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I watched him, and I watched him die, and it was so painful for me, because I really loved Freddie Mercury, the way that he just truly went with his voice.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

Grace changes us and change is painful".

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

I do a good job of blocking painful, unnecessary things from my memory.

What we have to discover is that there is no safety, that seeking is painful, and that when we imagine that we have found it, we don’t like it.

I more remember the periods of time when I wasn't getting any auditions. That's more what I find painful in memory; that feeling of not even getting the chance to try and be rejected.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

When you are in the grips of low self-esteem, it’s painful, and it certainly doesn’t feel like pride. But I believe that this is the dark, quieter side of pride — thwarted pride.

It is obviously quite difficult to be no longer loved when we are still in love, but it is incomparably more painful to be loved when we ourselves no longer love.

Separation is painful, and there's such a thing as doing it too much - the limits are how much it hurts.

I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.

We all talk about how much we hate lies. Yet we prefer, so often, to be lied to....because it allows us to dodge all those painful truths we'd rather not hear.

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy.

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident."

Worry itself is one of the most painful conditions.

That's painful always to lose.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

Alzheimer's is a devastating disease. It was painful for me and my family to watch my grandfather deteriorate. We must find a cure for this horrible disease.

Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Jealousy is a painful passion; yet without some share of it, the agreeable affection of love has difficulty to subsist in its full force and violence.

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes.

The truth is like a scalpel. The truth is painful.

Do you know how painful it is to tell someone you love him and not hear him say it back?

I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.

Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.

I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.

Ronald Reagan, of course, was a Republican governor of California who went through a painful defeat in the 1976 presidential race before winning four years later

There is never vulgarity in a whole truth, however commonplace. It may be unimportant or painful. It cannot be vulgar. Vulgarity is only in concealment of truth, or in affectation.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.

Love is love, no matter who you fall in love with, love is love, it can be painful, it can be wonderful.

I keep letting you back in. How can I explain myself? As painful as this thing has been, I just can't be with no one else.

What annoyances are more painful than those of which we cannot complain?

Shame is very painful to endure. For me it makes perfect sense that the character would kill herself.

I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.

Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.

You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?

It is so difficult to, day in and day out, hear these incredibly painful stories of the destructive nature of our broken immigration system.

I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I'd get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful.